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Finding Work ~ Life Balance, How We Did It #NaBloPoMo
Making family time is important for me. How do you balance your children, relationship and work life? ~ Ricki Lake {Guest Prompt} I won’t lie, when we lived in Pennsylvania, finding balance was hard. Everyone was operating on their own schedules ~ the hubs was working overtime, the kids were involved in different activities and I was working evenings and weekends. There were weeks when I saw my kids maybe 15 or 20 minutes a week and the hubs even less. My home life was basically falling apart. But we were doing what we had to do in order to survive. Raise your hand if you know what that’s like.…
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Library Day in the Life Round 6 Reflection
First of all, I’d like to thank Bobbi at Librarian by Day for putting the Library Day in the Life Project together. The first time I participated in this meme was back in 2008 when I was blogging at Curious Child’s Library Wanderings. I remember I was able to keep track of everyone’s posts and comment here and there, this year whew it has been crazy! Now I know why, according to Bobbi’s reflection post there were just under 250 people signed up on the wiki and about 800 participants on Twitter. That is wild! Congratulations, Bobbi, you should be proud of what you’ve done. I learned so much from reading…
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Library Day in the Life Round 6
I’m the Evening Technical and Public Services Librarian at the Miller Library at Keystone College, a private, co~educational college in La Plume, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1868, Keystone College was the first institution of higher learning in Northeast Pennsylvania. I’ve worked here for about 4 months now and I really do enjoy it. The staff is small, only 6 people, so there are a lot of opportunities to spread our wings and be creative with providing services for our students. Right now my major projects involve getting our students connected with us through Facebook and Twitter. I think the biggest stumbling block may be advertising. Even though we have a board with…
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Library Day in the Life Project Round 6
The 6th round of the Library Day in the Life Project is hosted by Bobbi at Librarian by Day and will begin on Monday, 24 January. I look forward to sharing my experiences with you all and reading about the lives of my fellow librarians. My hope is that by participating in this project that you all will see how vital library services are to your communities and that you will step forward and allow your voices to be heard when government officials consider slashing services. Flickr ~ pictures from participants in the Library Day in the Life Project Wiki ~ a list of all of the Library Day in…
