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2023. My first day of retirement will be September 1, 2023.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
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first started working for the SEO Service Center in 1986. At that time, it was named the Southeastern Ohio Regional Library Center. I was hired as
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help when the library began their automation project. I and five other local college students were hired to barcode the collection and add the item information to the new online catalog. I worked the next summer also as we didn’t finish adding all 200,000+
items to the catalog the previous summer.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
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October of 1987, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">I was hired as a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">part-time</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> library
assistant providing automation maintenance and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">technical
</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">support for the consortium libraries.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> One
responsibility was to download the bookmobile circulation from floppy disk</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> to
the library catalog. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">Weekly
</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">I backed up the database on large tapes. The tapes were larger than a VHS tape. We stored a full copy of the database
in the safe at the local bank.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> The</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> database</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> hard
drives </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">at that time were so heavy, it took two men to lift them into the racks.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> They
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1989-90, I applied for a full-time position in the bookmobile department as a Reader’s Assistant and back up
</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">B</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">ookmobile
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</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">I met so many wonderful people traveling in the rural countryside. We served the following counties: Noble, Perry,
Washington, Monroe, Harrison, Belmont, and occasionally filled in for the Guernsey County bookmobile.
</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">I worked in this position until 2000. At that time, the library reduced the staffing on the bookmobiles to 1 person.
Moving back into the library, I worked in Shipping and Receiving</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">. This area</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> was
growing because of our increased number of consortium libraries</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> and our commitment to resource sharing and statewide
delivery. I was an original “Cargo Queen.” Valeria Whetstone and I traveled the state staging best practices presentations for shipping library materials.
</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">Using our best British accents, o</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">ur
creative approach made learning about cargo fun</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">,
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2001 the State Library decided to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">end</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> the
bookmobile service. The remaining drivers were moved to the Shipping and Receiving Department, and I was moved to Automation/Cataloging. My main focus was
</span><span class="ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">copy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> cataloging</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">,
catalog maintenance, and providing catalog training to consortium library staff</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">.
</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">I loved getting my hands on the new materials and inhaling the scent of new books.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.425px; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></p>
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the library began the process of transferring our catalog</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> from the Horizon platform</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> to
another SirsiDynix product. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">Knowing there</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> would
be over 1,200 consortium staff needing training on the new product, the library created a position devoted to training. I moved into this role
</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">and took off running. I worked with SirsiDynix to train other leaders in the consortium to assist with migration
training. We went live on the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">S</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">irsiDynix
Symphony platform in the Spring of 2012. Since then, I have continued to provide in-person and online training. I create and maintain training videos on YouTube and Niche Academy. I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">’ve</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> help</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">ed</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> maintain
our online documentation and train new </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">libraries</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW116771351 BCX0 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> joining
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