While everyone is on vacation ...

[kinzel]

Sigh, I guess it can be told...

due to my longterm interest in public service, public safety, and in
public information, I expect to be sworn in, before January, as ...

a Library Trustee for Winslow Public Library.

Yep ... in Maine, that's an elected position with a three year term, and I am duly elected to it.

Guess you can take the boy out of the library but you can't take the library out of the boy...

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Assuming that's sworn in, not sworn at *g*. I did wonder when you said that you were voting for yourself what you were standing as. What does the job entail?

(In the UK it isn't a public holiday. Yesterday was Remembrance Day, the Sunday closest to (and this year the same as) Armistice Day, but we don't get an extra day off for it.)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Whew! That's a relief. I was afraid you were running for Selectman. If you turned politician, I'd have to rethink our friendship...

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Yay!:) Hurray for people who guard the libraries!

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

So, as a Library Trustee, are you a patron who is responsible for enforcing rules upon the other patrons?

[jilltanith.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[damara.livejournal.com]

congratulations!

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

This is much closer to being on a board of directors than to being a security guard.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

yah ... I could see that. You're safe.

[lornastutz.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your election.
Also, received the Companion 2 - nice cover. Great sotires as always.
Lorna

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Wow --

we're getting a lot of credit for the work Tom Peters did with his super cover art --- I guess I should point out that Hugo folks (that's all readers/fans who take part in the worldcon process) can nominate Tom for pro artist... he's not seen very often, but he *is* good. Or point the cover out to folks involved with the ASFA awards and such...

as for the election ... thanks. Libraries *are* close to my heart, after all, and if I can help, I should.

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. May your library be popular and well-funded.

[gryphonlsb.livejournal.com]

Grats

Excellent

[edgreenberg.livejournal.com]

A noble calling. Both for an author and a reader.

Does you library have an of your books in it? Mine does. In fact, this whole affair with the Liaden Universe started for me when I found Partners in Necessity in the Campbell branch of the Santa Clara County Library. Had I but known :)

Thank you for your service to your community and, by extension, to our larger community of readers, worldwide.

[sraun]

Dancing Rodents!

[debmats.livejournal.com]

Congratulations Steve!

Your library is very lucky to have you!!!

[jodel54.livejournal.com]

I wish you a more tranquil stint as library trustee than mine has been.

In March I was elected trustee of our library here in NH and the next day the library director resigned. (No, it wasn't related.) We're on our second round of interviews for a new director, as the two people who were offered the job in the first round turned us down.

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!
I knew you were running for something, I just didn't know what.
Is WPL funded by the surrounding communities? Must be, right? Otherwise, how can you live in ** and still serve?

I am sure you will be a great asset to the board!

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

They actually swear you in with a little ceremony and everything? Wow, I had no idea.

You look pretty trustee to me, so this should be good for the Winslow Public Library. And I haven't even met you (in real life :-)

Great news. May you make all your board meetings betray their name by being interesting.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I'll be sworn in. The process has so far included filling out nomination papers, (wherein I had to swear to serve if elected), getting the requisite number of signatures on a nomination petition, and even -- to some small extent -- some glad-handing.

I suspect (given the density of readers and library users among them) that our ongoing interactions with the local Unitarian, Pagan, and arts community (whoa ... UniPag Artists Unite!)helped. It also helped that I understood the 107 Factor. That is, the local convenience store is a great place to get petition signatures. The first person I ran into there while getting signatures on my petition was a woman who had served as Library Trustee (first in the 1960s and later to fill out a term) and whose father had been a trustee... and who didn't know me. I was grilled on my background, and she not only signed, she asked where she could find my books....

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! When are you planning to reorganize the Library Police?