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Hello everyone,
First things first, on behalf of the entire Saskatchewan Library Association, I want to send our congratulations and well-wishes to the departing Lynn Penner as she steps down from her role as Communications & Research Coordinator to welcome the birth of her first child. Lynn has done amazing work in her time with the SLA office, and played a big part in the preparation and delivery of this year’s Saskatchewan Libraries Conference. All the best, Lynn!
We are also thrilled to welcome Yasmin Dar to the SLA as our new Communications & Research Coordinator; this edition of the SLAte Newsletter that you hold in your hands right now – if you’re reading this on a computer, please gently grip the monitor with your hands so I don’t have to redraft this sentence – is the first issue that she’s put together, and we look forward with excitement to her contributions to come. (She may encounter people calling her ‘the new Lynn’ for a while, though hopefully not for too long; we still get visitors to PNLS Headquarters calling me ‘the new Audrey’ every now and then, and that switchover was about eight years ago now.) Welcome aboard, Yasmin!
Speaking of welcoming, the SLA Mentorship Pilot Program is now open to all SLA Individual Members! Offering both mentor/mentee and peer-to-peer mentorship options, the pilot program is designed both to welcome newer library staff and to help SLA members from all different sectors establish connections throughout our shared provincial library network. More information on the pilot program can be found on our website.
The arrival of September, as always, means that the start of the school year is once again upon us; where on Earth does the time go? I’ve only got four months left now to work on all of the New Year’s resolutions that I’d made back in January – and I don’t even remember what any of them were! One of these years I’ve gotta start writing these things down.
Until next time,
James Hope Howard
SLA President
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