VPC 

The minutes from the 12-5 meeting can be found here. In honor of Bill Uricchio’s retirement the Hartford Campus Library will be hosting the next VPC on Wednesday, January 7th at 9:30. More details including an agenda will be coming out later. Following VPC is the reception for Bill in which you all have been invited. I encourage you to car pool when possible.

The Close of Another Year 

Please accept my deep gratitude for all of the work you have done in 2014. I was so pleased to see so many current and some former staff together at the Winter Solstice celebration enjoying each other’s company. If it wasn’t for the good sports fighting over the scotch and tequila in the Yankee Swap it would have been perfect (just kidding, especially since I won the scotch…) Congratulations to the staff who entered our contests and won! They included Terry Palacios-Baughman with the most festive outfit (with Joel Atkinson as the close runner up), Nicholas Eshelman with the most unique outfit and Terri Goldich for the ugliest outfit. For those of you who enjoyed the dessert contest, congratulations to Erika McNeil for receiving the staff vote. Photos from the event (minus the dessert, it went far too fast to take a photo) and a few other recent staff activities can be found on the staff news blog. A reminder the login information for that is your windows username and password.

Looking Ahead

As we look ahead to 2015, I hope you will all join me in being agents of inspiration for both our users and ourselves. As I spoke about in my Mashup, our collective inspiration will lead to great things, to give the “what if’s” a shot, and aspire to be the world-class library UConn can be proud of.