With Cindy Fuller starting back with us on December 16 (see the previous library newsletter for details), we will be at full staff in the library - for about a month. Then, Jen Masciadrelli will be leaving!! She will be in effect filling Cindy's position at ILCSO. This will be a nice step for Jen: more money for sure, no commute, and a basically perfect fit for Jen's many talents and enjoyments. Jen is already well known to many of the staff at ILCSO because of her committee work with the integrated state-wide library system, Voyager, and its public catalog, ILLINET Online, so it will be a comfortable transition for her. She does need to move, but that is only because she and her husband have just bought a house in Champaign.

But oh how we will miss her! And this time there is no-one waiting in the wings to take over the position Jen is vacating. We will initiate a national search in January and proceed with all due speed, even while once again shifting around some librarian responsibilities. We will keep you posted. 

(Oh yes, that Peeps page: as of  Dec. 5, 2004, it had been looked at 411,106 times since April 16, 2003 ! Jen and Susan Avery, co-creators of the page, are preparing a brief conference paper about it. We never could have imagined what a hit it would be!) 

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