New Ballard Library LA IV

Today is the start date of my new job.
New job = New responsibilities = New challenges = New excitement

I am almost done with my Master's Program at UW in Library Science and Information Technology (I can count down the days until graduation) and I have already landed a full time job with great benefits. More importantly though, I am working at a location where my colleagues are also my mentors, something that is ever important in the information seeking world where technologies and the ways in which we communicate are always progressing and changing.

If you don't seek out challenges and try to tackle them how can you get better than you already are (and it doesn't matter if you were successful or not for that comes later)? This is why landing a job at Seattle Public Libraries' highest volume branch is key to my CE (continuing education). CE doesn't end just because you get a diploma and can now call yourself a "librarian." Who are you kidding really. CE is an everyday action, an everyday act, and it is how you go about tackling such things in you life, both professional and personal, is what makes us who we are.

So yeah admittedly I am a little nervous. Why wouldn't I be. The possibilities are endless but therein lies my first challenge, to take the first step forward.