[ipac] Farewell

[Eileen R. Kontrovitz]

I hate to break it to you but I'm already on a PUG steering committee! Will
they survive?

Eileen




                        Eileen R. Kontrovitz, M.L.S
		                 Head Of Automation			
					
Ouachita Parish Public Library			Email: eileenk at oplib.org
1800 Stubbs Avenue					Phone: 318-327-1490
ex.3004
Monroe, LA 71201 					FAX: 318-327-1499

                  It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn
off!




-----Original Message-----
From: ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org [mailto:ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org] On
Behalf Of Natasha Stephan
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:29 PM
To: Dynix's Horizon Information Portal,formerly iPac (discussion)
Subject: Re: [ipac] Farewell

Ha, if that.  A toast to you, Eileen.

Very poetically done, John.  A salute to you as well!
Natasha 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org 
> [mailto:ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org] On Behalf Of Susan M. Johns-Smith
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:16 PM
> To: ipac at lists.tblc.org
> Subject: Re: [ipac] Farewell
> 
> I give her 2 years, John :_)
> 
> q
> 
> > 
> 
> Susan Johns Smith 
> Systems/Circulation Librarian            Voice:  (620) 235-4115 
> Axe Library, Pittsburg State University  Fax:    (620) 235-4090 
> Pittsburg KS  66762                      
> suzyq at pittstate.edu
> http://library.pittstate.edu/staff/susan 
> 
> 
> > As honorary perennial past president of CODI (the original 
> version), I
> > metaphorically rise to offer a virtual toast to Eileen on 
> this auspicious
> > occasion as she swims away from the good ship CODI.
> > 
> > It was many years ago, when I noticed a young, shy woman 
> attend her first
> > CODI conference in Salt Lake City.  She spoke knowledgably 
> and politely and
> > asked pertinent questions about vendor-client relations.  
> As the official
> > past president and chair of the nominating committee, it 
> behooved me to suck
> > her into the bitter and angry world of the executive 
> committee.  Little did
> > I realize what force was being unleashed upon the organization.
> > 
> > Her first important decision was to festoon us with 
> flamingoes and attempt a
> > users conference in a partially completed hotel in Tampa.  
> Several false
> > fire alarms and many adventures with incomplete plumbing later, CODI
> > adjourned with all members educated to a peaceful year of 
> reorganization (or
> > a total train wreck, depending upon your perspective).  As 
> reward for
> > volunteering to serve one year as president, Eileen was 
> given eighteen
> > additional months of painful service.
> > 
> > After this moment of calm, Eileen decided to migrate to 
> Horizon, a simple
> > process that required entry of every code by hand, since 
> there were no
> > wizards to convert ITYPE's, PTYE's, Collection Codes, 
> ISTAT's and PSTAT's
> > into Horizon counterparts.  Eileen shared her perspective 
> with all in
> > Orlando in 2002 at the first joint HUG and CODI conference. 
>  She drew the
> > attention of the HUG Board there and before you knew it, 
> Eileen was on that
> > Board, too.  By the time we merged into the new CODI, 
> Eileen was on the way
> > to her second go-round as President.  (Does she never learn?)
> > 
> > We now see her swimming from our ship.  Let us raise our 
> virtual glasses and
> > listen to the ship's orchestra intone its symphony.  Salute 
> our friend as
> > she sails toward the north star.  May her new ship avoid 
> the icebergs!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Who's running the betting pool on how many years before she 
> gets suckered
> > into elected office in that user group?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > John Hurley                            Woodbridge Public Library
> > Library Director                       George Frederick Plaza
> > (732) 634-4450 ext. 7150               Woodbridge NJ 07095
> > FAX (732) 726-7080                     www.woodbridge.lib.nj.us
> > jhurley at woodbridgelibrary.org
> > 
> > 
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