[ipac] Farewell

[Mike Doellman]

I've already warned Vince Messina about you.

Mike

Mike Doellman
Library Director
Marshall Public Library
113 South Garfield Avenue
Pocatello, Idaho 83204
(208)232-1263, ext. 29
miked at marshallpl.org

The information and opinions contained herein are solely the responsibility
of the author and in no way reflect those of the Marshall Public Libary, the
City of Pocatello, or anyone else.  Why anyone should think otherwise
completely escapes me.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Eileen R. Kontrovitz" <eileenk at oplib.org>
To: "'Dynix's Horizon Information Portal,formerly iPac \(discussion\)'" <ipac at lists.tblc.org>
Date: 04/28/08 15:55
Subject: Re: [ipac] Farewell

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
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                  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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