Library Limericks and Staff Development

Every year, the Library staff from all locations gathers together in the Spring to learn how to better serve you, our community. This Spring the staff will be meeting on Wednesday, April 17 at the St. Helena Branch Library. (It moves around between the largest branches).

Regular hours will resume on Thursday, April 18, 2019. 

Serendipitously I came across a document from a Staff Development Day in 2008 recently.  There was a time when in addition to learning how to be better librarians, library workers and customer service providers, Staff Development Days incorporated elements of fun. That document, "Librarian Limericks: Information Ser-Verses" by Dennis [Adams, former Information Services head, now retired], is appropriate for sharing seeing as it is also "National Poetry Month." The limericks reminded me of former times. 

The BDC got two stanzas in his 16 stanza creation. Bear in mind that this was written several years before the BDC got our current quarters on the 2nd floor.

"In the BDC, there could be found

Only one single staffer around.

That was then, this is now --

You should really see how Amber got right to work with a bound." ...

"'Be aware of the value of space,'

Said the BDC librarian, Grace.

'I have run out of room

This is like King Tut's tomb:

Treasures scattered all over the place!'"

Of the people mentioned in the other 14 stanzas, 4 of the staff are still working in the Library, though not necessarily continuously since, with the same name, at the same location, or in the same position: Amanda Brewer; Bratton de Loach; Traci Cox; and Stacey Inman. Of the others, one person has died; 5 have retired; and 2 moved on to other job opportunities elsewhere.

A lot of things can change in the course of 11 years.The document has now joined other documents relating to the history of the Beaufort County Library in our archives.