Retirements!
Sharon Domier
Greetings from beautiful New England where we are safe from hurricanes and enjoying the autumn colors. I hope you are all safe and healthy. I wanted to send out a note to the Small Collections Roundtable of a couple of retirements from our group. There might be more. We tend to disappear quietly since there isn’t anyone else at our institutions to send notes to CEAL on our behalf.
First of all, today is Yuh-fen Benda’s last day at Vanderbilt University. She wanted to go out quietly, but I have decided not to honor her wish because she has been a great Small Collections colleague, and I think we will all like to wish her a happy retirement in spirit. I think Yuh-fen has been a Small Collections member from its very beginning in 2004, or soon after. I have relied on her for help with Taiwanese materials, and have been happy to help her where I could with Japanese things.
Next week is my retirement. In my case, I wanted to send a note to all of you to thank you for all your support and collaboration over the years as we figured out how to help our faculty and students with limited budgets and language skills. I feel like we all were much stronger together and I have been so grateful not to have felt isolated at all. Rather I am proud at how well our students have done and many have gone on to hold their own at the big institutions for graduate work. As special thanks goes to those of you who read picture books with me during COVID. I loved that and will be picking that project up again once my time is my own. I hope that I might continue to ask some of you for help. And, of course, you are always welcome to send me email and I will do what I can to help you with what you need.
Again, thank you and send some good vibes out to Yuh-fen (and me if you feel like it). Also, if any of our other small collections folks have retired, could you let me know please?
All the best from me,
Sharon Domier
Chen, Xi
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Chen, Xi
Sharon, as the funder of the Small Collection Roundtable, you have contributed significantly to the group through your leadership and collaboration with all solo librarians. We appreciate your dedication.
Yuh-fen and Sharon: I’m honored to know both of you and have worked with you for many years. With both of you leaving now, I’ll miss the good times we met at CEAL every year and other occasions, such as workshops in Korea and conferences in China and Taiwan.
I hope you both will pursue your passions in the new stage of your lives. Enjoy it, enjoy it, and enjoy it.
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Amei Hu
Hi Sharon and all,
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