We have entered a new year, after saying goodbye to a year that many people are only too ready to forget. It is a time when we all look back at accomplishments and what happened over the past year, and it isn't any different here at the library as we put together annual reports.
As much as I know it is important to remember and evaluate the past in order to plan for the future better, I am one to be more interested in the future unknown than spending too much time in the past. There is a quote by Heraclitus on my office wall that reads: "You could not step twice into the same river". It is a favorite of mine for a number of reasons, but most importantly to remind me the importance of the moment, and to remember nothing ever stays the same.
As always, we have lots of plans for making the library even more welcoming. We are most excited about being able to reopen some evening hours that we lost with a budget cut some years ago. If the 2017 budget passes, we will be open 5 nights a week until 8:30 - for people who are commuters, are involved in clubs and activities on our late nights, and to offer more evening hours for the meeting rooms.
But it is the surprises that are what I look forward to each year. It is easy to plan, it is more fun to roll with events.
