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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Jane, I’m thrilled for you but will miss you very much. You helped me feel welcome when I got involved with ORCA and LLC. Thank you. My younger brother and sister-in-law are retiring on the 31<sup>st</sup>,
too. I’m getting envious. </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">J</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Best wishes always,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Tammy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A93439">Tammy R. Siebenberg, MLIS</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#747474"><br>
<i>Director – Library & Media Services </i><br>
<b>Yakima Valley College </b><br>
509.574.4984 <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> LIBRARYDIR <librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu> <b>
On Behalf Of </b>Jane Blume<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 4, 2018 9:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WACTC Library Directors <librarydir@lists.ctc.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> myravv@comcast.net; Lauri K <lmkram1968@gmail.com>; Whittaker, Shellie <ShellieW@bigbend.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [LIBRARYDIR] The next chapter...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">I am retiring from Bellingham Technical College on December 31. I wish I had been able to attend the October LLC to be able to say good bye to everyone in person.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">It has been an honor to work with all of you and in the community and technical college system for the last 34 years. When I started to teach at Whatcom Community College,
I felt I had found my calling. I love working with our students. At Bellingham Technical College I was hired to create a new library. The college had just moved from the K-12 to the CTC system. It has been 48 years that I have worked in libraries; 43 years
as a Librarian. I have found that even though I have worked in libraries for a long time, that it continues to be a challenging profession that constantly evolves and grows. It has gone from manual typewriters to computers to networks to the Internet to the
cloud. One constant has been the wonderful people I have worked with wherever I have worked.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">I will let the words of Walt Whitman in
<i>Song of the Open Road</i> speak for me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Healthy, free, the world before me,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Done with indoor complaints, libraries, …,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Strong and content I travel the open road…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Please keep in touch. I’ve included my contact info below if you are ever in Bellingham.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Jane<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Jane Blume<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Director|Library & Media Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Bellingham Technical College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">360-752-8472 – office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">360-752-8383 – library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:jblume@btc.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">jblume@btc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:jane.blume@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">jane.blume@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> – personal email<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">360-510-1126<o:p></o:p></p>
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