New Horizons

On Friday July 30th I bid farewell to my job, working as a Librarian for Leeds City Council. I've really enjoyed working for Leeds for the past 13 years and have worked with some excellent people. The skills and knowledge I've gained throughout my time with Leeds helped me gain my Chartership and should also be applicable in my new job.

On Monday 2nd August I began my new job as Local and Family History Librarian for City of York Council. Over the past three weeks, I'm been meeting new staff and getting used to working in a much smaller public library authority. My new role has some interesting challenges and some excellent opportunities for service development and is at an exciting turning point. I feel I've hit the ground running and been able to make a few operational changes to make things a bit easier. It also feels more like my new home now and I'm getting more familiar with the resources and stock as I move things around to make them easier to retrieve by staff for users. I'm also looking forward to actually getting to catalogue stock. While I'm not a born Cataloguer, it's a part of my Librarianship qualification I've not really had the opportunitiy to develop or use in my previous post.

I feel that I've made the correct decision with my career and I'm excited about the future and the opportunity to work with and get to know my new colleagues.

The only problem I've encountered with starting a new job with a new employer is the difficulty of finding a new home and ofcourse the period between wages. Although this in itself has been a learning curve requiring me to budget to ensure that I have enough money to keep me going.... watch this space!