{"id":1055,"date":"2019-01-11T15:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T22:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2024-01-11T14:20:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T21:20:46","slug":"the-most-important-part-of-a-library-is-its-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/2019\/01\/11\/the-most-important-part-of-a-library-is-its-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The most important part of a library is its people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Parkland Regional Library staff are delighted to welcome\nsome new faces onto our team! Caitlin Jonker joined the Operations team at the\nstart of this year. Caitlin fills a vacancy left in finance and operations when\nKara Hamilton was hired into the position of Office Administrator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We welcome Jessie-Lynn Gerski to the IT team on January 14<sup>th<\/sup>.\nYou may recognize Jessie\u2019s name from her previous role at the Rocky Mountain\nHouse Library. Sorry, Rocky, but your loss is our gain! And we\u2019re happy to\nreport that Alyssa Buck, who joined PRL on contract in August 2018, has\naccepted a permanent position on our cataloguing team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In broader regional news, we welcome Karen Tubb as Manager\nof Sundre Municipal Library. Karen has already made great contributions as\ntheir programmer and as of January 1<sup>st<\/sup> she brings her skills and\nknowledge to this new role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robyn Gray joins the Parkland region family as Director of\nCamrose Public Library on January 14<sup>th<\/sup>. We look forward to working\nwith Robyn, who brings experience from Northern Lights Library System and\nBattle River Schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is with sadness that we share the news of <a href=\"https:\/\/feeandsons.com\/tribute\/details\/478\/Billi-jo-Wildeboer\/obituary.html#content-start\">Billi-Jo\nWildeboer\u2019s passing<\/a> on January 6<sup>th<\/sup>. Billi-Jo had been the\nlibrary manager in Hardisty since 2002 and our heart-felt condolences go out to\nher family &#8211; and to the community as they face this unexpected loss. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parkland Regional Library staff are delighted to welcome some new faces onto our team! Caitlin Jonker joined the Operations team at the start of this year. Caitlin fills a vacancy left in finance and operations when Kara Hamilton was hired into the position of Office Administrator. We welcome Jessie-Lynn Gerski &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","category-library-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}