Hello everyone,
Today is cold and sunny, a classic winter day. I think we all welcome the sunshine, no matter how cold, after all the cold gray days we had last month.
Some of you know I was out with the flu earlier this week, and I am glad to be back and better. I hope everyone is taking care, washing hands frequently and getting enough rest as we hear there is at least another month left of flu season.
There is probably at least another month to wait until we hear the campus budget assumptions for the coming year. Lately the news has not been too bad, and enrollment is projected now to be up for the fall, so we can hope to avoid another major cut, but we don’t know yet. Our plans for the depository continue, as do our other projects that we discussed last month at the All Staff meeting. Jim Spain is now the Interim Provost, and we know he is a friend to many of us and to the libraries, so we hope little will change from the great support we had from Garnett Stokes. I know some of you attended her farewell. She will be missed.
This week starts Black History Month, and there are many interesting events taking place on campus in commemoration. I hope you all find time to attend some. There are calendars of events that should be posted soon.
This coming Tuesday is the monthly Staff Advisory Group meeting, and I hope to see many of you there. Maybe I will have more news then, but for now, I don’t have much. We continue to be busy in Ellis and all the locations, which is good news.
Ann
