Milestone
I normally post on Mondays, but felt compelled to wait until Friday to write this.
I've been tracking our incoming requests a bit more carefully these days. The end of this month will conclude our 16th year. Roger & I have been around for most of them. When we started, we had one CD-ROM, no email, no Internet, and no computer network. Just a handful of librarians with a bunch of books, a used Xerox machine, and well-worn telephones.
We've come a long way -- longer than I thought. Late yesterday, we got an email from an advisor in our Binghamton office (thanks, Laura!), looking for information on a client starting an adult day care service. We've researched this subject many times before. Ordinarily, it wouldn't be worth a comment, except that it turned out to be the 25,000th request in our history.
Whoa. I'm not used to being part of a number like that (unless it's my car's odometer). But this is something worth noting.
Thanks, then, to all the librarians from way back when . . . Michele, Jennifer, Lynne, Sheldon, Jo-Ann, Vivian, Mary Ellen, Lorie, Judy, Theresa, Anne, Gwen, and Mary Beth (and Mary Hoffman, who's moved up to the penthouse suite). They're a part of our history, and helped us become what we are today.
Thanks to Roger (who's made it the longest), Josee, Amelia & Alexis . . . it feels like we've done 25,000 in this summer alone.
Thanks to all of you, and to the clients of the SBDC -- you're the reason we're here.
Finally, there's a phrase I use often to end my emails to you, which seems appropriate now:
"I hope this has been of use."
Have a good weekend, y'all.
I've been tracking our incoming requests a bit more carefully these days. The end of this month will conclude our 16th year. Roger & I have been around for most of them. When we started, we had one CD-ROM, no email, no Internet, and no computer network. Just a handful of librarians with a bunch of books, a used Xerox machine, and well-worn telephones.
We've come a long way -- longer than I thought. Late yesterday, we got an email from an advisor in our Binghamton office (thanks, Laura!), looking for information on a client starting an adult day care service. We've researched this subject many times before. Ordinarily, it wouldn't be worth a comment, except that it turned out to be the 25,000th request in our history.
Whoa. I'm not used to being part of a number like that (unless it's my car's odometer). But this is something worth noting.
Thanks, then, to all the librarians from way back when . . . Michele, Jennifer, Lynne, Sheldon, Jo-Ann, Vivian, Mary Ellen, Lorie, Judy, Theresa, Anne, Gwen, and Mary Beth (and Mary Hoffman, who's moved up to the penthouse suite). They're a part of our history, and helped us become what we are today.
Thanks to Roger (who's made it the longest), Josee, Amelia & Alexis . . . it feels like we've done 25,000 in this summer alone.
Thanks to all of you, and to the clients of the SBDC -- you're the reason we're here.
Finally, there's a phrase I use often to end my emails to you, which seems appropriate now:
"I hope this has been of use."
Have a good weekend, y'all.
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