Changing jobs... in a pandemic
This month I said a fond farewell to the team at the Royal College of Nursing Library and Archive Service. It's been a very strange time to be moving jobs but they gave me a cracking (virtual) send off nonetheless and even sent an entire book of photo highlights, giving me a chance to revisit some of the fun times I've had at the RCN, including:
... the time the exterior of the historic RCN HQ building at 20 Cavendish Square was being restored and we had a hard-hat tour
... a charity walk we did to commemorate the RCN's centenary year
... that time we celebrated Meghan and Harry's wedding(!)
... that time I co-hosted a gameshow
... and the time we were voted the RCN Team of the Year and also got to meet Sir Ian McKellen.
There are loads more examples I could've included here in what was a fantastic five years I had there and I will definitely miss the whole team a lot. They even went to the trouble of putting together this incredible collage of *all* the libraries I've visited, as featured on this very blog:
The new job at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) brings with it a bit more responsibility and, excitingly, the chance to (eventually) work at the resplendently Art Deco and recently renovated LSHTM Library 😍
LSHTM Library's main reading room when it first opened in 1929
[Image from LSHTMArchives licensed under CC BY 4.0]
For the time-being, the new workplace looks strikingly similar to the old as we continue to work from home:
