The Canadian Library Association has declared October 21 2011 to be Canadian Library Support Staff Day. We’d like to recognize and celebrate the hard work and achievements of our own Dalhousie Libraries support staff, many of whom you never get to see as they work “behind the scenes,” but without whom most of our library operations would grind to a complete halt. CLA President Karen Adams says it best:

Support staff are essential to the success of Canada’s libraries. They perform invaluable service that is worthy of national recognition […] The purpose of Canadian Library Support Staff Day is to celebrate and show our appreciation for the work of library technicians, library assistants, library clerks, pages, shelvers, and all other support staff members who perform daily miracles in our public, private, school, government, academic, and corporate libraries.

~ CLA Digest, October 21, 2011

If you’d like to express your own appreciation for our hard-working library staff, please feel free to post a comment here!