By Natalie Chapman
Meet Daryl Atkinson
1. Official Title: Access Services Assistant, at the R.P. Bell since 2015 (2012 if you include my time as a Student Assistant)
2. Favourite book: The Psychopath Test: a Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson (in the library at call number HV 33 .R66 2011)
3. One piece of advice to people in their twenties: Be confident! You are all more likeable and capable than you think you are, and there’s a good chance that you are the only one who thinks that you aren’t confident.
4. Something that people are always surprised to learn about me is… I’m a dyed-in-the-wool introvert. I genuinely love people and while the best part of my work day is dealing with people, I spend most of my free time trying to avoid leaving my home.
5. Current goal: To never have to go to school ever again. Ever. Ever.
6. Passion in life: Food. I love making it, but I especially love eating it. I would sell my soul for a doughnut (which happened! My wife proposed to me with a chocolate glazed doughnut, and yes, I did wear it before eating it).
7. Favourite places in the Bell: The space beside the Mac lab at 8:30 AM; it’s quiet, has a great view, and gets lots of warm morning sun. Honourable mention goes to the creepy secret storage room, because it looks like we’ve locked up our most dangerous arcane tomes of dark, forbidden knowledge in a dank, forgotten chamber within the bowels of the library.
8. Current pet peeve: When all the doughnuts are sold out before I get to Cranewood.
9. Best known among Access staff for: My love and knowledge of technology.
10. A book I think that everyone should read is… The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt. Cooking is a life skill that everyone should have (no exceptions!), and this book not only gives fantastic recipes, but it explains the science behind why the recipes work so that you can make the right adjustments to get things exactly how you want them.
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