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Take 10 with...Georgina MacFarlane

by Laura Landon on 2017-03-07T09:58:54-04:00 | 0 Comments

By Natalie Chapman

Meet Georgina MacFarlane, Access  Georgina MacFarlane, Access Services Assistant, R.P. Bell LibraryServices Assistant at the Bell since 2009.

1. Favourite book:  The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan. (In the library at call number QK 46.5 .H85 P66 2001)

2. What are you currently reading? Barkskins by Annie Proulx. It’s 800 pages, not plot driven, and is basically about the history of the lumber business, starting in fur traders' times, and follows two families through generations. (In the library at call number PS 3566 .R697 B37 2016)

3. Current pet peeve: The common misuse of “less” and “fewer.”

4. If my life were a movie, it would be… Rams, an Icelandic drama from 2016 about two eccentric, introverted brothers who love their sheep more than humanity.

5. What is the strangest or funniest thing that has happened to you during your career? Once, I was checking a book out to a student and when I looked at the name on the computer I saw my maiden name, in full, on the screen. Since my name is very, very rare we began talking and it turned out that her father was born in the exact same small village in England that my father was from. It was such a weird coincidence that I couldn’t help but feel that I was looking at another version of myself from a parallel universe! The weirdest thing is that I haven’t seen or heard of her since that day.

6. Favourite area of study: Biology, environmental sciences.

7. My goal for 2017 is to learn to raise high-quality sheep’s wool. 

8. What do you think is the biggest challenge facing academic libraries today? Reinventing themselves as places of relevance to students in a digital age when books are no longer the go-to source of information.

9. Best known among co-workers for… losing *everything*. Especially my glasses.

10. If you could offer one piece of advice to young people in their twenties, it would be… Let it go; don’t get upset and waste time on trivial things and drama in life but focus instead on things of long-term importance that truly matter.


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