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Welcome Trish Wilson, Technical Services Assistant

by Laura Landon on 2017-03-01T09:36:34-04:00 | 0 Comments

Trish Wilson, Technical Services AssistantTrish Wilson remembers visiting the Mount A library as a kid.

“I grew up at Mount Allison. I remember being young and coming here and thinking, ‘it’s so big and there’s so much here!’," says Trish. "It feels good to be part of it."

Trish joined the library’s Technical Services team in late January as the Technical Services Assistant responsible for journals, other serial publications, microfilm, and some other duties formerly done by long-time library employee Deb Black, who retired in December.

“There’s a lot more that goes on behind the scenes than people think about when they come into the library,” says Trish. And much of that behind-the-scenes work happens in Tech Services. Once librarians decide what materials to add to the library's collection—books, journals, DVDs—staff in technical services make sure it gets done. They seek out the best vendors, receive the material, catalogue it so people can easily find it, pay the invoices, print spine labels and bookplates, and send the books to the Circulation/Access Services desk so they can be shelved. And that’s just their role with the print or physical materials. Electronic materials such as e-journals, e-books, and database packages require another complex layer of management.

But instead of making your eyes glaze over with a description of electronic resource management (ERM), we’ll leave that work to Trish and the Tech Services team.

“They’re fantastic and so funny,” Trish says of her co-workers.

Born and raised in Sackville, Trish worked in early childhood education before having two children of her own. When her son and daughter reached high-school and middle-school, Trish also returned to school and graduated with an Office Administration diploma in 2016. She says those computer skills prepared her for her new job in the Mount A Library. The New Brunswick Community College diploma and her recent work in a medical clinic gave her the confidence and skill to work quickly and accurately—both vital library skills.

After hours, Trish has one favourite pastime: “Playing with my kids, whether it’s watching movies, going for walks, dance parties in the kitchen.”

It’s no surprise she’s also a big reader. The sci-fi fantasy novels of Vampire Academy author Richelle Mead are a favourite. “The imagination this woman has when writing books just baffles me,” she says. “It’s an escape from reality.”


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