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Dear All, Many of you may already know that I am finally hanging up my date stamp and retiring. I have only 3 working days left and will be in on 31st July for my farewell, then handing over to Paula who will be taking over full-time from 2nd September. I have worked in the NHS for 22 years and 8 months - but who's counting - and started out as an Information Officer for the Manchester Community Health Councils in 1990. I have worked my way around this corner of the NW and have many happy memories of Salford Royal, (the original one) Hope Hospital and Bury ( pre Pennine), before landing at Bolton in 2001. Whatever difficulties the NHS has had, the abiding memories I have is of the colleagues I have worked with, both in the workplace and across the wider network. Working as a one person librarian, as I did at Salford Royal, can be a very isolating experience but the co-operation and collaboration across the NW from a bunch of friendly and helpful colleagues made the job so much easier. Well I stayed for 22 more years so something must have been good! I would also like to pay a little tribute to David. Any of you who go back to the early 90s will remember that many of us were paid on an A&C 4 and not all libraries had a 'professional' librarian. HCLU had a very big influence here in the NW in raising the profile of the library profession both in hospitals and the community, and AfC gave a big boost to many people's salaries. Many of you may be a long way from retirement but you will be eternally grateful when your time comes. So thank you David and staff, and a huge thank you to all my friends and colleagues out there in library land. Goodbye and thanks for all the memories! Jean Jean Williams Library Services Manager (Job Share) Thursday/Friday Education Centre Library Royal Bolton Hospital Bolton BL4 0JR 01204 390935 Register for an Athens Username @ www.evidence.nhs.uk<http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/>