As yesterday was my “work-iversary” of starting at Regina Public Library in 2008, I thought I’d post one of my favourite pictures of all-time for “Throwback Thursday”.
This is a scan of a print (remember those where you’d get 24 photos in a roll of film for a camera?) of me coming out of the main doors of Regina Public Library,
What I love about this picture is, at a time when every photo was fairly precious and you didn’t waste film taking pictures of every single thing like you can now with 256 GB of storage in a smartphone you have on you at all times, whoever took it (my parents?) recognized that this was something that was significant enough in my life that it was worth taking a candid photo of me at this very special place.
Cameras in this era didn’t have zoom lens (unless you were a pro!). so it’s pretty far away and I’m not sure how old I am in this photo – late teens? Early 20’s? – but again, that’s what makes this photo special – obviously libraries have played a large part in my life for a really long time before library school was something I knew existed, let along considered.
But I sort of wish I could go back in time and whisper to that young kid that he’d take a fairly circuitous route to get there but would eventually be working at that same library system including five years in that very building!
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