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3rs: Retirements, Renewal, And Reinvention In Ill: How Ill At A Canadian Arl Library Survived And Thrived Following The Departure Of 50% Of Its Staff In Six Months, Jacki Brazzeal, Cheryl Smeall, Valerie Mayman

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

As the baby boomer generation ages, workplaces are seeing an explosion of retirements. As is widely acknowledged in the literature, academic libraries are no exception. Much of this literature tends to focus on the impact of professional librarian, rather than library technician, retirements. In 2015, the Central Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Article Scan Service of the McGill University Library, an ARL library located in Montreal, Canada, was comprised of one librarian and seven support staff: four in borrowing, two in lending, and one in the article scan service for locally-owned materials. In the fall of 2015, the ILL team won …