I am a retired librarian who was blessed to spend the last fifteen years of my career as a cataloguer with the New Brunswick Public Library Service, and previously eleven years in library automation and cataloguing with the Etobicoke Board of Education and the Toronto District School Board. I was a library technician before becoming a librarian, hence, my attachment  to the APLA Library Staff and Technicians Group. Besides APLA, my other chief group associations are the Fredericton Nature Club, for which I am treasurer and newsletter editor, and a men's group at Christ Church Cathedral..  I enjoy birdwatching, walking and cycling, reading, listening to classical music, and spending time with my wife, Virginia.