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Wishing you good health and happiness!

Hi Pam

Many thanks for your support over the years - for your encouragement and belief in me! I moved from WM libraries for two years and developed my learning in an HE quality environment - I followed what you saw in me (and what I couldn't) and now I'm in my ideal role of e-resource management!

Best of luck for your retirement - you will be missed.
Karen x

All the very best

All the very best. I'm sure the Best Is yet To Be and I look forward to hearing more about "What next?"

Sue Lacey Bryant

From your friends in HE

It looks like you have a pretty solid fan base in WM libraries from the entries in your blog and you will be sorely missed so on behalf of your friends in HE I would like to join the fan club.

It has been a real pleasure working with you from right back in the days of WMRLS, though The Libraries Partnership up to WM MLA and the Libraries Forum not to mention your contributions to the WM ILG. You have been a great advocate for health libraries and kept their profile to the front of all the plans we have made in those various forums. It was also helpful to have you make some sense of how health libraries worked for those of us only tangentially involved with them.

There are so many overlaps between health libraries and HE libraries that I hope someone else will take over the reins form you in helping to facilitate understanding and collaboration.

Of course other colleagues in HE might disagree but I doubt it. And if they do they can join the blog!

Very best wishes for a long and happy retirement.

Pat

All the best for a long and happy retirement!

Dear Pam

Just to wish you all the best for a long and happy retirement.
Many thanks for all the times you have lent a sympathetic ear to my accounts of crises and disasters and the way you always worked to improve the situation within our libraries.
Here's hoping any future "challenges" are more enjoyable and less stressful than the ones you have been dealing with over the years in the West Midlands.

Best wishes,

Christine Carr

Good bye and Good Luck

We wouldn't be where we are now without all your help and support over the years. Thank you Pam in believing in us!! With your gentle bullying...oops, I mean persuasion we have managed to achieve so many things to improve our services.

So thanks Pam for helping us achieve our goals, without you this would have been very difficult if not impossible.

We wish you all the very best in your retirement, you will be missed.

From the Acute Trusts in South Staffordshire,

Lyn, Natalie and Bec (STG)
Karen, Vicki and Lesley (BUR)

To the incomparable Pam

I reflect today with the greatest affection and respect on your achievements for our profession and I also remember your many kindnesses to me when I left the relatively safe (in those days!)environs of higher education and moved to a regional role in the NHS. Always positive; always supportive; always forward looking and always cheerful despite the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune just sums you up for me Pam.

Your generosity in thinking of Phi at this time too is so heartening to us all in Phi and I’m deeply touched and grateful for your support. Health librarians need to make visible their role in building better health across the globe. They make a vital contribution within the spectrum of international development initiatives and programmes working in partnership with colleagues in Africa and other low resource countries. Thank you for such an encouraging recognition of Phi’s work.

Have a great party today and I wish you a very happy and fulfilling retirement; it’s a new career in itself!

With my love and all good wishes

Shane