Ballad in Plain E

Rob Golbeck is the winner of the 2007 BCLA President’s Award. Rob is the first library technician to be given this honour.

I first met Rob in 2004 when he joined the LTAIG committee to work on the annotated library technician program listings for the LTAIG website. When he became chair of the committee in 2006, he had big shoes to fill: Diane Walker, our past chair, had been an extremely admirable leader. Fortunately, Rob rose to the challenge and has provided excellent leadership and vision ever since.

Rob is a hard worker with plenty of enthusiasm and drive, and a great sense of humour. His dedication to LTAIG is one of the main reasons we have accomplished so much this past year. Not only does he lead our committee, he also maintains the LTAIG website, which receives thousands of hits every year, thanks in great part to his commitment to keeping it up to date and stocked with good content.

I am fortunate to also know Rob through the law library community, where we are both members of the Vancouver Association of Law Libraries. I feel lucky that he and his lovely fiancee (and fellow library technician) Jen are friends of mine outside the library world as well! They are now BC’s official library power-couple!

I join my fellow bloggers in congratulating Rob — way to go!

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