Today is Miss Justine Eritz’s last day of work before her wedding on Saturday. When she comes back to the Murray Library next week, she will be a married lady named Mrs. Justine Sturgeon.

To send Justine off, her Murray Library coworkers threw her a mini surprise wedding shower. There was food, games, and lots of fun. Even without our social committee director’s input, I think we managed a pretty good party! Thanks to everyone who brought potluck items, decorated, and prepared the games.

We wish you all the best, Justine, on your wedding day, and throughout the many years of wedded bliss that are sure to come!

Justine practices cutting the cake ahead of the big day.

Thanks Christine, for bringing in such a beautiful cake.

Everyone was well-fed!

The 2nd annual Murray Library Mini Golf Tournament was held at Putt n’Bounce yesterday evening. The event was followed by a burger dinner at Fuddruckers.

This year’s event was a rousing success, with 16 participants in the tournament. However, there can only be one winner, and that winner is:

DUANE

Congratulations Duane, on winning for the second year in a row! Duane had the lowest score, an impressive 38 strokes (and 3 holes in one in a row!). Honourable mention goes to Angie, with a second-place score of 42.

Just like there’s only one winner, there can only be one loser. This year’s worst score was also a repeat from last year:

AMY

Congratulations, Amy, on winning the worst score trophy for the second year in a row! Amy had the highest score by two points, at 64 strokes, and no holes in one.

Will someone else be able to unseat our champions next year and win the tin foil trophies? Stay tuned!

Read below to see all final scores.  Continue reading →

Congratulations to Rachel H. from the Murray Library on the birth of her two new babies yesterday afternoon! Rachel, baby boy Ethan, and baby girl Robin are all doing well.

Staff members at the Murray Library had a baby pool going to guess the birthday and weights of the babies. Congratulations to Christine who was the overall winner with the closest date, and to Racheal and Eva who picked the closest girl & boy weights.   
Murray Library staff are collecting to buy a gift for Rachel and her family. If you’d like to contribute, please drop by the Interlibrary Loans department.

For the first time in a long time, the Interlibrary Loans department at the Murray Library is fully staffed. Donna has returned from her term position on the 6th floor, and Iffat will be covering Rachel H’s maternity leave. Here’s our current colour-coordinated crew:

Christine (supervisor), Racheal, Donna and Iffat

Contact any of these ladies for all of your (non-health-sci) interlibrary loan needs. They can be found in room 122 of the Murray Library. These multi-talented staff members also help out at the Murray Library’s check-out desk and reference desk.

Can you guess whose beautiful cat-covered desk this is?

On Wednesday, October 8th, staff members of the Murray Library celebrated a Pumpkin Food Day. The theme was pumpkin: pumpkin flavoured (cake, cookies, mousse, more cookies), pumpkin-coloured (Doritos, Cheezies, candy corn, pretzel thingies) and pumpkin-shaped (cheese ball) foods were all welcome.

(Eva’s famous mushroom tarts, while neither pumpkin-flavoured, -coloured nor -shaped, as always welcome.)

The pièce de resistance was a ginormous 3-layer pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese icing made by Justine.

As you can see, the people who work in Murray Client Services are really into pumpkin. We are officially throwing down the gauntlet to the rest of the library – can you beat us at the pumpkin decorating contest two weeks from now? We think not.