Hi SunnySister,

This is info from one of the worms in the can, mentioned previously.

I used to be a librarian in charge of a couple of branches of our local public library in Newcastle NSW, on the east coast of Australia, in a network of 10 branches. I spent some time in the reference and local history library, and in cataloguing as well. I've been out of the library system since 1994 doing other work, all sorts of work, including teaching at TAFE (vocational) colleges, including a stint teaching modules in a library course, and now I sort of float between a couple of government departments, looking for more permanent work.

Currently I am working for the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, which is basically helping people to access personal and family history records which go back to the beginning of European settlement in Oz, i.e. 1788. A great big database!! A librarian's dream.

My most recent job before that was in relation to land tax, which had a couple of great big databases of landowners in NSW, and all the pieces of land in the state. More fun for librarians!

I've found that my library skills and experience have opened up a lot of possibilities, not just for working within libraries. That's especially true with the computer-based information management that has to be done in most jobs, now.

Rapaire,

What a great description of the 'Cat!!

"The 'Cat is like a box that when you open open it, you find other boxes inside, and you just keep unfolding and unfolding and unfolding it and it never seems to run out of folds and there is a surprise inside each one."

That's definitely a "keeper".

Helen