All of us at CMLE are fans of celebrating – you should see our office with our seasonally changing decorations! So each week we look at anther fun holiday we can celebrate.

This week, on October 4th, we are celebrating
National Improve Your Office Day!

I love the idea of this holiday! At CMLE HQ we do a lot to improve our office area. Our offices are in a warehouse, with no windows in the entire building. So we have full-spectrum light-bulbs in lamps all over the place, and we keep plants and flowers in the office. We hang lights that change seasonally (we are about to switch over to Fall lights). We bought these cool “windows” we can stick to the walls, so we have a variety of different views, depending on what we want to do.

To make us all feel better, we have our Official Office Bear: Orville!

And, of course we have our delightful Office Hours Companion Dog (who can double as a therapy dog for those who can really use someone to pat): Lady Grey!

So what can you do to adjust your work space to make it nicer? Or more organized and useful?

Here are a few ideas you can try out:

• It’s “Improve Your Office Day”
• Reason to celebrate: October 4, 2017 is National Improve Your Office Day
• Improve Your Office Day – October 4, 2017
• 21 Tips to Organize Your Office and Get More Done

All of us at CMLE are fans of celebrating – you should see our office with our seasonally changing decorations! So each week we look at anther fun holiday we can celebrate.

This week we are ready to celebrate World Gratitude Day! Thursday, Sept.  21 is this exciting day, celebrated around the world.

So what are you grateful for?

At CMLE HQ, we are grateful for many things – but of course, a lot of them of them revolve around libraries! We are grateful for our members. We are grateful for our library visits. We are grateful for our assorted friends and supporters. We are grateful for Orville, our Official Office Bear, our plants, and decorations. We are grateful for our podcasts, our social gatherings with members, and all the fun library things we get to do!

So look around your library. What are you grateful for this week? Patrons? Co-workers? The neat books you have?? Take a few moments to ponder this for yourself, and to remember that even in the annoying days that happen in any library job – we have a lot of good things to be grateful for here in this generally good profession! Feel free to leave grateful comments below!