February’s installment of 7 Questions With… AAAL Members features Corene Kozey, Information Services Librarian  at Buchanan Library, Lethbridge College.

1. What is something interesting you learned in the last month? I was watching Charlie Rose and was excited about a new procedure being used to rectify blindness using stem cells.

2. Have you ever had something happen to you that you thought was bad, but it turned out to be for the best? The one thing that comes to mind is a trip my husband and I took to Mexico. The trip was a tribute to Murphy’s Law! Our travel agent had changed jobs and so our account slipped through the cracks. We were booked on Mexicana Airlines flight 212 from LA to Mexico, an imaginary flight. Our luggage didn’t arrive in Mexico city for 4 days, and the only English our taxi driver could speak was ‘bad hotel’ when we told him where we were staying. In the end, the holiday was probably one of the most enjoyable because we learned to ‘go with the flow’.

3. What is your favourite thing to binge watch? Grey’s Anatomy.

4. What do you eat for breakfast? Dry white toast!

5. What do you do when you’re not working? I think I may have been a bag lady or some type of scavenger bird in my previous life because I get so much enjoyment out of cruising second-hand stores.

6. What is your favourite quote? I don’t really have a favourite quote, but I was researching Murphy’s law with respect to work and found a rather funny law I’d like to share with everyone. ‘A pat on the back is merely centimeters from a kick in the pants.’

7. What is your favourite colour? Green ‘is the colour, football is the game’

January’s installment of 7 Questions With… AAAL Members features Leigh Cunningham, Collections & Instruction Librarian at Medicine Hat College.

1. When was the last time you were nervous? I don’t usually get really nervous. I taught a course for the first time at the college in fall semester and I was pretty nervous getting up in front of 24 eager, paying students that first morning!

2. If you could learn to do anything, what would it be? Build cool furniture.

3. Have you ever had something happen to you that you thought was bad, but it turned out to be for the best? I got laid off right before Christmas in 2007. It was a good job that was helping me get through library school. Being laid off actually allowed me more flexibility to take on hours at my library job, which ended up becoming a full time opportunity.

4. If you had to work on only one project for the next year, what would it be? I would focus on developing our information literacy program to be embedded in the curriculum. Right now, this is just one of many projects!

5. If you could throw any kind of party, what would it be like and what would it be for? I’m not much for parties, so maybe a house concert with margaritas and kittens.

6. What is your best piece of career advice? Be flexible and open to opportunities. I was able to move from Ontario to Alberta for my job but I don’t think that’s for everyone.

7. What is your favourite thing to binge watch? Terrible reality shows like America’s Next Top Model or The Bachelor.