For almost 50 years, I had the privilege and joy of teaching mostly undergraduate and some graduate students at two universities in Edmonton. When I retired about 16 years ago, my continuing attempts at my own education (T.S. Eliot once said that “all smart people are self-educated” ) were greatly enhanced by the library in St. Albert and its superb, endlessly helpful, kind, very professional and considerate female staff. I have never left the downtown library without being impressed, maybe the better word is awed, by the extent that the staff there had gone on my behalf. They are uniformly wonderful and their competence as librarians is either extensive or limitless.
My gratitude to the staff of the library increases after every visit. They have, without directly intending to do so, been major contributors to my developing awareness of how little I know in reference to what might be known. This, for me, has been frustrating, absolutely necessary and uniquely beneficial.
David Wangler, St. Albert
