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Annette (front right) when she first started with the U of L!<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cI grew up in Manitoba and would travel out to see family in Picture Butte once or twice a year. It was on one of these trips where I first saw the University of Lethbridge, this big, beautiful building with all of these shiny windows nestled in the coulees.\u00a0I said to my sister, \u2018I\u2019m going to work there one day!\u2019 ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_0458-300x225.jpg\")
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\u201cAfter I graduated high school, I was deciding whether or not to look for work around home or if I should move to Alberta and apply for a job at the U of L. Well, I packed up and headed out west where I think there were 12 jobs available at the University in the summer of 1981. I applied for almost all of them because I just wanted to work there so badly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI interviewed for an administrative position with the Chemistry Department but I couldn\u2019t type fast enough to meet the demands of the job. Then I got a call from Rosemary Howard who asked me to interview for a position in the Library with the photocopy room. I must have done something right because I got the job and started right away. Being surrounded by all of those lovely books and meeting new people was so much fun and eventually I started to find other little odd tasks I could do as well as keep up with my regular duties. I started sorting and delivering mail which I just loved! Getting to visit with people all over the Library and learning more about what each department did. That led to my next position with the Serials Department working with the magazine subscriptions and index cards, as well as student employees.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 1989 I moved into the Bookstore as a textbook buyer and then eventually went on to the assistant manager position and then finally my position now as manager. I get so much joy out of seeing all of those new faces during NSO week as they trail into the Bookstore. It\u2019s so exciting! When new and even returning students are unsure and a little nervous about where to go and who to ask for what, I love helping them in any way I can. I just tell them everything is going to be ok because they\u2019re in safe hands with us and we love our students.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy time at the U of L has flown by so quickly; it\u2019s hard to believe this is my 35th<\/sup> year here. I used to be the same age as the students and now my own children are enrolled as students! My daughter Michelle is finishing up her first year in Arts & Science and my daughter Emily is in Grade 10 and making plans to attend the University to\u00a0study education.<\/p>\n Annette with her team and her eldest daughter with a sneaky photobomb!<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cMy absolute favourite thing about working for this wonderful institution is the amount of change we get to be a part of. Whether it\u2019s seeing the new science and academic building growing or new academic programming being planned, we are an important part of so many people\u2019s lives because they are gaining the groundwork to their future here. I love getting to be a stepping stone in their journeys whether it\u2019s in my role with the Bookstore or with the Supporting Our Students committee or just as a friendly face in the hallway. Their futures are truly brighter because of the work we all do and that\u2019s just the best feeling there is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Known for her warm, welcoming disposition and bright smile,\u00a0Annette Bright, Bookstore manager, is certainly suited to\u00a0her surname.\u00a0Having been at the U of L for 35 years now, Annette has literally…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,4,40,5,6],"tags":[81,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donor","8":"category-faculty-staff","9":"category-inspiring-lights","10":"category-on-campus","11":"category-students","12":"tag-annette-bright","13":"tag-bookstore"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_0453-300x225.jpg\")