The Lion's Roundtable (Guests: Dr. David Sesser, Suzanne Gautier and Eric Johnson)
Download MP3Good day. This is Amber Narro. We are on KSLU's ninety point nine FM with the Lions Roundtable and I have a host of guests with me this morning. They are fantastic folks. You'll recognize some of the names from library with our friends of Memorial library program here at Southeastern where we are raising money to support students and all things Sims Memorial Library.
Dr. Amber Narro:I've got Eric Johnson. I have got Sue Gautier, and I have got my friend, my really good friend in this last couple of years, David Sesser with me, Doctor Dave David Sesser from the library talking about how we are gonna support our library and everything in it. Welcome. I'm so glad to have y'all. I'm happy to Yes.
Dr. Amber Narro:Eric, how's retirement treating you?
Eric Johnson:Very well.
Dr. Amber Narro:Thank you. Yeah. You you talk about that. Every time you come here, you talk about how wonderful it is and all the rest of us schmucks still working. Tell us tell us what you've been doing lately.
Eric Johnson:What have I been doing? I have been, well, I'm busy with the Friends of the Library, of course. And I'm also on the board of the Hammond Regional Arts Center, which keeps me hopping. Indeed. And eating out a lot and, you know, seeing friends.
Eric Johnson:Are
Dr. Amber Narro:you moving around a bit, traveling a little bit, Hitting there?
Eric Johnson:I haven't been. I'm starting again this year.
Dr. Amber Narro:Excellent. Excellent. We're so glad to have you here.
Eric Johnson:Good to be here.
Dr. Amber Narro:You know, it's funny that this community is so wonderful and that we have people who work in their spots and just love and have this love and joy for their careers of service like you had here at the library. We have Sylvia Bush still volunteers almost forty hours a week. I think at options still serving the people with disabilities. She doesn't collect a paycheck now. I think she's there just as much as she was before.
Dr. Amber Narro:You know, we have people who retire from Southeastern come back and pour into our students with guest lectures and things like that. So thank you for being among those who just commit their careers so
Eric Johnson:I can I'm happy to return a favor.
Dr. Amber Narro:I can't see me ever falling off of this planet either. I I love it that you that you have come back and hang out with us. Absolutely thrilling to see you here every time.
Eric Johnson:Thanks.
Dr. Amber Narro:Sue. Yes. Hello. You, longtime volunteer of Friends Memorial Library as well and from Friends of the Library. Tell me about what you've been doing.
Sue Gautier:Well, in my fifth year of retirement, so like like Eric, I'm I'm loving every minute. I'm I'm busy with some other stuff for Southeastern. The felines, of course. We just had our big champagne bingo and
Dr. Amber Narro:they Yeah.
Sue Gautier:Ton of money for athletics. Excellent.
Dr. Amber Narro:I
Sue Gautier:gotta back to that, man.
Dr. Amber Narro:I've went for years and I haven't been in years.
Sue Gautier:It was it was the best ever and we raised more money than we've ever raised. So, I don't even know how much it Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:Of course, you did.
Sue Gautier:But it continues to be sold out and all of that. So, we're we're blessed in that respect and I'm involved with the Columbia board also, Columbia Theatre board and and last but not least, golf. Yeah. Which your husband wants a lot to has a lot to do with that in my early lessons and early time with golf and it it stuck.
Dr. Amber Narro:Well, you're still among his favorites Oh, for I love Jake so much. And you know, we just recently, we have built a golf simulator in our house. You're gonna have to come see that. I would love to. It's super fun.
Dr. Amber Narro:And we have we have friends who stay with us when they come in for tournaments and things like that. And I just keep hearing thunk, thunk, thunk against the wall. They all love it so much. That's a fun. It's been it's been a change for him.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah. And it's so funny because first he was like, I I need to see the ball in the air and feel it you know the whole thing. Now he's gotten addicted to that little machine that tells him how far he's hitting it, you know.
Sue Gautier:Lot of data.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah, yeah, way above my head. David you gotta be ecstatic that you have these two on your team and that they're here to to support everything that you do in the form of volunteer hours.
Dr. David Sesser:Yes.
Dr. Amber Narro:Right?
Dr. David Sesser:It makes my job so much easier to to have these people that I can constantly turn to and they're always there, willing, able to help. And not only are they able to do the physical work, but they know everybody. Yeah. Everybody.
Eric Johnson:Yeah. They know who to reach
Dr. David Sesser:out to. I've only been here about three and a half years now, I'm still learning, I'm still making connections, but all I have to do is pick up the phone and say, hey, who do I talk to? They have the answer.
Dr. Amber Narro:You know, we talk on the show a lot about the culture of Southeastern and about that if you're not here and willing to work on a team and willing to really, kinda embrace the culture of caring about individual students as well as each other and partnerships, you're not gonna make it here. We're the culture's gonna crush you out.
Dr. David Sesser:Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:And and David, I can tell you, it feels like you've been here for a really long time.
Dr. David Sesser:And Yeah. He does.
Dr. Amber Narro:I can say that with my with my whole heart because we've been neighbors now in the library for roughly a year or so getting Yeah. Coming up to a year, really. And we you and I have had to go through some conversations about where we're gonna be and what's gonna happen. Right. And you have truly been a friend to me and the Honors Program.
Dr. Amber Narro:And I just have to thank you for that and and and your efforts here at Sims Memorial Library to really do what's right for the students, do what's best for them, and and take on some challenges, of making sure that people are in there. We have student workers who walk around all the time doing head counts, and he's following on the footsteps of just a legend at Southeastern and Eric Johnson sitting But right really to embrace and pick up where Eric left off and still be that friend to everybody on campus through their libraries, thank you for that.
Dr. David Sesser:We are for everyone so Yeah. When our doors are open, we want you there. When our doors are closed, give us a call, chat with us, we're always available.
Dr. Amber Narro:Absolutely. Eric, I gotta tell you the story. When I got over to the library and I started talking to David about where our space could be and he was showing me some of the things that could be there. He goes, it just makes sense for honors to be in the library. Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:And I I look, I'm putting a call out. Leave me in the building, people. Okay? So, I love it. My students love it there.
Dr. Amber Narro:We we're enjoying our our space and and our activities there. It just makes sense, right? So that those studious people and our students who need a little bit of help, I always talk about how great the chat, the library chat is. It's like
Dr. David Sesser:Mhmm.
Dr. Amber Narro:I I tell the students, it's AI, but it's not artificial. Yeah. Know, because you could just actually at the end. Yes. It's actual intelligence.
Dr. Amber Narro:I love that. So, they the students get on there and they chat with a real person, you know, and the real person sends them back information. And we've done it real time in classes because I'm like, okay, y'all. Check this out. Right?
Dr. Amber Narro:And I'll tell them. I need this and such. And they see the librarian come back on and give me the resources on there and they're like, Woah!
Eric Johnson:And it's not Siri.
Sue Gautier:Right, we don't have to check this source.
Dr. Amber Narro:Indeed, indeed, I love it. So we've got some great services in the library, not only from faculty, talk about the services that we have for our students and for the community.
Dr. David Sesser:Oh geez, so starting on the 1st Floor, obviously we have a ton of computers with printers, we have a copier if you need to scan things, we have computers to check out, specifically we have Chromebooks, we have cameras, all kinds of recording equipment that you can borrow from the library. As long as you're a student, you have a library card or a faculty member, just come in, we will get you hooked up and if you have trouble with any of it, just let us know and we'll help you work through it. 2nd Floor, more computers in our e resources and serials room, graphic novel collection, comfortable seating area. That's one of the things that we're really pushing right now is updating a lot of our furniture. So we have a lot of good stuff for groups to work together and work on projects, whiteboards you can borrow, things like that.
Dr. David Sesser:But if you wanna come in and relax, if you wanna play a board game, we have a board game collection and we're just trying to make the library feel like a third space. If you don't wanna be in your classroom, or you don't have to be in your classroom, and you don't wanna be at home, come to the library, come to the library, we want you there. 3rd Floor, of course,
Dr. Amber Narro:y'all We got the iHub on the Oh, second
Dr. David Sesser:iHub, oh my gosh, I've
Dr. Amber Narro:got the iHub. Yes.
Dr. David Sesser:The iHub is a great space, we are learning more about how we can utilize that space, what is in it, what can be added to it every day. As as you know, we're currently searching for a new librarian. They'll be the outreach librarian in in charge of the iHub. We're also finishing the search for a second librarian, so I always wanna give kudos to our administration for supporting the library. They said, yes, you can have two new librarian positions because we need them due to the growth and due to basically just the changing nature of libraries.
Dr. Amber Narro:And the need for actual intelligence, right, Susan? Actual intelligence, actual intelligence. Indeed. So 3rd Floor.
Dr. David Sesser:3rd Floor, on one end we have the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies, a great resource for anyone studying the history and culture of this area. Other end, we have honors.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yay. I see I was going there. Is Wait for you to talk to me about that.
Dr. David Sesser:Is constantly evolving. We we don't know what the end product's gonna look like, but I for one am excited. And of course, we have a huge selection of bound periodicals out there that still see usage as well as study rooms. And then 4th Floor, people come in the library and they say, where are the books? I don't see any of the books.
Dr. David Sesser:I just go to the 4th Floor, you will be overwhelmed and you will be. And it is wall to wall stacks of books that are used constantly. I was up there this morning, I personally checked out six books, but there were
Dr. Amber Narro:Got me one yesterday.
Dr. David Sesser:Students up there looking through the stacks, finding the materials that they need, and if we don't have something that you need, just reach out to us, we will either get it for you, we will buy it, or we will interlibrary loan it for you.
Dr. Amber Narro:You know, gotta tell you my experience with the library and and look, we're about to ask for your money. We're about to tell you why we're here. Okay, folks? But we are selling this library right now because it deserves to be sold and it's good for the public as well as the students as well. So, hang with me.
Dr. Amber Narro:The hook is coming when I'm gonna get into your pockets. But, David, a couple of the things that I've been very excited to experience lately in the library, and I think it's because it's on top of my mind, and I do wanna sell this to our faculty and to the public. We have a wealth of materials that are available online as well Oh, yes. As far as electronic books are concerned. And yesterday, we have started a book club in the honors program, and yesterday, our first day, I brought the students in and I said, here are your rules.
Dr. Amber Narro:We have to have something that's interdisciplinary because there are, you know, 30 of us who are going into this book club. We we need to have something that's interdisciplinary. I'd like it to be on leadership so that I can lead it from an interdisciplinary standpoint. You know, as you're this is my my specialty. I can't I can't lead you on anything math.
Dr. Amber Narro:Right? That's not gonna help me much, and it's not gonna help you at all. And so let's let's focus it on kind of a leadership thing so we can all do this together, and and that's one of our missions in honors is to promote leadership. And it needs to be electronic so all of y'all can get to it, you know, so that nobody's spending any money here. So we sat for about thirty minutes, chose a book, and we're gonna start reading it chapter by chapter till the end of the semester in our new space in the library, every you know, following the Honors Student Association meeting.
Dr. Amber Narro:So we did that. We also have the opportunity as faculty members to reach out to librarians and say, hey. We need a hard copy of this book because we're considering it for our classes, and it ends up in the stacks. And if we don't use it, it ends up as a resource for our students. And I would call would call out anybody who says our library doesn't have books.
Dr. Amber Narro:Every time you walk into the front door, you see That's the bestsellers. The bestsellers right there on the Bottom Floor. You see stories from our Louisiana history sitting right around, things that just stay on the Bottom Floor of the library, and right there on the 1st Floor of the library are bunches and bunches of references, things that you can put on hold for faculty members so that the students that can come right in, grab what they need for class, and and hit the road. So anybody who's saying we don't have books, you ain't looking around. You can open your eyeballs.
Dr. Amber Narro:So I love it. I love it. Thank you for your leadership there. And just for our our listeners as well as the Southeastern community, what we have in doctor Sesser is an amazing wealth of of expertise in using libraries, and your research kinda touches on a lot of the ways that people are using libraries in this new age, yes?
Dr. David Sesser:Yes, so before I moved to Louisiana, spent twenty years in Arkansas and part of what I did there, so I visited both public and academic libraries and I would do site surveys to see if they were effectively using their space, how they could perhaps expand and then what they could do at low cost, what they could do at high cost, things like that, and I would write those reports up and they were published in a publication called Arkansas Libraries. So I've seen very well designed libraries, I've seen very poorly designed libraries and there are a lot of libraries in the middle which
Dr. Amber Narro:So just in secret, where do we land on that We right
Dr. David Sesser:are actually pretty great.
Dr. Amber Narro:I've put him on the spot. I always always He hasn't told me.
Dr. David Sesser:That this is by far the newest library I have ever worked in.
Dr. Amber Narro:Love
Dr. David Sesser:it. It was built in 1986, or it opened in 1986, so was built in
Dr. Amber Narro:'18 Is it that new?
Dr. David Sesser:Yes. Oh,
Sue Gautier:I didn't realize that,
Dr. Amber Narro:because we've got some old, beautiful buildings on campus and
Dr. David Sesser:it it turns just forty years this year.
Dr. Amber Narro:Come on.
Dr. David Sesser:And so I always like to point out, tomorrow is my wife's birthday, she turns 40 tomorrow. Okay, is
Sue Gautier:she in
Dr. David Sesser:the library? I always tell her that she and the library are the same age, which is much better because the library, I served on the Clark County, Arkansas Library Board as the chair for several years, that building was built in nineteen o three as a library. So it was a great space in nineteen o three, but with the advent of electricity and telephones and the internet, the building really couldn't function effectively as a library anymore. So that's an example of, it was a great building, not so much anymore and this is a good building with good bones that can be expanded and updated as needed, our library.
Dr. Amber Narro:Oh man.
Eric Johnson:Can do that.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah, and we've got the right person at the helm to make sure that that happens and speaking of that, we definitely need to support these efforts, right?
Sue Gautier:Absolutely. Talk
Dr. Amber Narro:to me about this initiative y'all are doing through Sims, Friends with Sims.
Eric Johnson:Well, we started the Friends of Sims Library back in the Durham, think it was in 2007 and we got a group together of, yeah, a long time of, local people who would be we thought might be interested and created a board And, among them was of course Marjorie Morrison who had her her hands in art associations and, just every board known to to Hammond. So, she was a dynamo. And the the idea was to support the library financially too. Right. Because you never you never have enough money in your budget when you're running a library.
Eric Johnson:You just don't. So we, Janie Branham, who was the Serials Librarian, and I,
Dr. Amber Narro:got call.
Eric Johnson:Just Yeah. Recently
Dr. Amber Narro:God bless her. Thank you for your service as well, Yeah.
Eric Johnson:She, she and I, got the group together. We created a board. And very quickly, we started thinking about, okay, how do we raise money? Because that's the point of this. And we came up with the idea, I believe it was my idea, of a wine tasting, a wine dinner.
Dr. Amber Narro:How'd you come up with that, Eric?
Eric Johnson:Yeah, how about that? And from there, we went on to adding a tea. We needed to do something for the members because people would give money and, there was nothing really tangible that could be invited to things but we wanted to give back. So we decided to tea with an author would be good because we had we always had authors coming to the library discussing their work and So, signing their that became an annual event as well. And it's now named after Marjorie, she passed away.
Eric Johnson:And it's the Marjorie Morrison Memorial Members Tea. Yes. So we do the wine dinner every year in the fall and we do the tea in, spring. And, the tea is free to members. So if you're a member of the Friends of Sims Library, you can come to it without paying anything.
Eric Johnson:And at various levels of membership, you get perks. So that, there are I think four levels. And if you are, for example, a lifetime member as I am, I can get a table for four to come for free. So I can invite people and hopefully force them to become a member and increase the ranks. But, it's great fun.
Eric Johnson:We have an author in this year, of course. We've had novelists. We've had a historian. We've had a playwright. We've had short story writer.
Eric Johnson:I did it one year as a last minute thing with Kathy DiGiorino. We had written a book on Hammond, so photographic history. And, our scheduled author fell through, about two weeks before and was like, what are we gonna do? We don't have an author. And so I looked at Kathy and said, we could do it.
Eric Johnson:It's kinda like Judy Garland and Mickey. You can do it. Let's put on a show kids. We did that and it was great because I publicized our book which was relatively new then. And we provided people with, I hope, was an interesting talk.
Dr. Amber Narro:I can assure you. It was.
Sue Gautier:And didn't we have a screenwriter last year? Wasn't she a screenwriter? Last year? The the guest author
Eric Johnson:that we had. No, was a short story writer.
Sue Gautier:Short story writer.
Eric Johnson:Yeah. Okay. So, anyway, we finally have a poet this year. And for those of people who think, oh, poetry. I don't like poetry.
Eric Johnson:You haven't You heard are gonna like this poet. It is Alison Pellegrin who teaches in the English department. She was the poet laureate of Louisiana, just finished two years as that.
Dr. Amber Narro:Speaking of somebody who's committed to service Oh, absolutely. And what she's
Eric Johnson:done Absolutely.
Dr. Amber Narro:To She's amazing. Understand what what the prison system is, right, and what the prison system could do for individuals who who are serving time, who need a little bit of hope.
Eric Johnson:Right.
Dr. Amber Narro:So that when they get out, if they are able to reenter society, can have some sort of hope and some sort of, appreciation for the arts and the people around them. And she has she has been bringing creative works into into prison.
Eric Johnson:Teaching them how to write poetry, exploring their creative side.
Dr. David Sesser:Yeah.
Eric Johnson:And she she will speak about that as well. But she's also a it makes her sound like a very serious poet. And she is, but she's also very funny. She is charming. She is.
Eric Johnson:She can make you laugh. She can make you cry all in one poem.
Dr. Amber Narro:She is. And like She's a great speaker. Oh my gosh.
Eric Johnson:Great reader.
Dr. Amber Narro:She is a fantastic speaker. And when she speaks, you feel like she is talking to you. Yes. Because she is so poetic
Eric Johnson:Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:Pardon the pun here, in her delivery
Dr. David Sesser:Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:That she it just it truly feels like you're the only person in the room when she's talking to you. And I have seen her talk to one or dozens or hundreds of people, and it still feels the same. Like, she gives that respect to every audience no matter the size, even if it's just one to one. So We
Eric Johnson:had her at the Art Center a little over a year ago. Yeah. And she was just delightful. I mean, her poetry is approachable. It is, it comes from her, her life, her being in Louisiana.
Sue Gautier:Yeah.
Dr. David Sesser:It's a
Eric Johnson:heavy Louisiana, feel to it. But it is just witty and clever and heartwarming sometimes and from the heart.
Dr. Amber Narro:She has a presence about her, you know, and I mean that in several definitions of that world word as in like when she's when she's in the room, obviously she carries herself very well, she is she is in the moment, she's there, but she's also present, Right? Like, she has this, I am engaged fully in what I'm doing right now. And I feel like she just does this, like, really not a lot of people can do.
Eric Johnson:Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:You know? Especially given the accolades that she has and the responsibility that she carried with being the Louisiana poet laureate that she really had that responsibility to make sure that her art was celebrated in in that moment. But then she took it a further through service and really kinda pounding the and and using some dollars that were allocated her in this role. Yep. To do some really great things.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah. And I just.
Eric Johnson:And things that a lot of people wouldn't wouldn't do. They wouldn't want to do.
Dr. Amber Narro:Indeed. And to know her
Eric Johnson:is to absolutely applaud her for her efforts. Mhmm. And for her her brilliance as a poet.
Dr. Amber Narro:Indeed. Indeed. Heart, soul, spirit, intelligence,
Eric Johnson:she's which been she's won accolades. She's won awards. She's won, fellowships. She has five or six books of poetry published. And they're all delightful.
Eric Johnson:They're just just wonderful.
Dr. Amber Narro:I see a quote here in your, in in your press release from Elton Glaser who said that no other poet sounds like Pellegrin, and that's a sure sign of a writer at the top of her game. Yeah. So
Eric Johnson:And I and I like the next one that the
Dr. Amber Narro:former break
Eric Johnson:your heart. Applauds her ability to make me laugh and break my heart in the same
Dr. Amber Narro:way. Yes.
Eric Johnson:Indeed. She does that.
Dr. Amber Narro:Indeed. So, we and this is Southeastern has been awarded for a lot of our people who who are in the in in our English Department of English. Right. Here at Southeastern and we are excited that Allison is among them because she is certainly deserving of what Absolutely. This Glad to have her.
Dr. Amber Narro:Alright. So how do we participate Well in this event?
Sue Gautier:See, that's the key to everything, to raise money, to do all of these wonderful things that David and Eric have talked about. Well, we have online registration. Many people have probably already gotten the, the membership information in the mail if you're already a member, but you can sign up online. You just find the library on Southeastern's site and it'll guide you there. I do want to say Eric mentioned lifetime membership which I'm pretty sure is still at $500, but I'm gonna tell you it is a priceless thing to have because my husband and I have had a lifetime membership for quite some time now, and it's just I don't know.
Sue Gautier:I just it makes you feel like you're really doing a part to help with this and you get a table and you can invite, like Eric said, some non members and once they get a look at the library and I have invited people to our table who have never been in the library before. They didn't go to Southeastern or maybe they did. You know, don't know
Dr. Amber Narro:but for some reason, they've never been in the library.
Sue Gautier:Shame on you. But anyway, they kept going after that and they kept coming to our events and they also mentioned,
Dr. Amber Narro:I was
Sue Gautier:kind of backing up a little bit. It is about fundraising. We we garnered more money this year at our wine tasting than we ever had before and practically sold out. So, when that comes around in the fall, you need to jump on that because that's a really nice evening and but I know today we're talking about the tea and it's like, you know, we've all been to teas before. This is the real deal.
Sue Gautier:You know, it's not just, okay. We're gonna have a tea and try to get some members. This is really it's a fine tea. And like I said, it's it's just wonderful. Finger sandwiches, scones, so many kinds of teas in any way you want.
Sue Gautier:You you know, it's just it's a meal. It's what it has. It's a meal and you will
Dr. Amber Narro:love. So, you're not walking away hungry.
Sue Gautier:You miss that. No. And then to to help make it maybe a little fun if you choose. We do have a bottomless mimosa that you can buy for $10 and that kind of goes along with a nice afternoon. It is on March 7.
Sue Gautier:It begins at 2PM. Doors will open at 01:45. You like I said, you can, you can sign up for this in advance, and we need you to sign up in advance because we do need a head count because we we do have limited space, but we have space. We're it's downstairs in the library, which we all enjoy that space. It's just beautiful, and it'll be at 02:00 in the afternoon with the sun shining.
Sue Gautier:And it's just it's a fun and neat and cool way to spend your afternoon. And you're raising money for the library. Love Which we love so much.
Eric Johnson:What we've added as of last year was a VIP hour before that. So, for an extra, small fee, you can come, and have champagne and do one on one with the author. So champagne and some, refreshments before the tea.
Sue Gautier:And while we're talking about cost, the cost for non members is $35 if you sign up. You know, when you sign up ahead of time, but that will give you the membership. So, you know, every year, as long as you renew your membership, the tea is your thank is our thanks to you for joining the Friends of the Library.
Dr. Amber Narro:Love that.
Sue Gautier:And the tables for six are also available for reserved tables are available for $250 And I will tell you the site, but we all know, www.southeastern.edu/library. And that's just the rest of it is, you know, you can find your way from there. And also, if you, you know, know someone who has Friends of Library, they can they can hook you up with all of the information and and get get you a spot at the table Right.
Eric Johnson:Or you can also call Sorry. (985) 549-3962, which is the library office, and they can give you the information, sign you up, tell you how to sign up, give you whatever you need.
Sue Gautier:There's an email as well, friends.sims@selu.edu. Excellent. So there's all kinds of ways to get, but, you know, if you if you just want a nice afternoon and you've you're gonna be doing a good thing for a lot of students who need this, please join us because I I don't think you'll be disappointed. Now, obviously, you're raising money for your fund for the Sims, Friends of Sims, right?
Dr. David Sesser:Mhmm.
Dr. Amber Narro:David, do you have this earmarked for anything or like big ideas or hopes for this particular fundraiser? What are we thinking for it?
Dr. David Sesser:Well, know, honestly, we wanna continue trying to change out the furniture, make it more comfortable, more accommodating for students, but also with the addition of honors to the building, with the evolution of the iHub, the future of Sims looks really, really bright. We're not sure what exactly Sims is gonna look like in a year, two years, three years down the road, but we have a lot of opportunity for growth, a lot of opportunity for change and to increase our services. So this money really gives us seed money to get that process started. One of the great things that the Friends do is they have this account and we can apply for grants and offer some of this money as a match, which increases our ability to go out and get external funding. And it has been successful so far and we hope to continue doing that in the near future.
Dr. Amber Narro:Very cool. Well, thank y'all for pouring into our library here at Southeastern and supporting students and faculty and the public because the public can use this library.
Sue Gautier:It's a joy to do, especially working with David and Eric.
Dr. Amber Narro:Indeed. Indeed. And we appreciate y'all for everything that you do to volunteer your time in in your semi retirement, I'll say, because you give so much back to the the community. It ain't all about you. So, you know, there's only one I in retirement but, you know, you guys you guys definitely make it a team
Eric Johnson:effort Pouring for wine at the Arts Center at every opening.
Dr. Amber Narro:So. Indeed. I love it. I love it. And I'm a heavy poorer.
Dr. Amber Narro:Where'd it go?
Sue Gautier:Just one tiny little detail. There is a deadline to register for this.
Dr. Amber Narro:There you go.
Sue Gautier:I'm going to tell you.
Dr. Amber Narro:Keep em straight.
Sue Gautier:Get get it while you can because Friday, February 27 or the February, that is our deadline for online registration and.
Eric Johnson:Excellent.
Sue Gautier:Well, actually, that's the checks. The online registration will go on to March 4. Fantastic. So, if you're mailing in the check, February 27 but online closes on the night of March 4.
Dr. Amber Narro:There you go. Love it. Love it. Thank y'all. Appreciate you.
Dr. Amber Narro:Thank you. Thanks for having us. Absolutely. I've been sitting here talking with Eric Johnson, Sue Gautier, as well as David Sesser. They are all supporters of the library here on campus in many different ways, and we appreciate all their service to the community.
Dr. Amber Narro:Don't forget, check out Facebook page, Friends of Sims Library, Friends of Sims Library, sorry, regularly for more information and upcoming library friends events and please invite your friends to come to this event. That's gonna be on March 7 at 02:00 at Sims. The deadline to register online is March 4. Make sure you go on there or give a call to 549-3962, and they can give you all the information about this beautiful, lovely annual event, the Marjorie Morrison Memorial Members' Tee, March 7, 02:00. Come on out.
Dr. Amber Narro:And thank you for listening here on Thursdays and Fridays at 09:00 to the Lions Roundtable, ninety point nine FM KSOU. I'm Amber Narro. Y'all have a great day.
