By Anna Moorhouse on Mar 15, 2018
As an Executive Coordinator during UBC Library, Harry Young works closely with a University Librarian during their term, occupying a singular position on staff. But before he assimilated a Library, Harry worked in hospitality. “For a prolonged time in Toronto, we worked in a grill business,” he says. “And when we changed behind to BC—where I’m from—I worked in a business a bit, though afterwards we motionless to make a accordant bid to get out of that exciting, nonetheless burdensome world.”
Through a few short-term contracts with UBC Hiring Solutions (previously Staff Finders), Harry eventually took a position on a Library Administration group in 2009.
With scarcely a decade of knowledge during UBC Library, his purpose has developed to take on new challenges. Recently, he’s been some-more concerned in ancillary a growth group and coordinating certain repeated library events. Harry has also been heavily concerned in UBC’s United Way campaign, carrying launched a annual Spelling Bee in 2010. The Spelling Bee, that invites appearance from students, staff and expertise opposite campus, continues to be an impossibly renouned eventuality for a United Way and UBC Library.
Outside of work, Harry can mostly be found on tennis courts—usually Stanley Park in a summer and during a North Van Tennis Centre in a winter. He has been an eager actor many of his adult life and is a long-time house member of a Vancouver Tennis Association. He also spasmodic serves as an on-court referee for Tennis BC and Tennis Canada.
Community building is a repeated member of Harry’s success—both in and out of a Library—which is because he suggests new employees during a Library start by reaching out. “I wasn’t really good during that, we have to say, though I’m improved now. Walk around. Go revisit other departments and deliver yourself, only casually. Take a travel to any of a libraries branches and get to know everyone. You never know where it could lead.”
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