University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition

My father-in-law gave this book to me when I started my career. The author didn’t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave — “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” — wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment. “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”