{"id":869,"date":"2010-02-26T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/news\/?p=869"},"modified":"2013-09-30T12:39:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:39:30","slug":"laird-leathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2010\/02\/26\/laird-leathers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Circulation Supervisor: Laird Leathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/new-hire-laird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8134\" alt=\"Laird Leathers\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/new-hire-laird.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laird has returned to the position of Circulation Day Supervisor after a brief dalliance within the medical field.\u00a0 Prior to his first experience with the library at UTC, he spent the better part of 20 years in retail management, so customer service holds great importance for him.\u00a0 He\u2019s excited to return to UTC and has certainly missed the interaction with students, faculty and staff alike.<\/p>\n<p>Laird is an Illinois native, and his interests include sports (most notably, baseball, basketball and football), horror movies\/books, the culinary arts and traveling the Western U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laird has returned to the position of Circulation Day Supervisor after a brief dalliance within the medical field.\u00a0 Prior to his first experience with the library at UTC, he spent the better part of 20 years in retail management, so customer service holds great importance for him.\u00a0 He\u2019s excited to return to UTC and has&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2010\/02\/26\/laird-leathers\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10713],"class_list":{"0":"post-869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-personnel","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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