Chapter 17, Fall 2021
Library Limelight: Jaime Kopke Monnie Nilsson
Can you give us a short overview of a typical day in your department? What’s your favorite part of your daily work and of your job overall? PEO programs specific spaces in the library and also coordinates the library’s larger scale happenings. I enjoy how varied the work is, it changes from day to day and all throughout the year. We are constantly collaborating with community partners which brings a new element to every project. Our days consist of lots of meetings, working at the computer, and running programs. A day may find us writing up reports, scheduling new events, and filling in budgets or helping to hang artwork in the gallery… constantly reminding people to please use the hanging system. They never listen. Name the cities you’ve lived in prior to working at BPL. Which was your favorite and why?
Jaime Kopke, Program, Events and Outreach Manager with Sam Barsky, known for his pictorial knitting projects.
How long have you worked at the Boulder Public Library? Just a little over five years. Tell us one thing about yourself that might surprise us.
Boston to Austin to New Orleans to Denver to London to Denver and now Golden. Even though I wasn’t that enthralled by London when I lived there, I now often find myself feeling nostalgic about it. The summer I was (supposed to be) writing my dissertation we lived in a little town on the French coast called Guethary. I could easily move back to France, it was the most beautiful place I’ve been. Beaches, baguettes, slow living.
A few years after college I had an apprenticeship down in New Orleans with a wallpaper company called Flavor Paper. It got me interested in design. I ran a design blog for years and wrote for other design websites and magazines. I used to travel all over the world to design fairs to write about new trends and designers. 3
