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Lib Chat Vitals CURRENT POSITION Librarian University Hospital Limerick, Ireland DEGREE MLIS, University College Dublin, 2009 FOLLOW @libfocus; @mishdalton; #irelibchat; www.libfocus.com; www.michelledalton.ie When Michelle Dalton finished library school in Dublin in 2009, she graduated into a tough professional climate with few available jobs. After nine months as an unpaid intern cataloging at the National Library [...]
Humanist at Work Vitals CURRENT POSITION Youth Librarian Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR DEGREE MLIS, UCLA, 2008 CHAIR Orientations Committee, ALA New Members Round Table ON HER WALL A postcard of a little girl and the question, “Do you UBUNTU?” McCurtis explains, “Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘Humanity to others’ ” and the name [...]
Open “Sourcerer” Vitals CURRENT POSITION Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Duluth, GA DEGREE BS, Mathematics, Millersville University, PA, 1998 EBOOKS Charlton and his wife, an LJ reviewer, have moved most of their 4,500-volume personal book collection into a digital library, but there’s one series he’ll always have in hard copy: J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy The [...]
DIY Mind-Set Vitals CURRENT POSITION Scholarly Communications Librarian Florida State University, Tallahassee DEGREE MLIS, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 2011 COMMUNITY hacklibschool.wordpress.com FOLLOW @micahvandegrift; micahvandegrift.com; www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org; micahvandegrift.tumblr.com Photo by Stuart Rochford, Technology Center Coordinator Micah Vandegrift’s first job after getting his MLIS from Florida State University (FSU) in 2011 was as a part-time project manager for [...]
Winner’s Wii World Vitals CURRENT POSITION Teacher Librarian Longfellow Elementary School, Columbia, MD DEGREES MS, School Library Media, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD, 2009; BS, Elementary Education, Towson University, MD, 2005 RECOGNITION Maryland Outstanding User of Technology Educator, 2012, Maryland Society for Educational Technology FOLLOW @MatthewWinner; busylibrarian.com; The Level Up Book Club; wiilearning.wikispaces.com Photo by Larry [...]
An Untangled Web Vitals CURRENT POSITION Web Services Librarian Grand Valley State University Libraries, Allendale, MI DEGREE MLIS, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 2010 Spare Time Check out his online cartoon strip, High Maintenance Machine FOLLOW @mreidsma; matthew.reidsrow.com; gvsu.edu/library/; github.com/gvsulib As a library website designer and librarian, Matthew Reidsma wants people to locate information; he doesn’t want [...]
Coding Power Vitals CURRENT POSITION Founding Team Member, Unglue.it, Somerville, MA DEGREE MSLIS, Simmons College, Boston, 2010; MA, Classics, Tufts, Medford, MA, 2003 FOLLOW @thatandromeda; andromedayelton.com; Unglue.it Photo by Ron Wurzer/Getty Images for Library Journal “A few years into teaching middle school Latin, I discovered there are very special people who can teach middle school [...]
From Sandbox to BookBot Vitals CURRENT POSITION Head of Information Technology North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh DEGREE MLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003 FOLLOW @mauriceyork; www.lib.ncsu.edu/huntlibrary; www.learningspacetoolkit.org Photo by Marc Hall When the cutting-edge James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University (NCSU) opened in January 2013, the media went mad [...]
Xtra Help with LibX Vitals CURRENT POSITION Assistant Director for Electronic Resources and Emerging Technology Services Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University Libraries, Blacksburg DEGREE MLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001 FOLLOW libx.org Photo by Ron Wurzer/Getty Images for Library Journal Around Virginia Tech University Libraries, Annette Bailey is known for her “determination, drive, [...]
Experience Guy Vitals CURRENT POSITION User Experience Librarian, Department of Instruction and Emerging Technology Miami University Libraries, Oxford, OH DEGREE MLIS, Simmons College, Boston, 2007 FOOT RACE Started running two years ago and is “nerding out on it”; ran a marathon and is training for an ultramarathon FOLLOW @jpmichel; @miamiulibraries; www.lib.miamioh.edu/news_and_notes Photo by Jeffrey Sabo, [...]
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