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Networking Queen Vitals CURRENT POSITION Program Analyst, Office of Science & Engineering Laboratories U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD DEGREE MS, Educational Technology, University of Arizona South, Sierra Vista, 2011; MIRLS, University of Arizona, Tucson, 2009 FOLLOW newfedsinfo.wordpress.com; about.me/jessica.hernandez; www.loc.gov/flicc/about/FLICC_WGs/newfeds.html Photo by Stanford Barouh Many new library professionals are pushing the boundaries of [...]
Driving Force Vitals CURRENT POSITION Outreach Services Librarian Arapahoe Library District, Centennial, CO DEGREE MLIS, University of Denver, 2008 FOLLOW www.arapahoelibraries.org Photo by Jim Larimer When mobile services librarian Richard Lyda started work at Arapahoe Library District in 2008, the bookmobile had just died. This pushed him into the fast lane. He used data and [...]
Words into Deeds Vitals CURRENT POSITION Reference Librarian and VP, Vermont Public Library Association Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center DEGREES MSLIS, Palmer School/Long Island University, Brookville, NY, 2011; MA, English Literature, University of Montana, Missoula, 2006 ADVOCACY rurallibrariansunite.org; www.literacyforincarceratedteens.org FOLLOW @willoughbrarian; lexsleuther.wordpress.com Photo by Daisy Benson Tackling huge professional challenges has become something of a [...]
Tumblarian No. 1 Vitals CURRENT POSITION Research Analyst Bank Of Montreal Business Research Group DEGREE MLIS, Dominican University, River Forest, IL, 2012 FUN FACT Played rugby in college FOLLOW thelifeguardlibrarian.tumblr.com; @lifegdlibrarian; dearlibrary.tumblr.com Photo by Ron Wurzer/Getty Images for Library Journal While still in graduate school, Kate Tkacik, now a research analyst at Bank of Montreal, [...]
Abre Biblioteca! Vitals CURRENT POSITION Librarian Center For Studies And Research Of The Amazon (nepeCAB) DEGREE MLS, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2000 FOLLOW, VISIT, LEARN cazadoresdebiblioteca.blogspot.com.br; www.institutolerparacrescer.org/2012/11/iii-barco-do-ler-para-crescer.html; biblioo.info Photo by Sebastião Alves The Amazon State Public Library, in Manaus, Brazil, closed in 2007 for renovation. Five years later, it was still closed. So was the [...]
Digital Transit Toolbox Vitals CURRENT POSITION Digital Resources Librarian Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority DEGREE MLS, UCLA, 1987 FOLLOW @MetroLibrary; www.metro.net/library; www.metroprimaryresources.info; losangelestransportation.blogspot.com; lacmtalibrary.tumblr.com By combining social media and the digitization of resources, digital resources librarian Kenn Bicknell has positioned the Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library as an innovative [...]
Info-Literacy Star Vitals CURRENT POSITION Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor Centre For Learning Technology, London School of Economics And Political Science, England DEGREE Ph.D., University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1999 Editor Journal of Information Literacy FOLLOW @jsecker; janesecker.wordpress.com; newcurriculum.wordpress.com; delilaopen.wordpress.com When Jane Secker started at the London School of Economics in late 2001, she noticed that [...]
Dynamic Duo Vitals Margaux DelGuidice CURRENT POSITION Teacher Librarian, Garden City High School, NY; Part-time Youth Services Librarian, Freeport Memorial Library, NY; Adjunct Professor, St. Joseph’s College, Patchogue, NY DEGREE MLS, St. John’s University, New York, 2004 FOLLOW @metadatachick; highschool.gardencity.k12.ny.us/ departments/library; makeanimpact.wikispaces.com Rose Luna CURRENT POSITION Teacher Librarian, Freeport High School, NY; Part-time Bilingual Reference Librarian; [...]
Story Time Superhero Vitals CURRENT POSITION Librarian, Child and Family Library Services Arapahoe Library District, Centennial, CO DEGREE MSLS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995 FOUNDING MEMBER Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy FLANNEL FRIDAYS flannelfridaystorytime.blogspot.com/ p/faqs.html FOLLOW @MelissaZD; melissa.depperfamily.net/blog Photo by Carrie Wigglesworth Melissa Depper has been a children’s librarian in the Arapahoe [...]
Library Liaison Vitals CURRENT POSITION Senior Information Services Librarian Trine University, Angola, IN DEGREES M.Ed, Educational Technology, 2009; MA, Information Science, 2008; both University of Missouri, Columbia ALL KNOWING libguides.trine.edu/profile.php?uid=19480 FOLLOW www.lpmagnuson.com Photo by Bill Eyster When Lauren Magnuson joined Trine University, a small, private, engineering institution in Indiana, as senior information services librarian in [...]
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