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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 [...]
Pro-Teen Vitals CURRENT POSITION Teen Librarian Portland Public Library, ME DEGREE MLS, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, 2008 MEMBER 2013 YALSA President’s Program Planning Task Force MIND-BLOWING QUOTE “The leader’s job is not to provide energy but to release it from others.”—Frances Hesselbein FOLLOW @JustinLibrarian; justinthelibrarian; TametheWeb.com Photo by Ron Wurzer/Getty Images for Library Journal “My [...]
Awesome: that’s the best way to describe the 2013 class of Movers & Shakers. This particular group may have more librarians working outside traditional libraries than ever before, attesting to the role librarians, and those in the library field, play in the larger world. Yet whatever their title or workplace, these Movers are making outsize contributions. This latest group of 50 (rolling out over the next week) brings the number of Movers to over 600. The Movers are quick to tell us they’re stand-ins for the many creative, diligent librarians, and others, building the library future. We know there are innumerable talented candidates, and we thank all of you who took the time to send in your nominations.
Edgy Library Girl Vitals CURRENT POSITION Teacher-Librarian Myrtle Grove Middle School, Wilmington, NC DEGREE MLS, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, 2007 FOLLOW @jenniferlagarde Library Girl School Library website Photo ©Sean McGinty Photography LLC You may know Jennifer LaGarde as one of the winners of the 2011 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times American Library [...]
Teacher of Dreams Vitals CURRENT POSITION Senior Librarian, Adult Services Santa Ana Public Library, CA DEGREE MLIS, San José State University, CA, 2009 KUDOS 2011 Woman of the Year Award in Education, National Hispanic Business Women Association INNOVATION Usted y Su Biblioteca (“You and Your Library”) Photo c/o Milly Lugo “Fifty-five is not only the [...]
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