Debut
I’ve worked as a database manager for a British internet startup company, the director of a rural public library, in circulation in Scarborough, Maine, and currently the web manager at the University of New Hampshire Library I’m enrolled in the Information School distance program at the at Syracuse University. When I graduate in May 2006, I’ll hold a MLIS-DL which loosely translates as a Master of Library and Information Science with a Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries. As you might guess my particular interest is in interface development, information architecture and exploring the possibilities that libraries, large and small, can use to evolve and remain relevant as we move into the future. I’m further involved in the specific technology plight of rural public libraries and the extra challenges that face them.
I believe firmly that libraries are fast approaching a judgement day and must be working hard now to establish their importance in a social climate where information, convenience, and communication become power and currency. This is the traditional arena of libraries, yet I feel them stumbling and falling when faced with competition and its fast pace. It’s sink or swim; it’s fight or flight; it’s the gloaming before the dawn.
