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.
Tags: librarians, me, rural libraries, social software, techology
January 22nd, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Thank your for posting the photo. Good to know what you look like before I try to find you at the IST commencement exercises in May!
January 23rd, 2006 at 9:57 pm
[...] And here’s the library connection: We will all struggle with questions of relevancy in this new world. Inevitably, this will require us to examine our core values and change our services, but the results will be magical. As never before has the technology been available to so connect questions with answers, patrons with libraries. [...]
February 21st, 2006 at 5:09 pm
[...] I don’t usually participate in these things, for some reason. I found I couldn’t resist the Springfield Public Library Pool. Especially as I watched more and more get added and once I looked at how they’re built, I was hooked. Four hours later (perhaps this is why I don’t usually participate - call it obsessive, if you must. I say attention to detail), I’m left with Simpsons doppelganger. I think think she might have better legs than me. But, I certainly have her beat in the lower lip department, so I’ll call it a draw. I’m pretty pleased with the likeness, actually, right down to the blue eyes. Although I could have improved on the scene. Or thought of something super clever to say in the caption. Oh well, I wasted this week’s zingers on Dick Cheney, like everyone else, I guess. [...]
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:00 pm
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June 14th, 2007 at 5:10 am
This one makes sence “One’s first step in wisdom is to kuesstion everything - and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.”