Contributors
Here you can find out more about all of us on the Librations Team. We’re glad to meet you! Feel free to contact us for more information or to learn how to become a Librations contributor.
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Ben Beckett [Collection Development Coordinator] is an Acquisitions Associate at the University of Michigan Library and an excellent cook.
Favorite beer: Founders’ Red Rye.
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Jen Bonnet [Court Jester] is a student at the University of Michigan School of Information and a University Library Associate at the Hatcher Graduate Library. Like Meredith, she collects masters degrees.
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Carrie Broadwell-Tkach [Publisher] is an Assistant Editor (promotion! woot!) in the acquisitions department at Rowman & Littlefield in Colorado. She will be providing the content-providers’ perspective from time to time.
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Katie Dover-Taylor [Co-Founder & Creative Director] is currently looking for library or information jobs in the Detroit metro area. (Katie’s posts.)
Brief autobiography: I prefer to be whelmed (as opposed to under- or overwhelmed).
Social Media Watch: Find me on ALA Connect, at quintessential chronicles of kdt, on twitter, google chat, facebook, flickr, youtube, or linkedin.
Favorite LCSH: I love that blue Find It! poster that tells you all about which letters correspond to which subjects.
Favorite beer: Non-alcoholic champagne, which is not a beer (phrase citation: Melissa Gomis — see below).
Favorite Librations: (Web Site Story, Nerds in Possible Like, Welcome to Mafia’s Media Center, Millennial Mania)
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Megan Esseltine [Colonel Awesome] works in public libraries in the Southeast Michigan area.
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Melissa Gomis [Mayor of Funville] is hard to miss. She is currently the Instructional Technology Librarian at the University of Michigan, where she works in a cave. (Melissa’s posts.)
Favorite LCSH: I prefer folksonomies.
Favorite beer: Gin, which is not a beer.
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Greg Grossmeier [Copyright Advisor & Community Organizer] is awesome. He works for Creative Commons and Open Michigan. Great beard. (Greg’s posts.)
Brief autobiography: I’m a contributor to Librations. Also, see this this page of lists.
Social Media Watch: Find me on some internets.
Favorite LCSH: call numbers?
Favorite beer: [censored]
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Emily Hamstra [Co-Founder & Prime Matriarch] is currently an Undergraduate Learning Librarian at the University of Michigan, Shapiro Undergraduate Library. (Emily’s posts.)
Brief autobiography: I’m a reader. I have a rich inner life.
Social Media Watch: facebook, twitter, goodreads, ALA connect, flickr, skype. I also have a cell phone and often use the USPS.
Favorite LCSH: PSs
Favorite beer: anything brewed by Founders.
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Andy Hickner [Mae West Impersonator] is a 2nd year at Michigan’s SI and works at the Health Sciences Libraries and the School of Nursing at UM.
Brief autobiography: According to the Lazy Librarian’s Best Friend, I am an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol. Known for my bawdy double entendres, I made a name for myself in Vaudeville and on the stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and writer in the motion picture industry. Now I’m a iGeek in Ann Arbor.
Social Media Watch: I am over social media. Especially Twitter. On second thought, I find UrbanDictionary pretty useful.
Favorite LCSH: “West, Mae”
Favorite beer: Gulden Draak
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anand jay [Information-Based Healer] is a liberationist librarian. this means sometimes he’s angry about the way things are going, and when he’s angry about stupid bullshit, he likes to play with it. his philosophy is simple: “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it. if it is broken, for the love of everything, don’t pretend it’s not! see how you can help fix it!” growl or purr? you decide. (Anand’s posts.)
Brief autobiography: living it in these very moments!
Social Media Watch: facebook, but all this internet jobby is so tiring after a while.
Favorite LCSH: H’s, E’s, B’s, P’s, and Z’z.
Favorite beer: ginger root.
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Julie Judkins [Rum-Runner] is currently a Digital Librarian at the University of Michigan’s Center for the History of Medicine. (Julie’s posts.)
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Meredith Kahn [Career Development Liaison] is the Art & Architecture Librarian at the University of Colorado, Boulder. (Meredith’s posts.)
Brief autobiography: I won an award for helping my friends find jobs.
Social Media Watch: facebook, flickr, and ArLiSNAP.org. I don’t tweet because I spend too much time reading the New York Times online in print.
Favorite LCSH: NAs & TRs
Favorite beer: Fruity lambics.
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Joy Kim [Geek Burbler] will eat your social media for breakfast, and by lunchtime when you bring her a sandwich, she’ll have pounded your feeds into a web sensation.
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Mark Kuehn [Future Librarian of Congress] might go to SI at some point, but he’s deferred his admission until 2010. In the meantime, he does some work behind the scenes at the Library of Congress.
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Ryan Lankton [Legal Eagle] is well-versed in the vicissitudes of the American Constitution. He’ll be your lawbrarian, for the right price.
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Jamie Lausch [Artist in Residence] is a second year student at the University of Michigan School of Information, a University Library Associate at UM’s Art, Architecture & Engineering Library, and a Curatorial Research Center Intern at the UM Museum of Art. (Jamie’s posts.)
Brief autobiography: Art books. I would like to help you find them.
Social Media Watch: Find me on Facebook and Twitter (porcellinilibri), naturally.
Favorite LCSH: NDs, of course!
Favorite beer cocktail: Manhattan
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Chrysta Meadowbrooke [Homeopathic Librarian] is quite a catch flattered but really just a regular ol’ librarian wannabe. She keeps herself busy and will graduate from the School of Information at the University of Michigan in December April because she’s a little school-crazy. With Quinn, she runs Friday Beer: First Life Edition. She also works as a reference assistant at the Health Sciences Libraries and as a research assistant for some SI professors on a project destined to improve communication and information services for patients.
Brief autobiography: Brief? Can I get back to you on that?
Social Media Watch: Find me on twitter, facebook, google chat, and linkedin (once I actually start building up my linkedin page again, that is).
Favorite LCSHs: Rs and Ps. And Hs. And, um, Bs, and, well. . . I like ‘em all.
Favorite beer: Guinness, unless I’m drinking something I like better at the moment.
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Rafia Mirza [Captain Dr. SHINY] is the Librarian for English, History and Communication at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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Emily Petty Puckett [Community Development Associate] is really good at Community Informatics.
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Julie Piacentine [Social Media Sage] is currently a Public Services Librarian at the University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library.
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Raya Samet [Scholar in Residence] is a School Library Media Specialist finishing her MSI at the University of Michigan, where she was crowned Miss Information 2009. She currently works as a Public Library Associate  in Youth Services at the Ann Arbor District Library.  She’ll be student teaching in 2 metro-Detroit public schools starting in September.
Favorite beer: Young’s Double Chocolate Stout.
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Quinn Sanford [Head of Rhetoric & Composition] is currently in Alaska. In the fall, she will return to studying School Library Media at SI, student teaching in Ann Arbor, and working as a reference assistant at the Shapiro Undergraduate Library. With Chrysta, she runs Friday Beer: First Life Edition.
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Nicole Scholtz [Data Wiz] is a Social Science & Spatial Data Librarian at the University of Michigan.
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Josh Steverman [Shadow Contributor] is here for the free beer. (Josh’s posts.)
Brief autobiography: I tolerate librarians in exchange for beer.
Favorite beer: best value beer = volume/price.
EDITOR’s NOTE: A careful analysis suggests that the value of Josh’s Librations beer approaches infinity — (any volume beer)/($0)= undefined.
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Hung Truong [Chief Technical Officer] is too smart for his own good. You may recognize him from other websites such as Hung Truong: The Blog! (Hung’s posts.)
Brief autobiography: I want to legally add an en-dash to my name so my website url is canonical.
Social Media Watch: Find me on Xanga and Friendster.
Favorite LCSH: The one where Kaitlin gets stuck in an ice cream store after the earthquake.
Favorite beer: åä¾›ã®é£²ã¿ç‰©ã€‚
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Julie Weatherbee [iPhone Generation] is an Information Systems Training Specialist for Desktop Support Services at the University of Michigan Library. She was Emily and Katie’s first new friend when their office moved to the second floor of the UGLi, and we never looked back.
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Jonathan Yip [Toastmaster General] is a student in the University of Michigan Department of Linguistics. (Jonathan’s posts.)
Brief autobiography: I like talking to librarians.
Social Media Watch: Find me on facebook and twitter.
Favorite LCSH: Ps, PKs, PLs.
Favorite beer: Kastritzer Schwarzbier. And lambics.
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