About Me

I am a Reference and Research Services Librarian at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, and faculty liaison for the Humanities (as well as Mechanical, Electrical and Civil Engineering) My specialty is innovation and digital strategies in libraries.

Education:

As an undergrad at the University of Maine, I studied Mass Communications, specifically marketing and new media. My senior year, I took classes in video and audio production, which I loved, so I headed off to Emerson College in Boston for a masters in media production. It was there that I first learned how to build a webpage, which broadened my love of technology to include pretty much all forms of digital media.

After that I attended Rutgers for my MLIS, where I worked pretty intensively in digital archives (as the student project manager for the NJEDL and as archive assistant and consultant for the Institute of Jazz Studies.) As a consultant for Poet's House in NYC, I created AudioArchiving.net, an annotated web resource for all aspects of audio digitization and archiving.

Current research:

Currently, my interests lie chiefly in interactive technology, social media and multimedia archiving. I have a passion for technology and information, and especially society's interactions with them. I'm also fascinated by the nature of communication, language and the human mind, and spend way too much time thinking and analyzing things for my own good.

Oh yeah, and like any decent librarian, I wear glasses and have cats.

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