Full Name: Chrystie Hill
City: Seattle
State/Province: US-WA
Groups:
Community First: Connecting People and Service through the Decades, Does Your PAC Have Impact?, Gaming in the Library, Green Libraries, Group: Experience WJ Project, Group: Topic Moderators, Group: Tough Times, Group: Welcome Wagon, Group: WJ Feature Requests, Group: WorldCat.org Librarians’ Corner, Library 2.0 Interest Group
Interests:
About Me
I'm a librarian and online community builder with lots of enthusiasm. In May 2009, I'll publish my first book "Inside, Outside, and Online: building your library community."
Full Name: Sharon Streams
City: Seattle
State/Province: US-WA
Affiliations:
WebJunction, Arizona, British Columbia, Connecticut, Georgia, Global Council, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Learning & Support Ctr, Maine, Minnesota, Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington
Groups:
Community First: Connecting People and Service through the Decades, Group: Cookbook Contributors, Group: Experience WJ Project, Group: The Customer Voice, Group: Tough Times, Learning, Library 2.0 Interest Group, Library Innovators, Social Learning for Staff Development, The Navigators
Interests:
About Me
I love the written word--when it is written well.
Full Name: Michael Porter
City: Seattle
State/Province: US-WA
Affiliations:
WebJunction, Arizona, Connecticut, EqualAccess, Georgia, Global Council, Government Information in the 21st Century, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Learning & Support Ctr, Maine, Minnesota, Ohio, Rhode Island, Rural & Small Libraries, Spanish Language Outreach Program, Washington
Groups:
Community First: Connecting People and Service through the Decades, CPLAMTAZ09, Flickr & Libraries, Gaming in the Library, GROUP: Collaborative Learning Pilot (Internal Staff), Group: Cookbook Contributors, Group: Experience WJ Project, Group: Library Staff Who Play WoW, Group: StoryTubes, Group: The Customer Voice, Group: Tough Times, Group: WALT (Washington Library Trainers), Group: Wimba Guru, Group: WJ Feature Requests, Group: WorldCat.org Librarians’ Corner, Learning, Library 2.0 Interest Group, Library Innovators, Library Society of the World, Living Library Project, Nebraska 2008 WiFi Connectivity Grant, Nebraska Librarians, One Person Libraries, Personal Information Management, The Navigators, WordPress for Libraries (wp4lib)
Interests:
About Me
I'm a librarian, presenter, author, practical tech booster and PEZ collector. I work at WebJunction as the "Interactive Strategy Manager". That means at WebJunction I get to help ideas, people and libraries come together for a living. Best. Job. Ever. :) Travel, food, gadgets and digital multimedia happily suck up the rest of my time.
You can contact me at porterm **at sign** oclc.org
and at michael.libraryman ((at sign)) gmail.com
Full Name: Laura Zingg
City: Seattle
State/Province: US-WA
Affiliations:
WebJunction, Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Government Information in the 21st Century, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Learning & Support Ctr, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, OCLC Research, OCLC Training Portal, Ohio, OU Sports Management, Resource Sharing, Rhode Island, Rural & Small Libraries, Spanish Language Outreach Program, Training Portal, Training Portal - Training Pages, Washington
Groups:
Group: Affiliation Approval Process, GROUP: Collaborative Learning Pilot (Internal Staff), Group: Controlling Course Enrollments, Group: Experience WJ Project, Group: GA WebJunction Georgia, Group: Online Conference Planners, Group: The Customer Voice, Group: Tough Times, Group: Training Portal Group, Group: Training Rules!, Group: Welcome Wagon, Group: Wimba Admins, Group: Wimba Guru, Group: WJ Advisory Boards, Kansas Creativity, Library 2.0 Interest Group, National Library New Technologies Interest Group, The Navigators, WordPress for Libraries (wp4lib)
Interests:
About Me
Welcome to WebJunction! I've been with WJ for 3 years and I work with state library organizations to implement and manage their WJ partner sites.
All of our state library partners are doing amazing work with community building and continuing education. You can learn more by visiting our Affiliated Partners page.
In my free time I love to sew, discover new music, books, films and food and ride my bike around Seattle.
Full Name: Kendra Morgan
City: Seattle
Affiliations:
WebJunction, Demo Library, Illinois, Learning & Support Ctr, Maine, Opportunity Online, Rural & Small Libraries, Spanish Language Outreach Program, Training Portal - Training Pages, Washington
Groups:
CPLAMTAZ09, Green Libraries, Group: Experience WJ Project, Group: Topic Moderators, Group: Wimba Guru, Library 2.0 Interest Group, The Navigators
About Me
I'm the TechAtlas project coordinator at WebJunction.
Full Name: Bobbi Newman
City: Jefferson City
State/Province: US-MO
Affiliations:
WebJunction
Groups:
Gaming in the Library, Group: Experience WJ Project, Group: Tough Times, Library 2.0 Interest Group, Library Society of the World, WordPress for Libraries (wp4lib)
Interests:
About Me
I am a librarian, a teacher, and a trainer.
I am a Digital Services Librarian. I manage my library’s online contact with patrons. I work at the reference desk, manage collection development for several areas, train patrons and staff, assist with public programs like Game Days, serve on committees.
I am an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Missouri, School of Information Science & Learning Technologies.
I create and teach workshops for libraries and their staff in a range of topics including; the Social Web, using web 2.0 professionally, gaming in libraries and reference services in the digital age.
In my spare time I try to keep up with library news, read blogs, attend conferences, unconferences and workshops, write this blog, and occasionally read a book or two.
Full Name: Kelley Beeson
City: Pittsburgh
State/Province: US-PA
Affiliations:
WebJunction
Groups:
Flickr & Libraries, Library 2.0 Interest Group, Library Innovators, Social Learning for Staff Development
Interests:
About Me
I like: rummaging through old LPs to put into cool frames; picking out the sour apple jelly belly jelly beans; caressing flower petals; admiring the color orange; clipping coupons and drinking yummy teas; sugary substances, gum, shakin' my groove thang, intellectualizing and giggling
Full Name: Cindi Hickey
City: Topeka
State/Province: US-KS
Affiliations:
WebJunction, Kansas, Learning & Support Ctr, OCLC Training Portal, Rural & Small Libraries, Spanish Language Outreach Program
Groups:
Community First: Connecting People and Service through the Decades, Everyday Ethics Learning Project, Group: Controlling Course Enrollments, Group: Experience WJ Project, Group: The Customer Voice, Group: Trustee Roles and Responsibilities, Group: Wimba Guru, Kansas Creativity, KLAEF Leadership Task Force, Learning, Library 2.0 Interest Group, Social Learning for Staff Development
Interests:
About Me
I am the WebJunction Kansas coordinator and work with continuing education for the State Library of Kansas. I have worked with Kansas libraries since 1993. For several years I worked as a private consultant in the areas of library technology, planning and leadership. During the past 15 years I have watched online information activity explode from my early days as a Gopher addict. Barrels of fun for me being involved in the launch of a social networked WebJunction. Looks like my online dreams are coming true. Time to update them.
Full Name: Mara Siegel
Groups:
Group: CE Coordinators Forum -- August 2008, Group: Experience WJ Project, Group: Vermont Continuing Education, Group: Wimba Guru, Learning, Library 2.0 Interest Group, Library Society of the World, One Person Libraries, WordPress for Libraries (wp4lib)
About Me
I am a librarian and an information architect. I am the systems librarian and technical services librarian at Tompkins-Cortland Community College Library.
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Full Name: Christa Burns
City: Lincoln
State/Province: US-NE
Affiliations:
WebJunction, Opportunity Online, Rural & Small Libraries, Spanish Language Outreach Program
Groups:
Gaming in the Library, Group: Experience WJ Project, Group: Library Staff Who Play WoW, Group: WJ Feature Requests, Library 2.0 Interest Group, Library Society of the World, Nebraska CatExpress Libraries, Nebraska Librarians
Interests:
About Me
Christa Burns is the Special Projects Librarian, Technology & Access Services, at the Nebraska Library Commission. She provides organization, training, and consultation for special projects, such as the Gates Foundation grants for libraries, E-rate, Learning 2.0, and group purchases of library products and services. Previously, she was the OCLC Member Services Coordinator for NEBASE, the OCLC Regional Service Provider for Nebraska, presenting sessions and training on OCLC products and services at conferences and meetings across Nebraska. In her spare time, Christa is a gamer, bibliophile, floriculturist, ferret and cat minion.
Full Name: Peter Bromberg
City: Gibbsboro
State/Province: US-NJ
Affiliations:
WebJunction, Learning & Support Ctr
Groups:
Group: Experience WJ Project, Group: The Customer Voice, Learning, Library 2.0 Interest Group, Library Society of the World, Personal Information Management, Social Learning for Staff Development
Interests:
I am the Assistant Director at the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative
(SJRLC), a multi-type consortium in New Jersey. One of my main duties is to
provide continuing education opportunities to library staff in the 630+
libraries in the southern seven counties of New Jersey.
I am proud to have helped develop and manage QandANJ.org, New Jersey's 24/7
virtual reference service. We were the first 24/7 collaborative virtual
reference service, and sometimes I get asked to go somewhere and talk about how
we "did it good".
My ALA activities include a three year stint as Secretary for ALA's
Continuing
Library Education Network and Exchange Round Table (CLENE). I currently serve as
membership chair and webmaster for CLENE, and recently developed CEBuzz (http://cebuzz.wordpress.org)
a collaborative blog that addresses continuing education and staff development.
I am also very involved in the planning of ALA's Emerging Leaders program.
Locally, I have served as Chair of NJLA's Professional Development Committee,
co-Chaired New Jersey's Train-the-Trainer program and actively develop and
present for our "Super Library Supervisors" series.
I enjoy speaking and presenting, and currently serve as President of a
Toastmasters club for librarians. I'd be happy to talk to other librarians who
are interested in setting up their own local chapter.
In my spare time I play as much tennis as I can and have been enjoying learning
improv over the past year or two, and recently began taking guitar lessons.
COACHING
I have been offering personal coaching services (sometimes called life coaching,
or executive coaching) since July, 2006. I am still learning how to do it, but
seem to have a natural ability for it and enjoy it quite a bit. I am receiving
training on how to be an effective coach from one of the best -- a former
President of the NJ Coaches Association.
If you are interested in learning more about coaching, or think you may find
value in being coached, check out my coaching page, or get
in touch with me.
In addition to continuing education and staff development, I am very interested
in customer service (aka customer experience) and the idea of "library as
place". These interests and ideas are often informed by my experience working at
Nordstrom. Sometimes I blab about these and other topics at my blog, Library
Garden (http://librarygarden.blogspot.com)
. Complete info about me me me is available at my homepage:
peterbromberg.com
Full Name: Amy Kearns
City: Freehold
State/Province: US-NJ
Affiliations:
WebJunction, Spanish Language Outreach Program
Groups:
CJRLC, Gaming in the Library, Group: Experience WJ Project, Learning, Library 2.0 Interest Group, Library Society of the World
Interests:
About Me
I am the Program Coordinator for the Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative in NJ. We cover Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean counties. I formerly worked as the Head of Reference for the Paterson Free Public Library, in Paterson, NJ, and before that as a Librarian at the Clifton (NJ) Public Library.
I have been involved with WebJunction's Spanish Language Outreach Program, attending their institute in Seattle and then working with them on the webinars!
I am very interested in technology and social software, as well as gaming and literacy. I love reading, being on the computer, knitting and traveling.
I received my MLIS from Rutgers (SCILS) in 2003 and am currently a part-time lecturer for the School of Communication, Information and Library Science there.
I think WebJunction is awesome! :-)
Full Name: Bob Watson
City: Lake Villa
State/Province: US-IL
Groups:
Group: Experience WJ Project, Group: Tough Times, Group: Trustee Roles and Responsibilities, Library 2.0 Interest Group, Library Innovators, Library Society of the World
Interests:
About Me
Online since mid-90s. Used to publish in the professional journals (to little notice) and took to conversing with library users (who often understood what I was talking about). Active in online communities, am currently discussion host in one, have been a host in several.
Director of a middlin' sized public library (we just cracked 1,000,000 circs this year -- 2007/08). I believe in professionalism, delegation, and management by wandering around.
My "mantra" is a question for staff ... "What can I do for you today?" I figure my job is to empower them, not to micromanage them.
