KAREN SCHNEIDER is the Community Librarian at Equinox, the support and development company for Evergreen open source library software. Her library career path includes managing the popular portal Librarians’ Internet Index, managing a computer network for a public library, directorships in small rural and small special libraries, children's librarianship, adult reference, academic systems management, and running a one-person Internet training business. Before her library career, Karen was an aircraft maintenance officer in the U.S. Air Force. A native San Franciscan who has lived worldwide, Karen is a prolific writer who has published two books and over 100 magazine articles and blogs regularly at Free Range Librarian. She holds degrees from Barnard, University of Illinois (GSLIS 1992), and the University of San Francisco.
CINDI TRAINOR interviewed Karen for the Community First Project in 2008 (she also took this fabulous photo). DAVID FREE edited the audio files. Short and full-length interviews are linked with the MP3s above.
