Obligatory introduction (or, First!)

January 27, 2010

Hello! I’m in my final semester of my MLS at Indiana University’s Indianapolis campus and I’ve been meaning to start a library blog for a long time. I work in a university library and a synagogue library and have done an internship in a public library’s teen services department. I’m also an officer in IUPUI’s Association of Library and Information Science Students (ALISS) and the School of Library and Information Science’s representative to the Graduate Student Organization. I’d like to become a teen services librarian, but generally I’m interested in public libraries, youth services, Teen Advisory Boards, partnerships between public and school libraries, social networking and new media, privacy and copyright issues, gaming in libraries, and intergenerational programming.

I’m still developing my library skills and librarian identity, so I do a lot of thinking about the values of librarianship, controversies in librarianship, and the way libraries interact with the rest of the world. I wanted a place to collect some of those thoughts and post interesting bits of news, links to other great library thinkers, or provide reaction pieces to articles I read. I’m sure that as I grow as a librarian, this blog will, too–and I’m looking forward to that!

One note: I came up with the name “Librarified” independently and when I Googled it to see if it was already in use, I did find a LiveJournal with the same name by someone named Jamie Davis, but as there have been no new posts there in over a year and I’ve been unable to contact Jamie, I’m going to step in and use the name. I should be clear, though, that I have absolutely no connection to that journal or to its original author.

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