My name is Dani Vaughn-Tucker and I am an Archivist, Reference Librarian and Adjunct History Instructor at Misericordia University. I have been working there for a year now and in that time I have made incredible strides both personally and professionally.

I have successfully integrated some aspects of Web 2.0 into the archives by putting pictures from the archives onto flickr
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/sistermarycarmelmcgariglearchives/). I am also in the process of creating a blog for the archives in order to let community members know about the different collections available in the archives (it’s not ready for prime time yet).

Lastly, and most importantly, I have made some valuable connections in libraryland and archival world that I would not have made had I not ventured into the the wonderful world of Library 2.0.

My team and I have managed to not only OPEN a new 10,000 sq ft facility only 2 years ago, but we’ve managed to ADD another 3,500 sq ft addition onto it a year later while never closing on a regular day of operation! Kudos to the Home Gardens Library Team for enduring 2 building projects in 3 yrs of each other!

View our Home Gardens Library blog for pics and updates.

posted by Jan Kuebel – Riverside County Library System, CA
(operated by LSSI)

Branch Manager/Web 2.something or other/Resident Plumber/Experienced Disabler of false Fire Alarms/Go between of Construction Contractors and County Big Wigs/Frequent sufferer of SOS (Shiny Object Syndrome)

I am Carolyne Sidey and I am the Manager of the Xerox Research Centre of Canada’s Library and have been for over 21 years. While this may look like a lack of initiative, I assure you it is not.

I thank you all for your confidence in me and my abilities. Without you I would never have won this prestigious Library Society of the World “Shover and Maker” award, let alone been nominated for it.

I have been a shover and a maker for many years and am finally rejoicing that someone else has recognized my unique talents.

After a degree in chemical engineering and a masters in library science, I am now in my 22nd year with Xerox. I am located in the postmodern structure at the corner of Winston Churchill and the QEW in Mississauga, ON, CANADA.

This last year, in order to win this award, I completed the following – among other things:

• updated internal library web pages
• negotiated contracts with a number of big name library suppliers
• developed and implemented a system to import all the MARC records for our ebook collection (over 12K titles) into our library catalogue
• worked really hard at understanding US/Canada corporate copyright agreements
• learned how to build things in Second Life
• twittered (tweeted?) like mad
• designed/implemented/populated a database of courses and conferences in our area of interest with web interface
• supported engineers, chemists, physicists, etc. at two locations in two countries, thousands of miles apart, and kept most of them happy
• attended SLA in Seattle
• championed a library booth at an internal technical conference
• found someone else to handle the interaction with the US government’s iEdison system
• got a new laptop with vista and had them uninstall it and install XP
• won an internal award for my community work (foster family for Dog Guide puppies)
• won $100 gift certificate from SLA for completing the 23-things project (months have gone by and I have not seen the money though)
• became webmaster for CFUW Oakville

Congratulate me at:

Twitter – http://twitter.com/carolyne/
Facebook – www.facebook.com/people/Carolyne-Sidey-Darimont/508741970
blog – http://carolyne-stuff.blogspot.com
second life – CarolyneSidey Xerox
Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolyne/
Webshots – http://community.webshots.com/user/cdarimont
meebo – _carolyne_
email – carolyne (dot) sidey (at) xerox (dot) com
library (dot) blogger (at) gmail (dot) com

I write the.effing.librarian blog, for about two years now. And I still haven’t been fired from my real job.

I am absolutely compelled to join any group which would normally exclude a person like me. Thank you for this honor.

My blobogok (google it) is for sale on Amazon for $1,000. But my blobogok in PDF is free is you ask nicely. If you buy a copy, I can absolutely guarantee that I will go out and get drunk with the money. Okay, okay, I’ll donate some of the money to help sick children or cure some disease or something. There, you feel better? Now buy a copy of the damn book.

I am so outrageously important that I just wet myself from excitement.

I’d like to thank everyone for letting me nominate, and indeed give myself, this fabulous award. I may not move and shake, but I do, indeed, Shove and Make every day. In addition to my fantastic daily work as the Associate Director for Access and Administrative Services at Lafayette College, I have two small children, a mortgage I can’t afford, a full time student for a husband, and a dog with antisocial tendencies. I’m also president of the Delaware Valley Chapter of ACRL and an admitted Pollyanna. If you care to read my annual review, you will discover that I have, as required, “provide(ed) superior service, identified innovative approaches to address challenges facing the Libraries or the College, and demonstrated responsible stewardship of the College’s resources including budget dollars, staff, and time.” Yet my proudest accomplishment of the past year is publishing an article in the library literature that includes the phrase “emptying the litter box.”

I love you, libraryland!

My name is Brian L. Baker, and I am a Law Librarian by trade. I’ve worked primarily in Public Services, and mainly in Academic Law Libraries. For the last 11 years I have been a Director of an Academic Law Library.

All that changed when I was notified that, due to severe financial constraints, my contract will not be Renewed, and I will be laid off effective 07/31/2009.

So, now, in a depression, I scour the country for a new job. I never expected to be in this position.

I’m what most employers want. Dedicated to the profession (I was President of the Law Library Association of Washington, DC), adept at technology (I Tweet, use Facebook, can set up a WIFI network with ease, and understand the integrating of technology into the pedagogy), excellent at budget planning and negotiation (I believe in the “just in time” collection development plan and the use of databases to supersede printed matter in law libraries).

While I would prefer to stay in California – or anywhere in the West, actually – I am willing to, in the words of Maggie Thatcher, “move to work.”

In my case, after being recruited by the San Joaquin College of Law (SJCL), and moving across country, the law school just isn’t getting the applications needed to support the program. The economic downturn, coupled with SJCL’s lack of ABA accreditation (I was hired to help them move to accreditation after spending 9 years assisting The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law obtain full ABA accreditation) has doomed, at least in the short run, SJCL’s desire to move from CalBar accreditation to ABA accreditation.

I know my abilities are strong. I know that the greater implementation of technology in the Library and in the pedagogy is the appropriate, and cost savings, way to go – particularly for smaller schools.

I am confident that I will get a new position soon. It doesn’t matter if it is in an Academic Law Library, a Court Law Library, or a Public or Undergraduate Library, the ideas and philosophy that I use is sound, and will enhance the learning environment while saving the institution money.

I am Tom Ipri, Head of Media and Computer Services at Lied Library at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I direct the future of the libraries’ media collections and services and lead the development of the multimedia design studio, the learning commons, and the strategic evolution of multimedia services within the University Libraries. This must be what I do because I took it right from my job description. Right after “other duties as assigned.”

Photo by Cindi Trainor, some rights reserved

Prior to coming to UNLV, I was the Media Services Librarian, for 7 years, at La Salle University’s Connelly Library in Philadelphia, PA. In addition to developing a film collection, I oversaw the library’s Web site and contributed to the development of the library’s content in the university’s portal. At La Salle, I also taught freshman writing for the English department and a general education Humanities course.

In the past year, I have begun transforming the first floor of our library, with the help of my wonderful staff, into a more collaborative learning space by adding PCs with large screen monitors and wireless mice and keyboards to our group study rooms, by providing portable white boards, and by moving our media design studio to a larger, more user-friendly space. I spoke about these changes and some of the current theories about learning spaces at Computers in Libraries and at a workshop for the Metropolitan Library System in Chicago.

I discuss this and more at odd, unpredictable intervals on my blog Tombrarian. You can also find me in various places on the Web under that name.

It is a great honor to be included in a group of such interesting and dynamic information professionals. Like many others here, my title doesn’t scream ‘librarian,’ but my role as the Assistant Archivist at the Drexel University College of Medicine Archives & Special Collections on Women in Medicine and Homeopathy covers a little bit of everything (as you might expect with a departmental title of that length).

I came into the profession somewhat backwards, having started off as an accidental code monkey in the 1990s while attending grad school for archaeology; I got my first web job because I was the only candidate who had bothered to email a resume. With such impeccable credentials, I plunged into the dot-com life at full speed and could chart my progress through the industry by the improvement and decline of my office space over time.

But I missed touching old things, so I went to library school in the early aughties with a view toward reducing my salary and working with rare books and archives (albeit with a little technology fun thrown in). Fast forward a bit to the present and I’m lucky enough to do just that – we have an amazing digital collection that saves me much time in referenceland and we’re working on wrestling data about our physical collection into Archivists’ Toolkit.

But I’m still a techie at heart, so you can find me on Twitter (lisagrimm – and if you need a primer, I’ve got that covered as well) or follow our updates on our blog, A Movable Archives as we get the collection (and ourselves) on the road to a new space where it will all be accessible under one roof for the first time in, well, forever.

I thank you all again for your kind interest in my work – and if you need any tips for the Derby, I’m your woman!

Hi I’m Andrea and I’m the Digital Archivist for the Jewish Women’s Archive. We’ve done a bunch of neat stuff this year, most of it I can’t show you yet, but it’s still neat: I’ve cataloged 75 oral histories from Jewish Women around the country, we’ve had two road shows where we’ve collected digital images related to Jewish Women’s experiences in WWII, among other things. I’d like to say that I love my job and the people I work with. We’re gonna *make* it through this rough patch damnit and be even better for it.

I put a badge up on my tumblog and noted there that I’ve chosen to be a Shover & Maker. Check it out!

Check out the great Shovers and Makers blog badge that Jenny Reiswig made. It’s soooooooo pretty! It’s on the badges page, with HTML to cut and paste, too.

Thanks Jenny. You are totally invited to the next sleepover.