I’m the Web Services librarian for Western Libraries at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario. The biggest problem with my job title is that nobody knows what it means, so I have to explain it to everybody. The good part is that because nobody knows what it means, I can pretty much claim anything web-related as part of my mandate (except the catalogue; that’s definitely somebody else’s job).

I was part of the team that designed and developed the current Western Libraries website, which launched last summer, and I’m now the coordinator for ongoing maintenance and new web projects. This mostly means that I spend a lot of time going to meetings.

When I’m not working on the website at Western, I develop software for the Evergreen Open ILS project. Three years ago, I wrote the ILS module that talks to self-check terminals and PC login systems. Right now I’m working on the module that reads MARC format holdings information uses it to predict when journal issues should arrive.

I’d like to thank the acade… myself for this wonderful award and will definitely be framing the certificate and hanging it on my wall. (There is a certificate, right?)