I’m Candy Schwartz
I am thrilled to be so honoured as to be self-elected for a Movers and Shakers award. Thanks to all my nominator. I have been shoving LIS students out into the world and making librarians since about 1978. I am on the faculty of Simmons College GSLIS in Boston and Mount Holyoke, and I am surprised (or maybe not) to see very few faculty here. My major LIS accomplishments of the past couple of years have been making doctoral students (yes, more faculty), managing to keep up with work while also keeping up with social networks, editing a very respectable quarterly professional journal (yeah, I know, but it’s pretty good), and working with 25 students in a class each year to put new digital libraries on the web. I teach the behind-the-scenes stuff that goes into library services (information organization, subject analysis of all kinds, metadata, digital libraries). When I was a working librarian (at Concordia U. in Montreal) I was a cataloguer. My blog is really only for students, but I am in the middle of moving to WordPress and will probably have a “real” blog sometime – though I am not sure I have enough to say. I am a resident alien Canadian (hence the spelling).
Category: S&M Winners, 2009 3 comments »
May 5th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Candy, congrats on this prestigious award. I’m one of your new MLIP students at Simmons and I’m looking forward to meeting you. Danuta and Peter are pretty entertaining but now that I’ve seen your photo, I’m really hoping you’ll play the accordion for us.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Wow, Candy! Congrats! I knew you could do it! I can only hope that someday soon I’ll be cool and accomplished enough to nominate myself for this award.
July 11th, 2010 at 1:13 am
Yes, you have been shoving students indeed, you egocentric old bag. The only thing moving and shaking around here is your old carcass.