Hi! I’m Julie Strange! I’m so excited to be among the wonderful people that are the S&M honorees for 2009.

I’m currently enjoying work as the Statewide Coordinator for Maryland AskUsNow!, our virtual reference service. While my ultimate goal is to take over the world with good customer service, creating over funded libraries and a better stereotype for libraries and librarians, I’m happy when our customers are wowed & delighted by the service provided by our friendly, awesome librarians.

Generally, I try to shove myself and others beyond what is “possible,” always taking “no” as just another challenge. I’m solar powered and I have two modes: GO and SLEEP. Sleep is way too tempting so GO is pretty much it. I try to get my hands in everything and try as much as i can; collecting skills and loving learning. I have my motorcycle license so i can pretend to be a bad @$$ librarian. And recently i bought a house so i can pretend to be an adult.

Right now i’m trying to shove myself into drupal so i can learn it and make it do tricks for our new staff support website (because well supported staff makes for happy staff. and happy staff makes for happy customers. and happy customers keep us in business.)

I blog at the strange librarian dot org, a smattering of library stuff and other randomness I’m thinking about, always enjoy a good conversation, and wish i had an unlimited personal technology budget to satisfy my early adopter geekery. but then again, don’t we all?