This is Megan Brooks and I’m staking my claim as a Shover and Maker. By night I’m a hockey player, an on-ice force to be feared (or mocked, depending on your skill level). But by day I’m a librarian-turned-administrator-turned-something else who has found myself deep inside the world of merged library/computing organizations – and I love it.

My job title is Director of Research and Instruction at Wellesley College, which means that I work at the reference desk, teach library and computing classes, and manage a whole slew of amazing people who do fascinating work, including the special collections librarians, the staff of the computing help desk, the book arts program director, and the research and instruction librarians in the main and science libraries. How lucky can one person be?

The work I’m most proud of in the past year is the work of transformation -

• helping our workplace evolve into one where people can take risks and learn as they go, adjusting services and expectations as necessary
• seeing diverse groups of people (within my group, and between groups) find commonalities in our work and watching them help each other think about that work in new ways
• leading campus-wide projects around email, calendaring, and voice messaging
• shedding this comfortable skin called “librarian” and emerging into something different and unnamed, but (for me) equally powerful

You can find my online presences at claimid.com/librarygrrrl