Michelle McLean
I’m Michelle McLean, officially an Information Librarian for Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation, a public library service in Melbourne, Australia.
I say officially, because I am in the process of trying to get my title changed to Virtual Services Librarian. The reason for that change is that 80% of my part-time hours are spent on my library services virtual presence, which means our website, our electronic resources, our blogs etc, etc.
I gratefully accept this award, based on the following:
- nobody will give me a Mover and Shaker award and this is just as good
- I am proud of the way I have taken our library website into the 21st century – in the last year we have added more blogs (2 of which I contribute to regularly), created screencasts to show our users how to best use our new catalogue and added Google Maps to our branch information and directions (amongst other things)
- I have also helped our profession more generally, by presenting papers at several conferences on Web 2.0 and keeping up-to-date in the profession and by having articles published in the library literature on the same topics
and
- I continue to share my professional experiences and ponderings through my personal blog Connecting Librarian and as part of the team at Libraries Interact
I am privileged to share this award with many other worthy winners, many of whom are not only my colleagues, but my friends. I am pleased to be able to stand beside you in this honour.
Category: S&M Winners, 2009 5 comments »
April 13th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Congratulations on your Shovers and Makers award. Many is the the time that your example has shoved me to keep up with what is going on, and your writing moved me to smiles.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Michelle, you help to keep me on my toes and I thank you for that. Also, for inviting me to write the ALIA paper with Maryanne – the thought would never had ocurred to me, but it’s taken us to Alice Springs and even into print.
Although we often take different routes, you are something of a role model. Thank you.
Your reward is highly deserved.
harps
April 14th, 2009 at 6:41 am
Congrats Michelle – definately a well deserved award! You are certainly very inspiring!
April 16th, 2009 at 2:00 am
Congratulations Michelle. You’re doing so many exciting things. Can’t wait to see the results of all your Drupal tinkering :)
April 16th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Congrats Michelle
You have certainly inspired me to do more.