About us
This is a community blog written by burgeoning librarians from the Information School at the University of Washington.
- Rachel has been sailing the high seas of the University of Washington’s iSchool since fall 2009; next year she will begin work on a concurrent Master’s degree in Museology. Rachel is interested in the implications of our changing relationships to texts and artifacts, affecting how we create, define and express culture. She is currently exploring reference, classification, preservation work, and plundering as potential areas of interest. Her only clear goal at this point is to continue supporting the ‘antics’ in semantics.
- Ian is currently pursuing concurrent degrees in Library and Information Science and Communication in Digital Media at the University of Washington. After graduation, he hopes to be a reference and instruction librarian at a college or university. His research interests include the cultural and social implications of technology, media and libraries. He is currently working on a study of conceptualizations of digital libraries and their limitations. Ian also blogs at ianjo.com/blog.
- Freeda is having a whale of a time pursuing concurrent degrees in Library and Information Science and Public Administration. She is interested in the changing nature of libraries in the 21st century, especially in preserving the core values of librarianship while pioneering new technologies and services. When she walks the plank into the job market, she wants to be in a position where she can exercise creativity, insight, and grace.
- Althea felt like she was floundering in the shallows of library school before she found the wonderful Bookaneers. This is round two of grad school for her—she graduated with an MA in Literature from King’s College, University of London in 2006. Before that, she cut her teeth as a radical and an academic at Oberlin College. Althea is just plain old Interested, these days, and is practically drowning in all the intellectual flotsam and jetsam coming her way.
