Technology / Systems Librarianship

Ben Rearick

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Web Content Strategist, Iowa State University Library

Areas of expertise: UX research, usability testing, digital accessibility, academic librarianship, training, project management, winding career paths
Can help with: resume/CV/application review, cover letters, academic library questions, transferable skills, job search process and being a new librarian
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: barearick@gmail.com, @ferenjamin

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Digital Library Software Engineer (programming, web-focused mostly) at Harvard University

Areas of expertise: Programming, UX. Specifics: Ruby, Python, JS, PHP, Perl, buncha others. ArchivesSpace, XML, HTML/CSS/etc
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: @pobocks

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Systems Librarian, California College of the Arts

Areas of expertise: Libraryland systems e.g. ILS (Millennium, Koha), discovery layer, EZproxy, institutional repository; coding/programming at an intermediate level in a few languages (JavaScript, python, PHP, CSS/HTML); data munging & visualization; Faking it til you make it
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: @phette23

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Digital Librarian, Information & Adult Services, The Ferguson Library, Stamford, Connecticut

Areas of expertise: Technology training and education
Digital collections and archives
Digitization
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Privacy and Digital security
Digital literacy
Makerspaces
Instructional design
Content management systems (Drupal, Wordpress, Omeka)
Can help with: Technology training and education
Digital collections and archives
Digitization
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Privacy and Digital security
Digital literacy
Makerspaces
Instructional design
Public libraries
Drupal, Wordpress, Omeka (installation, setup & configuration, content creation)
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: Email: fskornia@fergusonlibrary.org Twitter: @fskornia

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Canadiana Librarian, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

Areas of expertise: rare books and special collections; archival description; cataloguing; collections development; Canadian studies; digital preservation tools, standards, policies, practices; service development/project management; digital storage/infrastructure; archives and records management more generally (have also worked in more standard archives/RM roles)
Can help with: Resumes and CVs; interview and job talk tips; imposter syndrome (not that I'm over it personally [crying cat face]); connecting with communities and good folks
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: grant.hurley@utoronto.ca; granthurley.ca

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User Experience Specialist

Areas of expertise: UX, Information Architecture, Taxonomies, Metadata, Information Management, Special Libraries
Can help with: Happy to talk through anything.
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: jaratliff13@gmail.com / @Gameronomist

Systems Librarian at The Center for Jewish History, NYC

Areas of expertise: MARC; Aleph, Primo & other Ex Libris products; radical librarianship & rad politics generally; systems for special collections
Can help with: taking down white supremacist capitalist patriarchy; plus the above systems stuff; figuring out how the world works
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: jtaylor@cjh.org @rowmyboat

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Technology & Instructional Design Librarian, Wilson College

Areas of expertise: Instructional Technology
Instructional Design
Project Management
Teaching
Instructional Coaching
Learning Management Systems
Can help with: Interview Questions
Questions related to any of the areas listed in my "Areas of expertise."
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: james.dannibale@wilson.edu

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Digital Asset Management Lead, University of Rochester - River Campus Libraries

Areas of expertise: project management, digitization, digital libraries, metadata, US copyright law, policy development, public libraries, Omeka, CONTENTdm, Internet Archive, Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Preservica, Python a bit of data visualization, and enough IIIF to make me dangerous
Can help with: CV/resume review, cover letter review, interview preparation, getting involved with professional organizations/service, presentation preparation, developing portfolios, DAM/digital libraries/digital preservation, getting started in coding, just being a sounding board for whatever you've got going on
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: john.dewees@rochester.edu (preferred), john.dewees@gmail.com, @johndewees, johndewees.com (updated 2022-03-11)

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Digital Repositories Librarian, University of Waterloo

Areas of expertise: repository management, metadata, cataloguing, GIS/map/data librarianship, scholarly communications, labour relations, research design, grant writing, media archives, digitization, digital scholarship, DSpace, OJS, cat petting
Can help with: CV and interview questions, surviving library school and the world beyond, making connections
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: jordan.hale@uwaterloo.ca / @jordanclaire