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Emma Lawson

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Coordinator of Collection Development and Electronic Resources Librarian at Langara College

Areas of expertise: electronic resources licensing, acquisition, management, troubleshooting; vendor relationships; collection development; academic libraries; college libraries; liaison work; reference and instruction
Can help with: general questions, academic library questions, job applications, resumes
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: elawson@langara.ca , @emmalawson

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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 Preservation Services Manager, Artefactual Systems (formerly Head, Office of Digital Innovation & Stewardship, University of Arizona)

Areas of expertise: digital preservation, archives, program development, portfolio management, management, digital scholarship, data management, data curation
Can help with: job interview questions, management in academic libraries, program development, digital preservation
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: omeara.erin@gmail.com, @diplomaticaerin

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Architecture Librarian at University of Waterloo

Areas of expertise: liaison librarianship (architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and design); information and visual literacy; copyright/fair use, and creative commons licensing; citation management software; cataloguing; critical research methods; knitting and foraging
Can help with: CV review; job interview questions; mock interviews; career changes; academic and museum libraries; presentation preparation; professional associations
Can speak: English, Greek, easy French
Can read: English, French, easy Greek
Contact: evan.schilling@uwaterloo.ca

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Collection and Technical Services Manager, Tulare County Library

Areas of expertise: Collection development, teen services, school visits, technology in the library, summer reading program, branch services, vendor relations, author visits, supervision/management,
Can help with: job applications, interviews, hiring, collection development, teen services, rural libraries, doing a lot with a small staff
Contact: farre03@gmail.com; @farre

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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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Junior School Library Technician

Can help with: disclaimer: not an expert (but aspiring to be) in Kids, Middle School, or YA Lit.; however, I can certainly share my sources of knowledge of all things Kid -- YA Lit!
Can speak: English
Can read: glarcina@gmail.com, @glarcina

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Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh

Areas of expertise: digital scholarship, pedagogy and instruction, Python, event planning, interactive fiction, management and supervision, copyright in digital scholarship projects
Can help with: CV review, cover letter review, job interview questions, digital scholarship work in libraries, faculty unions, copyright, instruction and pedagogy, new supervisor/team lead questions, experiences at Duquesne University and the University of Pittsburgh
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: gesina.a.phillips [at] gmail.com

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Manager, Toronto Reference Library, TPL

Areas of expertise: former academic AUL. Mostly good at not being scary to approach about anything administrative. Some skill in organization structures, planning (strategic/operational), understanding technology from the outside, project management, leadership, power redistribution
Can help with: interviews, mentorship and career advice, translating job experience to/from different library sectors
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: gbyrne13@gmail.com, twitter: @gillmbyrne

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Associate Librarian at the Michener Institute of Education at UHN in Toronto

Areas of expertise: liaison librarianship (especially business and health sciences), supervising student assistants, citation management software
Can help with: CV review, preparing for college and university job interviews, and just about anything else that relates to academic librarianship
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: glavender@gmail.com / @gslavender