Author: Brianna Marshall

1. Tell us about your library job.  What do you love most about it? I am the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Idaho. This is a brand new position within the library and also my first ‘real’ librarian job, so it’s been a constant learning experience. I work along with the Digital Initiatives Librarian on the various digital projects happening at the library, including building an institutional repository, creating digital collections, redesigning the library website, creating and managing open access journals, and working on VIVO (a semantic-web application we are using as a front-end to our IR). I also do some education and advocacy around copyright, author’s rights, open access, etc. The thing I love most about this job (aside from being able to design websites in crayon – image attached) is taking an idea and bringing it into fruition. Whether it’s a digital collection of postcards with…

1. Tell us about your library job.  What do you love most about it? My job as eLearning Librarian is equal parts project manager, instructional designer, information literacy teacher, and instructional technologist, with some multimedia producer and reference librarian thrown in to keep things interesting. My main initiative right now is the continuing development of ZSRx, my library’s series of open online courses for Wake Forest alumni and parents. What I love most about my job is that I’m empowered to act on big ideas, I get to do a bunch of creative work, and I get to do it all alongside some of the best coworkers and faculty colleagues you could find anywhere. 2. Where do you see yourself going from here? I would *love* to eventually head up a team that serves as a resource for faculty who want to better integrate technology and library resources into their…

You’ll still be able to find LITA announcements and events posted on the blog, but now there will also be original content by LITA members representing a variety of perspectives, from library students to  public, academic, and special librarians. The LITA blog also welcomes guest posts. To submit an idea for consideration, please email me at briannahmarshall(at)gmail(dot)com with a bio, brief summary of your post topic, and link to a writing sample if possible. Without further ado, here are the writers whose posts you’ll be reading in the coming months. Bryan J. Brown Bryan received his BS in English and Philosophy from the University of Southern Indiana, and is a recent graduate from Indiana University’s Department of Information and Library Science where he focused on digital libraries and metadata. After graduation, Bryan transplanted to Tallahassee, FL to be a developer at Florida State University Libraries’ Technology and Digital Scholarship Department….

The LITA blog is seeking regular contributors interested in writing easily digestible, thought-provoking blog posts that are fun to read (and hopefully to write!). The blog will showcase innovative ideas and projects happening in the library technology world, so there is a lot of room for contributor creativity. Possible post formats could include interviews, how-tos, hacks, and beyond. Any LITA member is welcome to apply. Library students and members of underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply. Contributors will be expected to write one post per month. Writers will also participate in peer editing and conversation with other writers – nothing too serious, just be ready to share your ideas and give feedback on others’ ideas. Writers should expect a time commitment of 1-3 hours per month. Not ready to become a regular writer but you’d like to contribute at some point? Just indicate in your message to me that…