CURRENT POSITION Digital Initiatives Librarian, Maryland Institute College of Art Library, Baltimore DEGREE MSLIS, Pratt Institute, 2014 FOLLOW @citythatreads on Twitter; @thecitythatreads on
Meet Jennifer Ferretti (@CityThatReads), We Here founder and LJ 2018 Movers & Shakers Community Builder
CURRENT POSITION Collection Development Librarian, Timberland Regional Library, Tumwater, WA DEGREE JD, Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, 2008; MSLS, University of Illinois,
Meet Robin Bradford (@Tuphlos), Barrier Breaker, one of LJ's 2018 Movers & Shakers Advocates
Bradford is a national leader in an ongoing conversation aimed at raising awareness about diverse books, indie books, and respecting readers of romance and other genres."
ad CURRENT POSITION Director for Digital Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia DEGREE MSLIS, Simmons College, Boston, 2002 FOLLOW @librlaurie on Twitter; Data
Meet Laurie Allen, data rescuer.
Allen knew that before the new administration came in digital specialists were already downloading and storing publicly available government data, most notably the Internet Archive (which maintains the Wayback Machine) and the End of Term Archive, which since 2009 has done an end-of-term harvest that captures federal websites at risk of changing or disappearing. Both efforts needed help to capture the large quantities of information involved.
Allen and Bethany Wiggin, director of PPEH, and the Fellows decided the library would host a code-a-thon on January 13 and 14, 2017. Volunteers would secure copies of climate and environmental data housed on federal websites. After surveying scientists in the Committee for Concerned Scientists on the most at-risk data, the codirectors chose to start with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) websites. They created an online repository: www.datarefuge.org.
Data Refuge made copies of tens of thousands of websites and 395 data sets—in all, many “terabytes of data,” Allen says. “But the outcome of this work is probably not best measured in numbers…. The greater impact was in forging new partnerships and helping many people think differently about the ways we value and care for information for the long term.”
CURRENT POSITION Civic Data Scientist, Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, IN DEGREE MS, Human Computer Interaction, DePaul University, 2015; MLIS, Dominican University,
Meet Jerica Copeny (@jericacopeny), civic data scientist and one of LJ's 2018 Movers & Shakers Innovators!
At EVPL, Copeny mines civic, or public, data to “uncover, investigate, and seek to understand why and how something can be better understood,” she explains. “I am also a data translator, where I bring and communicate data in formats that make them digestible to process.”
CURRENT POSITION Public Services Librarian, El Paso Public Library, TX DEGREE MLIS, University of North Texas, 2013 FOLLOW @megalibrarygirl on Twitter; WikiProject Women in Red; Wikipedia
Meet Susan Barnum (@megalibrarygirl), Wiki Woman, one of LJ's 2018 Movers & Shakers Advocates!
As Librarian in Residence at the Women in Red (WiR) WikiProject, she helps increase representation by writing or editing Wikipedia articles about notable women worldwide.
CURRENT POSITION Interim Director of Outreach Services / Immigrant Services Coordinator, Brooklyn Public Library DEGREE MA, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University,
Meet Eva Raison (@BKLYN_Immigrant), door opener, and one of LJ's 2018 Movers & Shakers Advocates
CURRENT POSITION Library Media Specialist, Blind Brook Middle School & High School, Rye Brook, NY DEGREE M.Ed., School Library and Information Technologies, Mansfield University of
Meet Tracey Wong (@TraceyCarayol), Go-Getter and one of LJ's 2018 Movers & Shakers Educators!
CURRENT POSITION Coordinator, Library Media & Instructional Technology, Baltimore County Public Schools DEGREE MS, Instructional Technology, Towson University, 2003 FOLLOW @franglick on
Meet Fran Glick (@franglick), Digital Guardian and one of LJ's 2018 Movers & Shakers Educators!