Hello, welcome to my blog!
My name is Josh, I’m in my third year of the SJSU MLIS program and will graduate in Fall ’24. I started working in a library in high school after almost dropping out of school. The school counselor decided to offer me an “easy” class of being an assistant in the high school library. That led to working in libraries for almost twenty-five years – and deciding that it was time to finally start my MLIS degree well into my 40’s. Libraries caught me while I was falling as a teenager and I want to have a hand in creating spaces and services for others to experience that kind of support in their communities.
My library career has spanned many job responsibilities – being a library shelver, courier van driver, one-person IT support for a rural library district, managing a one-person library in a town of 300 people, planning nine summer reading programs, providing reference services at a public library, supervising a team of eight reference staff at busy municipal library, and currently performing cataloging and technical services tasks at a community college library.
I currently live in Kennewick, Washington – known for the Columbia River, the nearby Hanford Nuclear Site (the most polluted site in North America), and the beautiful Shrub-Steppe ecosystem.
I enjoy gardening, spending time with my husband and our two dogs, and escaping to the nearby Oregon Coast, hopefully, each summer.
