Hi, I’m Chandler

Hello, @michael and my HyberLib classmates!

My name is Chandler and I am about 2 years into my MLIS. I am hoping to become a librarian at one of my many local public libraries in the next couple of years, although I am also taking courses in academic librarianship as well to explore the possibility.  This seminar in particular interested me because we live in a time of such fast-paced technological advances, and technology only makes libraries stronger by connecting users to new and evolving services. I love the idea of participatory services in which users get to help identify what they need and want, re-centering the library’s purpose as a place, above all, for humans who are curious, inquisitive, and creative. I myself am not always the most Web 2.0 literate, but I do want to be Library 2.0 literate, and so I am excited to learn something new and interact with my classmates in this virtual space.

I live with my husband and our two perfect cats in the Bay-Peninsula. I love to travel (I’ve taken MLIS classes from both France and Japan so far), read, and play the occasional cozy game. Here is me and my husband in the bamboo forest in Kyoto last Fall, and my boys, Sableye and Simon (Sableye is the one-eyed pirate).