I'm Iris. Reference and Instruction librarian for languages and literature at Carleton College in Northfield. It's a small private liberal arts college. - lris

I'm Colleen, Head of Access Services at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, a mid-size public university. I go by warmaiden on most social networks. - ωαřмaiden TeamOtto

but of course, Madam Cruise Director! :) I'm Courtney. I'm the Electronic and Educational Resources Librarian for Belmont University in Nashville, TN. Belmont is also a small private liberal arts college, with a formerly Baptist affiliation. Now we're just plain Christian (whatever that may mean - we're sort of still figuring that part out) - ~Courtney F.

Rochelle, head of information services/reference, La Crosse Public Library, WI. I've been here for 4 years. Before that, reference librarian for 10 years in Bloomington, IL. Graduated from Illinois at the age of 36. Oh. One more thing. I LOVE my job. - rochelle rochelle

Abigail, Youth Services at La Crosse Public Library, WI. Hedgehog Librarian :) - Hedgehog

I'm Walt, pretty much retired, haven't worked in a library (academic at the time) since 1978. I write a lot and apparently care about things Proper People shouldn't care about. - Walt Crawford

I'm Marianne. Circulation services coordinator at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Also a small private liberal arts college. We operate on the block plan, which is a wacky and marvelous way of doing things (1 class at a time, 4 blocks/semester) that apparently no one else does except Cornell College. I love it. - Marianne

I'm Andrew the Emerging Technologies & Services/Interlibrary Loan Librarian + other tech related type things at Mercer University, Macon GA. Private school somehow affiliated with Baptists - Sir Shuping is just sir

I'm Andy, I'm a librarian with the Burlington County Library System in New Jersey, and I'm better known as the Ben & Jerry librarian, the Old Spice librarian, and the librarian who questioned why a set of books was removed from our shelves and got the now infamous two word answer, "child pornography". - Andy

I'm Rachel, a medical librarian at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. - Rachel Walden

I'm Holly, Collection Development Librarian at the Ft Vancouver Regional Library District in Vancouver, WA. - holly #ravingfangirl

I'm Kirsten, the Serials and E-Res librarian at University of Central Oklahoma, the third-largest school in the state, even though we're "just" a regional. And yes, we do get OU's mail all. the. time. ETA: Far as I know, I'm the only Okie librarian on here. Someone, please prove me wrong! - Kirsten

Aaron. Systems and Electronic Resources (also Website) Librarian & Access Services Coordinator at Shippensburg U in PA. Aaron the Librarian, @awd, etc. ALA Gadfly, Gadabout, and Councilor at Large. LITA Director at Large & LITA Interest Groups Coordinator/Liaison. Opinionated Git. Solver of Problems. Circumventer of Rules for Good Causes. Former Bouncer. - awd

I'm Mary Carmen, I was the head of access & delivery services at NCSU Libraries, but as of last week I am killing time and packing in prep for a move to Stockton, CA where I will be the assistant dean of the University Library at the University of the Pacific. I start October 1. - Mary Carmen

I'm Tara. Right now I'm the Systems and Tech Services librarian at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, a wacky and wonderful little school in Vancouver, BC. - tara

I'm Yvonne, Reference & Outreach Librarian (I also do instruction) at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, TX. Sep 15 will be my 2-year anniversary here, and it's my first librarian job. I was fortunate to get it, and the staff here is great. - Yvonne M

HI! I'm Christa. Currently Special Projects Librarian at the Nebraska Library Commission. which means i get to do whatever leftover stuff there is to do - Gates Foundation grants for libraries, E-rate, Learning 2.0, our new BTOP grant (YAY!). before i came to Nebraska in 2000, I worked for 8 1/2 years at Pace University - and i'm dying to get back into the academic world (anybody have a job for me?). personally, i'm a gamer (WoW, DnD, consoles, boardgames, whatever you got) with 2 cats, 2 ferrets, and a fiance at home. - Christa

Derrick, first semester MLIS student at Louisiana State University, interested in working with emerging technology and reference in academic libraries. Recently relocated to New Orleans. - Derrick from iPhone

Kathryn. Associate Lecturer in Information Studies at Curtin University in Western Australia. I have been a qualified librarian for 20 years. I have been in this job for about 2 months. My thesis for a Master of Information Management was examined and passed my second week into the job. My head is spinning from how quickly this has happened, feet have not touched the ground since I got here and although fighting the Imposter Syndrome I am really, really enjoying what I am doing... - Kathryn says love n peace

amy, eScholarship, ePublishing & Digitization Coordinator (basically, i deal with scholarly communication, publishing initiatives, and making sure our old stuffs gets digitized and made accessible to everybody & their dog) at McGill University in Montréal, QC. - jambina

I'm Robin, IT chick at the Missouri River Regional Library in Jefferson City, Missouri. I manage networks and websites and social stuff. I'm not really a librarian, but don't tell anyone, ok? - Webgoddess Needs A Drink

I'm Laura, Business librarian at Georgia State University. I graduated from the U of TN SIS program in 2004, and since have worked at Youngstown State University and the University of Arizona before returning to the Southeast. Before library school, I spent nearly 7 years as a corporate auditor - which is where the business thing comes from. Oh, and I ADORE business students, though I may occasionally grumble privately about them. I'm fooling myself when i do that. - ellbeecee

John, currently Access Librarian (and Assistant Professor) at Palmer College of Chiropractic, Reference Librarian at the Bettendorf Public Library (one night a week), editor of the Hugo Award-winning sci fi magazine Electric Velocipede, interviewing for a job in Madison, WI tomorrow - John: Clockwork Librarian

Hi! I'm Jen. Periodicals Librarian at U of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Things here are wonderfully busy now that the students are back. Yeah! - Jen

Hello, I'm Jason. I work in Wilson, NC at Barton college as the technology and digital services librarian. - Jason (not an Argonaut) from Android

I'm Julian. Information Technology System Support Administrator, Howard County (MD) Library. I work in a public library, but I am truly a partner in education. I'm a generalist, very much in the fashion a reference librarian might be. - Julian

Hey, I'm Joe. I am the science and engineering librarian at the University of Denver. Academic reference librarian. I usually have the handle jokrausdu on most social networks. Graduated from the U of Maryland wayyyyy back in 1995. Go Terps! - The Ghost of Library Past

I'm Pete, law / social sciences / public health librarian at Sheffield Hallam University. Book buying, database teaching, ref desking. - Pete

I'm Meredith, head of instructional initiatives at Norwich University in VT. I also teach in the LIS program at San Jose State University. I'm not on here as much as I'd like to be. I'm librarianmer on just about every social network. - Meredith

I'm Stephen, an information services librarian at Baruch College. I teach credit courses that the library offers, teach course-related lectures, do reference (desk, email, chat), manage our research consultations service and our chat reference service, and serve as the liaison to the Honors Program and the English and philosophy departments. - Stephen Francoeur

i'm krista. liaison librarian for too many things at McMaster University (mostly humanities and social sciences and first year experience). main responsibility is instruction (no more reference) - weelibrarian

Howdy, I'm Megan, and I'm lucky to work with jambina at McGill. My title is "liaison librarian," but I prefer "bibliotherapist" and "facilitator of serendipity." - Megan F

Hi I'm Dan! I'm the Circulation Supervisor for Queen Creek Branch Library. At least that's what it says on my business cards. In reality I'm the Circ Guy, resident scientist, and on-site computer tech. I go by Sonoran Dragon on most social networking type things. - Dan: Bibrarian

I'm Laura, Systems and Metadata Librarian at Whitman College, in Walla Walla, WA. I'm the general all around tech librarian in a very small library (only 7 librarians and 11 parapros on staff, and we're open 24 hours a day). - Laura Krier

I'm Maurice, the Technical Trainer and Putter Out Of Technology and Social Media Fires at Harford County Public Library in MD, Host/producer of T is for Training, The Library Training Podcast, Speaker, Training and Staff Development Consultant, LSW Sports Correspondent and all around brilliant mofo. - ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫

Thanks for posting this, Iris, and thanks to all for commenting...I'm Nancy, Head of Technical Services and Digital Projects at New College of Florida, a very small public, liberal arts, progressive, honors college. - Nancy Sp♠id

I'm Catherine, reference and instruction librarian at Saint Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana, a small Catholic women's liberal arts college. And I work the refdesk for the Thursday Night Shift of DOOOOOOOOOM. - Catherine Pellegrino

Martha, reference & instruction librarian at Metro State in St. Paul/Minneapolis. I'm a medlib working as a generalist. Information is power. Libraries for the people! - marthalib

Laura, head of special collections at Mercer University, Macon, GA. :) - Rollin' in the LB

So nice to meet those of you I've seen around but not really known. I'm always so impressed by how many different kinds of library types hang out here. And it's a good reality check for me not to go assuming that everyone knows what I'm talking about when I talk as if everyone's a reference/instruction type at a small liberal arts college library. I love the LSW. :-) - lris

Another Laura. I'm at a teeny tiny public/school library in a tiny town in Wyoming. I also run our library system's website and do some tech training. - laura x

I'm Steve Lawson, Humanities Librarian at Colorado College, a small private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs. (I can see why people are frustrated with some of the difficult or contentious discussions in this room lately, but I honestly get a little misty as I skim over all your names and jobs and libraries. I'm glad we are all here.) - Your Neighbor Steve

John, science librarian, head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library at York University in Toronto, ON. Liaison for engineering, computer science, earth & space science, IT, science & technology studies. Just did two 1 hr grad student orientation sessions in our lab today. Tuesday night ref desk shift. Blogger: http://scienceblogs.com/confess... - John Dupuis

I'm a cancer, and I like chocolate ice cream, long walks on the beach at sunset, and ponies. - Stephen Francoeur

My name is Greg. I disrupt the delicate fabric sometimes, when I should know better. I also serve as the Library Systems Manager for the Louisville Free Public Library, which is a fancy way of saying that I handle management of the day-to-day IT operations. Kinda like an assistant manager. It probably means that I don't talk to people often enough. - Greg Schwartz

(I've missed you Greg. Glad to see you around.) :-) - lris

I'm David. I run a community hospital library. I like computers and other shiny things that make beeping noises and have flashing lights. - David Rothman (☤)

(Yeah, isn't it just like a party when I show up? :-P) - Greg Schwartz

(*dons party hat and waves at Greg*) - Rollin' in the LB

For those who don't know (which is most everyone) Julian and Greg are the very very first library people I met after graduating from library school (Josh was a library school classmate, which was FUN!), before the LSW was born. This was before I had a blog. So yeah, ancient history. Luv ya! - lris

I'm Christina, I work in a special library (well we're officially called the information group) at a university affiliated research center in Maryland. We do all science and engineering stuff. I'm also a PhD candidate in Information Studies at Maryland (let's go Terps!) I'm really happy to be part of the group! - Christina Pikas

Cool! I didn't know that. :-) - lris

I'm Dana, Assistant Director of Library Services at SUNY Empire State College, which is a wholly online library that serves 20,000 distance and blended learners and more than a thousand faculty (most of whom are also at a distance) at our mid-sized distributed college that has undergrad and grad programs. - Dana Longley

I'm Nikki. I'm the Education & Assessment Coordinator at the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library in Seattle http://nnlm.gov/pnr/. I think I win for the greatest amount of words that tells you absolutely nothing about what I do & who I work for. I teach free online CE to medical librarians & others, and oversee evaluation of our various regional programs among other things. - Nikki D.

Hello, I'm Chadwick....and I'm a librarian. used to mostly go by InfoSciPhi on the interwebs. I help admin this room and the LSW LinkedIn group. I have operational oversight over desktop and application support, helpdesk, network services, IT consulting, training, business analysis, etc. for the libraries of North Carolina State University. - W!cKeD Underpants Captain

I'm William. I am the Academic Outreach person at Mendeley. We're not a library, but rather a research catalog. We're working on making it easier to deposit material into institutional repositories http://code.google.com/p... (and trying to improve how research is communicated, in general.) - Mr. Gunn

I'm Nancy. Copyright Program Librarian at the University of Minnesota, a large public university. NOT a law librarian. :) - N. Ansi

@nancy- "not that there's anything wrong with that!" :) - David Rothman (☤) from Android

@David Of course not! - N. Ansi

Kendra K. I'm a transportation librarian at UC Berkeley. We do exist. I also like to fight on Friday nights. - Georgie Bestie

Sue- also in Perth, Western Australia. My formal title is "Information specialist" but think Science librarian doing everything in a one person branch of a special library service for a large research organization. In particular think reference and instruction and "embedded" work with some IR work thrown in. To make it more complicated I am part of a larger network distributed nationally. - suelibrarian

I'm Marge, head of Youth Services at La Crosse Public Library (where the hedghog and rochelle rochelle are happily ensconced). I been in da biz a loooong time and ain't retirin' yet! - Marge LW

I'm Jen (also go by modernhypatia when I'm not using the legal name): used to be an independent (high) school librarian, currently job hunting. I'm especially interested in jobs in the Upper Midwest or New England: reference, instruction, and digital citizenship/online literacy are all particular interests, as is reader's advisory. - Jennifer Arnott

Hey all, I'm Laura Norvig, I work for National Service Resources and Training, a variety of projects funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service. My official title just recently changed to Technical Services Librarian. What I really do is a fun mix of managing website taxonomies, heading up usability studies, tagging content, tweaking information architecture, evangelizing social media to grantees and partners, overseeing acquisitions, and some direct reference. Phew! I love my job. - Laura Norvig from iPod

@SarahG law librarians are awesome! Just, people always jump to utterly the wrong conclusion about my work. - N. Ansi

I'm Rebecca (Becca for short) and am the newly appointed Campus Librarian for Indiana's Harrison College - Fort Wayne. We are a very small for-profit college so things are run quite differently than traditional institutions! - Becca

I'm Deborah and I'm an information/liaison librarian at the engineering/physical sciences branch at University of Canterbury (New Zealand), where following a major quake half our books are on the floor, along with much of the ceiling. Just ticking the "experience in disaster management" box for my resume... - Deborah Fitchett

Hi! I'm Merry, better known as Miriella on the interwebs. I'm the webmaster and librarian for Fairfield Public Library in Connecticut and also the whole town of Fairfield. My focus is on tech and webby things, desperately trying to bring all our websites into this century, and not strangling others. I like coffee, purple, and World of Warcraft, though I have Final Fantasy 14 being shipped to me on the 22nd. Who's with me?! - Miriella

Hi there! I'm Galadriel Chilton, e-resources library at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. I'm honored to be Jen and Rachel M. Slough's colleague, and to work just up the road from Rochelle Rochelle and Abigail. I have fun working on ERMes (http://ermesblog.wordpress.com/about...) and being an embedded librarian for lower-level undergraduate classes. - Galadriel C.

I'm Blake and I'm a librarian and a web hosterer. You may know me from such web sites as LISNews and LISHost. I'm also a corporate librarian. - Blake

I'm Israel and I work at Sacramento Sate University as a paraprofessional in the cataloging department. As a recent MLIS graduate, I'm on the lookout for my first professional job. I'm israelcsus almost everywhere. :) - Israel

I'm Heather and I've been introducing myself all week since I just completed the first week of the MLIS at Dalhousie. I've got a communications/IT/business background coupled with an academic background. (Alas Derrick didn't recruit me.) - Heather

Welcome Heather! - Dana Longley

Bob - systems librarian at Zayed University in the U.A.E. - campuses in Abu Dhabi & Dubai.( Zayed is one of three national universities.) - bob in SimCity