Author: Maura Seale

2020 ULS Candidate for Member-At-Large: Annie Zeidman-Karpinski

Tell us more about yourself and how you became an academic librarian. After many years of graduate school in geography, but leaving without a Ph.D. I worked as a researcher for several activist labor unions, then for a non-profit internet service provider and finally in Q/A for an search provider....

2020 ULS Candidate for Member-At-Large: Mea Warren

Tell us more about yourself and how you became an academic librarian. I am the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Librarian at the University of Houston, and have been here since I graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with my MSLS in 2015. I’m one of those science librarians who have definitely...

2020 ULS Candidate for Member-At-Large: Chris Miller

Tell us more about yourself and how you became an academic librarian. I had a bit of a winding road to becoming an academic librarian. Not having a firm grasp of what I wanted to do with my life, after college I went back into the revolving door of mostly...

2020 ULS Candidate for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Laura Gariepy

Tell us more about yourself and how you became an academic librarian. I’ve been an academic librarian for nearly 11 years, after receiving my MSLS from UNC Chapel Hill, and have been at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries in Richmond, VA since 2009. I started as an Undergraduate Research Librarian,...

2020 ULS Candidate for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Jennifer Sharkey

Tell us more about yourself and how you became an academic librarian. I’ve been an academic librarian for almost 20 years. While in school, I had the opportunity to work in a variety of academic library on campus. However, right out of library school I worked for a short time...