Sometimes being an information professional is a bit like Nancy Drew. You dig around a little, you snoop a little, you find nuggets of information you’re looking for. Or, you’re helping someone else do that. Because we’re curious, we’re nosy, and we have things we want to know! As information professionals, we work on the back end, through information architecture and collection management; we also work on the front-end, with research and reference help. We help solve mysteries in a myriad of ways. I love this work.
I'm a former English teacher. I love words! I love using them in creating taxonomies, assigning metadata, describing, and cataloging. At my current position, I have done this many times, though not as much involving digital content as I would like, and as my certification in digital information management would attest I am well-qualified for.
I love learning! I'm a life-long-learner. In my personal life, I fairly recently took up quilting. In my professional life, I am sharpening some old skills and learning some new ones -- Python -- and a certification in XML- and RDF- based systems.
The intersection of librarianship, information science, and technology is a fundamental part of the future of how we interact with data, information, and knowledge. That intersection is exactly where I want to be!