Hi, I’m Meg! Welcome to my blog. I work as a Collections Development Librarian for YBP Library Services, which is a vendor that services academic libraries’ acquisitions and technical services needs. I get to go to all sorts of university libraries, and meet all sort of interesting and smart people, and help them work stuff out.
Before I entered the vendor world, I worked as an academic librarian, most recently at the University of Ottawa, and prior to that at York University in Toronto, ON. My responsibilities in both jobs included reference, information literacy instruction and collections development in the areas of business and management. I did a few neat things with my time in academia, including exploring screencasting technologies to deliver information literacy instruction remotely, and developing a partnership with the UofO’s career services peeps to develop a career books collection.
Way back in 2007-09, you know — when Twitter was still a new thing, and people still RESPECTED their elders — I was a student at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. I kept myself busy by serving as the Professional Development Co-Chair for student council, and by helping to launch a scholarly journal, the Faculty of Information Quarterly. I still participate with the faculty’s alumni association, and I also volunteer with a wee lil committee within CLA called Re:Generations.
