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- Ellie Collier
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Born and raised in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia, I received my B.A. in Film & Video from Penn State. After a 3 year stint working in reality television in Chicago and Los Angeles, I moved to Austin to pursue my M.S.I.S. at the University of Texas at Austin. What was meant to be a brief two year stop over in Texas turned into a new home. I had planned to return to LA and do film research. Instead I fell in love with academics and reference and am currently incredibly proud to be a Reference Librarian at Austin Community College, where I am the leader of the Staff Development Committee, active with our website and our IM reference, and the subject specialist for Radio-Television-Film, Visual Communications Design, and Psychology. I am also a member of the 2008 class of ALA’s Emerging Leaders, the ACRL Membership Advisory Committee, the CJCLS Membership/Communications Committee, the Texas Library Association’s 2007 — 2010 Visioning Taskforce and managed the Transforming Texas Libraries blog.
My professional interests lie in helping people with limited technology skills, be they patrons or fellow librarians, take small steps to become more comfortable using the myriad of technologies available to us today. Working at a community college is incredibly inspiring and a powerful antidote to technolust. In the rush to supply millennials with SMS reference and create social catalogs I always try to remember the woman I helped who didn’t know what a scroll bar was and the fact that, broadly speaking, most librarians are not programmers. I was very excited to present simple, practical applications of web 2.0 technologies this past April at the Texas Library Association annual conference as a part of the Automation & Technology Round Table’s Net Fair. I was also on a panel that discussed LibraryThing and LibraryElf where I shared my weaving guild’s experience putting our collection into LibraryThing.
In my down time I can usually be found with my weaving guild, crafting, playing with my furry children, spending way too much time immersed online, or learning about deep sea creatures. I blog at ellie <3 libraries.
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