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I am happy to be called any variation of my middle name, the name which I go by. Amy is, however, my legal first name.
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Further Contact Information:
Email: louise.tripp@wayne.edu
Cell: 773.355.7137
Twitter: @lulutripp
Dreaming is free...
Educational Background
I have so many interests that it's hard to choose exactly what my dream job would be. I'm interested in Reader Advisory and Young Adult Services (I'm a huge YA fiction fan); yet I also really love researching. The idea of working in outreach is also an exciting prospect. An amalgam of all these things would be my absolute dream - perhaps a job where I would get to work with teenage readers and writers to promote literacy, especially in rural libraries like the ones I grew up perusing.
I hold an Associates of Liberal Arts from The College of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City, North Carolina and a Bachelors in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from The University of Illinois at Chicago. I minored in Sociology.
My education is also experiential: I took quite a leap as someone who grew up in the rural south and left it all behind for the big city of Chicago.
Of course, if we're talking total fantasies: there's this one crazy one I have that involves me archiving film for the Academy Awards library. A girl can dream...
The path taken...
I was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in Edenton, North Carolina. Now, at the wise old age of 38, I reside in Chicago, Illinois -- the "city of big shoulders" according to poet, Carl Sandburg.
I took the long way to librarianship. I thought I might teach as a day job, but what I really wanted to do was write. Fast forward six years and some derailments later: I got a job at a public library as a shelver, just because it seemed like it might be a fun place to work. It turned into a second home and the kind of place I could see myself working forever.
Currently...
Random tidbits:
- I lead a writing workshop and a genre fiction discussion group as a volunteer at my local LGBTQ library and archives, Gerber/Hart.
- I've written two unpublished YA novels which remain in revision limbo and I am an infrequent blogger and avid Instagrammer: @lulutripp77
- You can find my personal website at: http://www.louisetripp.com
I work here...
I work in two outstanding suburban Chicago libraries. I've worked at the Skokie Public Library for nine years, starting out as a Shelver/Page and am now a Materials Handler. I've been at Evanston Public Library since 2010, beginning as a Shelver and progressing to Circulation Clerk.