Kathryn

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  1. Hello, everyone.
  2. My name is Catherine, and I'd like to present some
  3. background information about myself.
  4. I'm originally from Scarborough, Ontario.
  5. I lived much of my life in Nova Scotia, and
  6. I currently live in Edmonson with my husband and our
  7. daughter. The thing I like most about living in Alberta
  8. is being close to the mountains as my family or
  9. huge camping enthusiasts.
  10. We loved being outdoors, and these days it seems like
  11. we spend most of our time at the playground.
  12. My undergraduate degree is in English and psychology, and I'm
  13. currently a student at the University of Alberta, studying for
  14. my master's in library and information studies.
  15. I have previously worked at the Devon Public Library, where
  16. I planned and implemented summer programming for Children and teens.
  17. I've also worked at the Alberta Legislature Library, assisting with
  18. collection management projects.
  19. Right now, I work for the University of Alberta libraries
  20. at the Research and Collections Resource Facility, which is fun
  21. because I get to be a librarian who also drives
  22. a forklift in a giant warehouse of books.
  23. As someone who grew up in the eighties, technology hasn't
  24. always occupied the same role in my life as it
  25. does now.
  26. My first introduction to computer technology was playing video games
  27. with my friends, First Atari and the Nintendo Games.
  28. Video games at that time were very gendered and mostly
  29. marketed to boys.
  30. But I really enjoyed Hm.
  31. We got our first family computer when I was eight
  32. or nine, but since it was pretty Internet, I didn't
  33. take too much of an interest in it.
  34. Dial up Internet was around when I was in high
  35. school, but it wasn't until Web 2.0, and social networking
  36. became popular that I started to get excited about the
  37. possibilities of this new technology.
  38. I'm very passionate about Library in ship as libraries advocate
  39. for many of the things I believe in, like access
  40. to education, lifelong learning, social responsibility and sustainability, this is
  41. a really exciting time to be entering the field of
  42. library in ship as libraries have been transformed by new
  43. technologies creating physical and online spaces designed for collaborative learning
  44. and exploration.
  45. The maker space movement in particular, is something that I
  46. find really exciting and I love being involved with Web
  47. 2.0 has changed our society from a culture of content,
  48. consumers to a culture of creators.
  49. Computer technologies facilitate some of the values that brought me
  50. to a library in ship in the first place.
  51. And I'm excited to continue to learn these digital tools
  52. both in my professional and my personal life.