Member Spotlight: Alexandra Hauser

Name: Alexandra Hauser

Degree: MLS

Anticipated graduation date: May 2013

I'm originally from southeast Michigan and earned my bachelor's degree in History from Michigan State University in 2010.  I've been trying to gain a variety of experience working libraries so I hold a variety of positions within the IUB Libraries.  I'm a Library Services Team Leader at the Geosciences Library, a Student Supervisor at Media & Reserve Services in the Herman B Wells Library, and I am also an Instruction Assistant within the Teaching & Learning department at the Wells Library.  I'm also currently the Treasurer for the Special Libraries Association Student Group here at Indiana University Bloomington SLIS.

During my time at SLIS I've focused mainly on academic libraries and have only recently discovered special libraries and all that they have to offer. I'm interested in corporate libraries and the idea of really drilling down to focus on a particular market or product and providing research and information to those involved in that field. I am also particularly interested in promoting information literacy, that is providing people with the skills and training to use various information resources confidently to locate accurate, relevant, and quality information and use it effectively.

I have really enjoyed working toward my professional identity here at SLIS. I was able to start achieving this through the publication of two papers "Beyond gatekeepers of knowledge: Scholarly communication practices of academic librarians and archivists at ARL institutions", a product of my Spring 2012 Scholarly Communication class,  was accepted by College and Research Libraries in August 2012 and is awaiting publication.  "Scholarish: Google Scholar and its value for the sciences", written with my Science & Technology information class, was published in the Summer 2012 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship.  Excitingly, we were also asked to write a follow-up blog post based on Scholarish for the London School of Economics' Impact of Social Sciences blog.

I'd love to hold a position where I can continue teaching and promoting information literacy.

You can find me on LinkedIn under Alexandra Hauser or following the link here. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alexandra-hauser/2a/490/a91

Member Spotlight: Perris King

Name: Perris King

Degree: MIS

Anticipated graduation date: May 2013

I'm from Fresno California. I'm currently doing an internship at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, working at the Support Center, and job hunting. I enjoy cooking, knitting, reading (like most Slizzards), travelling, and watching movies in my spare time.

I started in the MLS program because I was interested in going into business research, but I eventually realized I was more interested in metadata and electronic publishing. My favorite class so far has been Human Computer Interaction. The instructor (Hamid Ekbia) is great and we got to develop an app focused on improving people's behaviors, which was an interesting challenge.

I'm really enjoying my internship at the IMA and would love to have a job like that where I get to work with large image collections and creative people. I'm also interested in electronic publishing and developing electronic books.

Resume/Portfolio site: http://www.perrisking.com/

LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/pub/perris-king/27/292/a56

Member Spotlight: Margaret Janz

Name: Margaret Janz

Degree: MLS, specialization in chemical information

Anticipated graduation date: May 2013

I'm originally from central Wisconsin and earned my bachelor's degree in Information Resources from the School of Information Science at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 2010. I work at the Life Sciences and Chemistry Libraries here at IU as a graduate assistant and at the Lilly Library as an assistant to the ALF Cataloger.

My focus at SLIS has been on science librarianship, because I'm really interested in the sciences, especially the biological ones. I also am really interested in data management and the issues surrounding open access publishing. My tendency to think outside the box made special libraries very appealing to me once I knew they existed. I really love that there are libraries everywhere and have the idealistic notion that information sharing is a key component to solving all problems.

I am really proud of a lot of the work I've done professionally and as a student at SLIS. One item of note was publishing the paper "Scholarish: Google Scholar and its value for the sciences" in the Summer 2012 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship with by my Sci&Tech Information class. I'm also very excited about collaborating with the IU Libraries' e-science librarian on a project this semester about data management practices of zoo researchers.

I'd love to work for a library at a National Park or in a zoo library.

You can connect with me on LinkedIn. That name again is Margaret Janz.