Ada Lovelace Day
Today, March 24th, is Ada Lovelace Day. It is an international day that wants to draw attention to women excelling in technology.
I would like to highlight two women here that I admire for their technological skills. I also have the pleasure of knowing them personally and, bonus, they’re librarians!
- Jill Hurst-Wahl is an expert on digitization and social web tools like Second Life. She has her own consulting firm, Hurst Associates and is a faculty member at Syracuse University at the School of Information Studies. She blogs at Digitization 101.
- Stacey Greenwell is an expert on information/learning commons. She is the Universtiy of Kentucky’s Information Commons “Hub” librarian and a former IT support professional. She blogs at The Uncommon Commons.
With these spotlights, I do not wish to undermine all the other women I know that make techology sing (and there are many of them) – please ladies, rock on!
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EngLib: The Engaged Librarian is a reboot of “EngLib, for the SciTech Librarian.” This new EngLib will reflect the diversity of my duties and interests. Opinions represented are my own and not those of my institution. You can reach me at englib.info@gmail.com — Catherine Lavallée-Welch
Catherine, I really appreciate this. You have been an inspiration to me–you were blogging long before it was the cool thing to do. I credit you with my initial jump into the blogosphere. Thank you!