A personal reflection on a lifelong love of small neighborhood libraries and their unique ability to serve as both quiet havens and community connectors. Through memories of friendship, kindness, and belonging, the author explores how libraries welcome introverts and extroverts alike, creating spaces where everyone can feel at home. Continue reading Living Life Out Loud – Quietly
What happens when age bias shows up in one of society’s most inclusive spaces?
In many small libraries, limited space forces tough choices—but when seniors are treated as unwelcome intrusions instead of valued community members, something vital is lost.This article explores the quiet but painful ways older adults are being edged out of public life—even in libraries, where everyone is supposed to belong.
A moving episode of North of North shows what’s possible when generations come together with respect and joy. Let’s reclaim our shared spaces and remember that community means making room for everyone. Continue reading When Shared Space No Longer Feels Shared
This game design document describes a free online game designed to help players improve their search skills in library catalogs and other library discovery systems. It blends the characteristics of educational and board games with elements from the strategy and survival genres. The goal is to work as a team to traverse the Library while circumventing the monsters hiding in and impersonating shadows. Library of … Continue reading Library of Shadows: a game design
I shared these thoughts with my professor at the conclusion of a recent course in Consumer Health Information. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized not only the importance of Consumer Health Information (CHI) but the need for public health agencies and medical libraries to focus on both the delivery medium for health information and ways to promote health, information and digital literacy. All signs indicate … Continue reading Reflections on the Future of Consumer Health Information
People have commented that the background to my website reminds them of a scene from the Matrix. That’s intentional. Hopefully no one is visiting libraries in search of “The Architect”. However, every person who walks through a library’s doors is in search of something and, most of the time that something is information. Since their creation, libraries have been repositories for a society’s information. … Continue reading Career 2.0 – The Archivist
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