These are the people who have worked to make AskScott possible.
Scott
Nicholson
scott@scottnicholson.com
- Originator of AskScott
- General search tools
- Health and Legal
Dr. Scott Nicholson is a faculty member at the Syracuse University school of Information Studies. He's worked as a librarian, computer specialist, statistician, and data miner. His first area of scholarly research was Web search tools, which is where much of the information came for AskScott. His current research focus is Bibliomining, i.e. data mining for libraries.
- Government
Using her shiny new diploma from
Syracuse University, Lyn has landed the
plum job of Librarian at North Pole Middle School. This is her 12th year
as a school library media specialist in Alaska. She is a third generation
League of Women Voters member. As a small child, she remembers attending
meetings with her grandmother and mother. For most of her adult life
she
has been an active member of the Tanana Valley League of Women Voters.
Her
interests in voter rights, freedom of information, and the environment
has
seen her volunteer not only on the League board but on committees as
well.
It is her dedication to this worthy group that led her to choose the
Government section of AskScott.
- Quotes, Lyrics & Poetry
Janis is an MLS student hoping to find a reference position in a public library. Her particular areas of interest in library science are classification theory, indexing & abstracting, and cataloging. Her work experience has consisted mostly of administrative jobs in corporate settings, including lots of document control for maintaining ISO standards (very Dilbertian stuff). Her B.S. degree is in biology, and her personal interests include fine arts, literature, and popular music.
- News & Stock Quotes
Suzanne Myers Harold received her Master of Library Science degree from Syracuse University in August 2002. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and daughter, Eleri, who was born December 29, 2002. Suzanne's librarian studies focused on services to children and young adults, and she wastes most of her free time watching reality TV and reading angst-ridden young adult novels.
- Research
Kirsten is currently pursuing her MSLIS at Syracuse University. She lives and works in Ithaca NY, where she is the Access Services Supervisor at the Physical Sciences Library at Cornell University. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Earlham College in 2000.
- Blogs and Wikis
Veronica has a BA in Social Sciences and is working toward an MSLIS with a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Digital Libraries at Syracuse University. She currently provides Readers’ Advisory services for the Las Vegas Clark County Library District. In her free time she enjoys making creative art messes and taking classes in art history, studio art, and architectural design from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
- City Information/Maps
Catherine received her MSLIS from
Syracuse University in May 2006.
While pursuing her master’s she taught information literacy at
Bryant &
Stratton College in Syracuse, NY, interned at the university’s
main
library and conducted research for two professors in the Whitman School
of Management. Her main focus in librarianship is instruction,
reference and public services and she finds great pleasure in helping
those with an information need find what they are looking for and learn
a bit about searching along the way.
- Searching with Kids
Lisa expects to earn an MS-LIS from Syracuse University
in June 2006, and hopes to complete a Certificate of Advanced Studies
in Digital Libraries in 2007. With these
degrees, she plans a new career in a corporate, news or medical library
in the New York
City area. Previously, she worked for fifteen years as a senior director
of production at
Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation. From the ridiculous to the sublime!
- International
Olivia will complete her MSLIS at the end of summer 2006 and works
at the Cornell
University Library. She spent part of her childhood in England and
studied abroad as an
undergraduate in Italy. She has a History BA from Northwestern University,
with a
concentration in Middle Eastern Studies and a minor in Italian Studies.
Her travel plans
are too numerous to list.
- Multimedia - Audio
Angela is currently a student in a Library Science/Information
Management student at Syracuse University. She holds a BSc in Agriculture
and an MSc in Food Science and Technology from The University of the West
Indies (UWI). She has worked as a para-professional at The Main Library
at UWI. Her current interest is in Information Systems and she hopes to
follow in this career path after graduating in August 2003.
- Multimedia - Video
Since 2000, Beth has been an information architect in a corporate environment, spending most of her time on various web development projects and helping to evaluate, select, configure, and maintain the intranet search engine. She will receive her MSLIS degree from Syracuse University in June of 2006, and plans to continue to embrace her geek tendencies within special library or IT-related settings. She and her husband live with their four cats in Massachusetts.
- Family Issues
Mary Saso is a school librarian at two elementary schools in Ottawa, Canada. She has just completed her MLS degree from Syracuse University. Her intersts include art, children’s literature, canoeing, cross-country skiing and hanging out with four kids when they return from university. (They really do grow up eventually!!)
- Government Information
Matt was graduated in 1992 from the University of Denver with a BA in English. He earned a Masters from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 1993. He is currently working on his Masters in Library and Information Science at Syracuse University. He lives in South Euclid, Ohio, and works at a public library as a paraprofessional. He worked for nine years in the information industry as an indexer/abstractor. He is also a fiction writer.
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