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Peggy Garvin takes another turn as FGI blogger of the month for Sept 2009

Hi all. We've got a treat for you as Peggy Garvin takes another turn at the podium. Peggy, the blogger in chief at the SLA Government Information Division blog, was BOTM in August, 2006 and liked it so much she decided to do it again (hear that other guest bloggers?!). So without further ado, take it away Peggy. Continue reading

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Welcome Aimee and James Quinn, bloggers of the month for August, 2009

Happy August, fine readers. Please welcome Aimee and James Quinn to the podium for the month of August. Aimee and James are librarians and activists who hale from the fine state of New Mexico (full bio here). Take it away James and Aimee. Also, many thanks to Jeanne Kramer-Smyth, our BOTM for July, 2009. Check out Jeanne's posts here: Cheers to Jeanne and now take it away James and Aimee! Continue reading

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Aimee and James Quinn: bloggers of the month for August, 2009

James and Aimée Quinn are both librarians who share a love of cats, books, movies, coffee, dogs, exploring new places (especially libraries) and technology although James is much more tech savvy than Aimée. Both work with the Humane Societies to fight for animal rights. Aimée is a librarian at the University of New Mexico, Parish Memorial Library. She served on a variety of ALA committees, task forces, discussion groups, etc. related to government information, permanent public access to government information, rare & valuable government publications (yes they really do exist) and government literacy. Aimée is an assistant editor of the international journal, Government Information Quarterly. After working in academic law libraries for over 25 years, James, along with Matthew Wright, co-founded the Library Underground. He now works with Chris Zammarelli (another of our guest bloggers!) to maintain the site. James is an anti-nuke/environmental activist who also serves as the list owner for an international anti-nuclear discussion group. These activities coupled with associating with librarians makes him a dangerous peacenik. Continue reading

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Welcome Jeanne Kramer-Smyth to the BOTM podium

Happy July everyone! This month we've got Jeanne Kramer-Smyth with us. Among other things, Jeanne is a blogger at Spellbound Blog, a really interesting blog about the intersection of archives, digital humanities, cultural heritage institutions and technology -- here's her full biography. Take it away Jeanne! We also want to thank Molly and Lori from the Internet Archive for being our guests for the month of June. They turned us on to a bunch of cool Archive-it digital collections hosted at the archive. We really hope they'll continue to keep us posted on the Archive's happenings. Thanks again Molly and Lori!! Continue reading

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Jeanne Kramer-Smyth: BOTM for July, 2009

Jeanne Kramer-Smyth is the author of Spellbound Blog. A recent graduate of the University of Maryland's iSchool Archives, Records and Information Management program, Jeanne comes to the field of Archival Science with over 18 years of experience designing relational databases, creating custom database software and participating in web based software development. She has brought her great interest in information visualization, structured data and helping individuals find what they are looking for to her studies, personal research and writing. She is interested in the ways that access to government information can be improved -- especially ways that free structured government data can be reused, analyzed and visualized. Jeanne currently holds a position as a Metadata Analyst and SEO Coordinator within the Interactive Technology division of Discovery Corporation. She divides her time between doing search engine optimization (SEO) for Discovery's network websites and working on taxonomies and controlled vocabularies. Continue reading

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