I was born and raised in Southern California and went to school (K-12) in La Mirada. I received my B.A. in French from Cal State Fullerton and I have a Masters in Library and Information Science from UCLA. I have been working as a librarian at Rio Hondo Community College in Whittier for the past 25 years. I love my job! What could be better than helping students succeed? In my spare time I am an avid genealogist. Almost all of my ancestors were in this country before the Revolution so I have learned much American history and geography over the years. Genealogy is fascinating and addictive.
I love computers. My first computer was an Apple IIe back in 1983. I was pretty technologically savvy back then but over the years it has been very hard to keep up, particularly in my job. Libraries have always been early adopters of technology. Now that I'm older it takes me longer to learn and I don't have a good understanding of many technologies my younger colleagues are comfortable with. I have a very basic understanding of HTML and have never used CSS although I have blogged and used content management systems. I used to use Google Reader but switched to Feedly when Google Reader was discontinued. I follow a few library and technology blogs and dozens of genealogy blogs.
I am in the Educational Multimedia program so that I can develop interactive library tutorials for use by online (and other) students at Rio Hondo. These will include things like how to find books in the library catalog and on the shelf, how to search databases effectively, how to evaluate websites, etc. We can do very basic Camtasia tutorials but we want to offer more professional-looking and interesting (maybe even fun!) tutorials that will help our students become information literate, a necessity in today's world. I'm looking forward to learning everything I can to make that happen.
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