Name of Your Library (if applicable):
Logan Library
Blog or Personal/Professional Website:
https://bibliothecarivs.blogspot.com
About Me:
I’m a humanist librarian advocating for people-centred libraries. Such libraries value literacy and access to information collections funded by the people for the people, life-long education, intellectual freedom, communication and dialogue, kindness, community, diversity and inclusion, historical perspective and progressive thinking, egalitarianism and democracy, honesty and accountability, privacy, health and safety, ecological concern, and conclusions/decisions/policies/practices based on evidence and empathy.
I have worked in public libraries for 22 years, including 16 years as a professional librarian. My specialities include maintaining adult non-fiction collections (selection and deselection for the Dewey classes, biography, reference, local history, and educational audio/video), customer service, research, working with Friends groups, and defending intellectual freedom. I'm an active member of the Utah Library Association and the Cache Valley Library Association, which I helped establish more than a decade ago.
I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, when the atmospheric CO² level was 340 ppm (1980). I now live and work in Cache Valley, a homeland of the Northwestern Shoshone ( nwbshoshone.com ), when the CO² is at 420 ppm. I'm happily married to Dr. Amy Anderson, Logan High School’s counselling department chair, Hope Squad teacher, and GSA advisor, and we have four daughters, one son, and one son-in-law. A lifelong Anglophile, I enjoy reading The Guardian, the work of Thomas Hardy, and medieval English history; listening to Britpop, the BBC World Service, and the work of Ralph Vaughan Williams; watching Sky News, the work of Laurence Olivier, and adaptations of Brit lit; supporting Dorchester Town FC, the Three Lions, and the Lionesses; and observing Anglican worship, Westminster politics, and UK-Ireland relations.
I read an average of 22 books per year, about 2/3 non-fiction and 1/3 fiction. I'm active on Litsy, LibraryThing, Goodreads, BookWyrm, and others, all @bibliothecarivs.
Profile: Taken by my colleague, Morgan ( @morgan-stoker-taylor-ba681787 ) at our library in 2023
Cover: Made by Professor Ed Hawkins (University of Reading), www.showyourstripes.info
