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My name's Amy. 

My first career was in video production and education. I worked on films and taught workshops on videomaking for the general public, aiming to make the medium more accessible to nontraditional filmmakers while promoting media literacy. Over time, I came to realize that I enjoyed the process of teaching and facilitating even more than I enjoyed production; later still, I realized that there was so much work I wanted to do beyond the scope of media alone. 

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And so I came to librarianship. For me, it's still all about education and facilitation, and connecting people to the tools, resources, people, and knowledge they need to do the things they want to do. I have a special interest in the intersection between the library and the Internet, and I love to talk about how the library (and we librarians) will fit into the digital future.  I even still make a video now and then. 

During my years in library school, I worked in the library at Oregon Health & Science University, first as a circulation assistant and later moving over to OHSU's Historical Collections & Archives where I spent a year creating metadata for their Historical Image Collections. In between, I did an internship in the digital collection of the Portland Art Museum, served as student liaison for the Oregon Chapter of the Special Libraries Association, presided over ESU SLIM-Oregon's Student Chapter of the ALA, and wrote for the Hack Library School blog.  I currently reside in Boston, Massachusetts, where I'm working a practicum at the WGBH Media Library and Archives.