Intro

I am Mick. 

I work at the New Lenox Public Library (NLPL) and am starting a practicum at Northeastern Illinois University’s Ronald Williams Library (NEIU).  

At the NLPL I work at the reference desk about half of the time and do various other tasks the other half of that time i.e. run the adult chess club (I designed the chess website, a first effort).   

I have just started at NEIU and am enjoying it, a very interesting bunch of librarians to be sure.   I will be working on something called LibGuides which I will certainly write on ad nauseum.  I will also use Adobe Captivate for some asynchronous lessons which I am extremely excited about.   I will also get a lot of time on the reference desk and perhaps even teaching some classes. 

I am engaged to be married in July of 2008. 

I taught EFL in South Korea for three years and worked in hotels down in New Orleans before that as a night manager on Bourbon Street (this is why I grin when we talk of problem patrons). 

I graduated from Knox College with a double major in philosophy and history. 

I hope to become nearly impossible for a library not to hire.  I originally came for the technology, but find myself buying in to the whole Library 2.0 philosophy or perhaps it is that the Library 2.0 philosophy that is working with my already quasi-established theories of service.