My background is in music, and I am a classically trained cellist and vocalist. I play in the Green Bay Civic Symphony, the non-professional orchestra in town. I went to graduate school at UW-Madison (my hometown) with the intention of becoming a music librarian, but the ones I met were all snobby (no joke!), so I broadened my scope to bibliographic instruction in the academic library. My first position out of graduate school was at Northland College in Ashland, WI, as the Reference and Instruction librarian. It was a fantastic for me, but it is a dying community and finding a position for my husband was not possible. So we moved to his hometown of Green Bay 6 years ago.
Another enjoyable, rewarding job in the library field was difficult to find, but I did work briefly at the library at UWGB, and then, most recently, at NWTC (the tech college) as grants specialist for the past 3 1/2 years.
I'm so very thrilled to have this opportunity and I look forward to meeting you all! Thanks to those of you who have already waved in Wisconsin's direction! And a huge THANKS to those of you who assisted in whatever way in getting this library off the ground, from collection development to cataloging!
The GB campus is slowly getting online, and we're involved in a number of cooperatives with other academic, public, school and special libraries. The highlight next week is introducing Rasmussen College at the Wisconsin Library Association conference which is located here in Green Bay! I've included pictures I've taken of the library. Enjoy!
You might have heard what Green Bay is famous for. GO PACK GO!
5 comments:
Hi Karen!!!
Beautiful Library!!!
Greeting from St. Cloud, MN
Go VIKES!!!!
;-)
Karen! Thank you for introducing yourself! I am a Wisconsin native, but I come from a family of Viking fans :(
Your library and campus are beautiful. I lovvvve the light fixtures.
Feel free to email or IM me if you have any questions!
email: amys@rasmussen.edu
IM: amylspringer@hotmail.com
Hi Karen,
Great meeting you! Hope your drive around downtown Minneapolis went well!! Thanks for sharing pictures of your campus - looks great! Go Pack! (They're going to win this weekend you know!)
Hi! It was great meeting Amy, Kate, Lisa, Dennis and Emily this week. The trip downtown was a nightmare but I did find the Law Library, then to Plymouth with only a 1-hour detour getting lost. oh well. Back home in GB today. Looking forward to meeting everyone else in the team in November.
:) Karen
Karen, welcome to Rasmussen! I attended grad school at UW-Platteville, but I wasn't there long enough to turn into a Packer fan. Sorry. I'm looking forward to meeting you.
--Chandra
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