Intro post!

Hello! I am Heather, the proprietress of this blog. I am a 30 year old academic librarian working as a cataloger in Special Collections. I love the range of materials one gets to work on in Special Collections, not to mention having a tight knit group of coworkers for our small division within our huge academic library system. I also work the reference desk in our department. In my next job I would love to do more reference and instruction. Cataloging is a really great thing that all librarians should really know a bit about (it seriously helps on the reference desk and in researching library catalogs), but I realized I need more public interaction. I miss doing all the instruction I did as a graduate student! That's how it goes!

This blog will cover my ideas in librarianship, but mostly it'll be about a lot of gaming, science fiction, and nerd stuff in general. I'm also an excellent vegan cook and bake a lot, so food porn will also go in here. The name of this blog comes from a play on the whole "Next Gen Librarian" thing. While I totally fit the stereotype of the Next Gen Librarian, I am a big nerd who can't help but put in talk about gaming (not just in libraries!) and science fiction in with talks of librarianship.

Actually tomorrow will accumulate all of these things together in one day! Two co-workers and I watch Battlestar Galactica together: tomorrow being the last episode until 2009! *cry* So in celebration we are making an algae-themed (or at least green) dinner to go along with our BSG viewing. I'm also making a green tea cake that will, hopefully, have the Battlestar insignia on the top. Pictures and episode write up tomorrow!