LibrarianActivist.org

Thanks to Danielle for making the handover such an easy one and for being so gracious about answering our myriad questions! We hope we can do the blog the justice it deserves; please give us a few days to update the websites and contact information - and let us know if, in a week or two, we missed a few spots.

Here we are with our brief bios. Yes, indeed, we are three people. All currently living in London, Ontario and yes, we all met in library school (or was that the Grad Club?).

Jason Hammond is an MLIS student at the University of Western Ontario. He has spent the last nine years in the non-profit literary arts sector in Western Canada. He considers himself an “inactive activist” who believes in a lot of things but often feels too overwhelmed to do anything about them. He did serve as a member of the Amnesty International Observer Team during the G8 Summit in Kananaskis, AB in 2002. A classmate described Jason as the “only person dumb enough to want to work in public libraries and the only person smart enough to know what I mean by that.”

David Jackson is a writer and musician who recently graduated from the UWO MLIS program. He’s interested in the subtle commodification of information, creative appropriation, and access for all. He’s not sure what he wants but he knows how to get it. And he can read like a demon.

Sabina Iseli-Otto is another MLIS student at UWO. Her main concerns are with international trade issues, the commercialization and commodification of public space, and Craig Thompson not publishing enough graphic novels. The bright passion for libraries glows so brightly in her eyes that she is universally exempt from paying library fines. She’s wanted to be a librarian since she was 12, though she took a hiatus to be a both a science student and a bicycle mechanic. Tonight, she cut her thumb while slicing up rhubarb to make pie.

Please drop us a line if you want to introduce yourselves as regular readers or - of course - send us a gripping story from your library community. Our main account will continue to be the info@librarianactivist.org; you can get in touch with any of us through there.

Again: we hope we inform your socks off.

Thanks and cheers!
J,D,S