{"id":1313,"date":"2014-10-09T19:18:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T00:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2014-12-29T07:48:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:48:43","slug":"meet-carlos-fernandez-an-rt-member-profile-by-tess-goldwasser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1313","title":{"rendered":"Meet Carlos Fernandez!: An RT member profile by Tess Goldwasser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Tess Goldwasser<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carlos is the International Documents Librarian at Florida International University. He is responsible for one of only two public university libraries to have a depository for both the United Nations and the European Union. He\u2019s also responsible for the collection and maintenance of documents from the Organization of American States and other Inter-governmental and Non-governmental organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos has a passion for knowledge. He has two masters\u2019 degrees, which he\u2019s very proud of. He says, \u201cFor years, I suffered from low self-image and I never believed I could accomplish such feats. I am also proud of the fact that after countless applications, interviews, and rejection letters, I finally landed a full faculty position at my current institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He and his partner, Richard, in Hollywood, FL. They have three cats and one half-blind, very deaf 15 year-old poodle.\u00a0 They are always planning future excursions and escapes whenever possible. Carlos also enjoys reading and gardening.<\/p>\n<p>If he could be an animal, he would be a pampered house cat. Why? \u201cLots of love, naps, and cuddles!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If he could have a dinner party with 5 culturally or historically significant figures, living or dead, he would invite Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Francis of Assisi, Barbra Streisand, and Judy Garland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tess Goldwasser Carlos is the International Documents Librarian at Florida International University. He is responsible for one of only two public university libraries to have a depository for both the United Nations and the European Union. He\u2019s also responsible for the collection and maintenance of documents from the Organization of American States and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,59,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-people","category-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}