{"id":743,"date":"2014-04-01T22:38:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T03:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=743"},"modified":"2014-12-29T07:49:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:49:21","slug":"meet-anna-fidgeon-an-rt-member-profile-by-tess-goldwasser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/743","title":{"rendered":"Meet Anna Fidgeon!: An RT Member Profile By Tess Goldwasser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Tess Goldwasser<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Beginning her second year as a juror for the Over the Rainbow book list committee, Anna describes it as \u201ca librarian&#8217;s dream\u201d getting to \u201cread a ton\u201d and help compile an annotated bibliography of great LGBT books. \u201cBasically, after all my time trying to convince people that librarians do more than just read at work, here I am reading for work!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anna is a Digital Learning Initiatives Librarian at California State University, Northridge, near Los Angeles. She works on online tutorials and course guides while experimenting with different software and technology and also does reference, instruction, outreach, research, and collection development for the Theatre, Anthropology, and American Indian Studies programs. She said she is \u201cpretty floored\u201d to be faculty and that \u201c\u2019librarianship has brought out skills and confidence I never realized I had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Washington state, Anna reported that as a \u201cdie-hard Seattleite\u201d she has the \u201cusual\u201d interests: craft beer, sewing, reading, trying independently-run restaurants, and recycling. Now that she lives in \u201cThe Valley,\u201d she feels like an anthropologist researching strange customs to report back home! Anna lives with her \u201cspecial lady friend,\u201d an \u201chonorary librarian\u201d she met while in library school, who waits tables and humors her with stories of the celebrities she serves.<\/p>\n<p>Exploration is Anna\u2019s passion. She is always looking for a new place to travel, a new skill to learn, and new topics to research. She says she is a \u201cdevoted novice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked what animal she would be, she said, \u201cDuh,Grizzly Bear! You get to hibernate and eat as much sushi as you can catch.\u201d Can\u2019t argue with that!<\/p>\n<p>For a dinner party, Anna would invite Amy Poehler, Kate McKinnon, Maya Rudolph, Chelsea Handler, and Jennifer Lawrence, adding, \u201cIt would be nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tess Goldwasser Beginning her second year as a juror for the Over the Rainbow book list committee, Anna describes it as \u201ca librarian&#8217;s dream\u201d getting to \u201cread a ton\u201d and help compile an annotated bibliography of great LGBT books. \u201cBasically, after all my time trying to convince people that librarians do more than just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,60,59,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-columns","category-people","category-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}