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- Name of Your Library:
- Von der Ahe Library / Loyola Marymount University / Los Angeles, CA
- About Me:
- "Shaping Minds"
(From a recent interview for the homepage of Loyola Marymount University)
Raymond Andrade ’04 has had the opportunity to experience LMU from two very distinct perspectives. First as an undergraduate philosophy major and political science minor, and now as a member of the Von der Ahe library team. If not for his experience as a student, perhaps he wouldn’t be aiming to serve the public as a librarian today.
It was at LMU that Andrade was first exposed to the ideas of ancient Greek philosophers. “Plato’s ideas of human virtues and how we should live as a society addressed some of the most important questions about humanity,” said Andrade. “I knew after just one course that philosophy was my passion.”
Matters of the mind have always sparked Andrade’s curiosity. However, he likes to think that his experience at LMU has given him a more holistic approach to the way he lives his life. “Besides my parents, being a student at LMU has had the biggest influence in my life,” Andrade said.
Andrade started working part time at the Los Angeles County Public Library immediately after high school. The idea of serving a wide spectrum of people fascinated him and in 2003 he joined the Von der Ahe library team as a library assistant. Becoming a librarian seems to be the natural professional option for Andrade.
“Libraries to me represent the most effective gateway to the intellectual dimension of the human experience,” Andrade said. He attended the recent groundbreaking of the William H. Hannon Library in October and was excited to hear Father Lawton emphasize that the library is one of the three most important buildings on campus because it nurtures the mind.
“Mind, body and spirit is actually the way I like to approach my life,” explains Andrade, “That is one of the things I value most about LMU’s approach to educate the whole person.” When he is not in the library cataloging volumes or taking online courses to complete his master’s degree in library science, he can be found working out at the Burns Recreation Center or playing his guitar behind Sacred Heart Chapel to keep his life in balance.
The nurturing environment that cares about the whole person that Andrade enjoyed as a student continues to have a strong presence in his role as a staff member. The support of his colleagues has helped him excel with his professional endeavors.
Most recently, encouraged by his supervisors, the first generation graduate applied for and won the prestigious Spectrum Scholarship from the American Library Association to assist with his studies.
“I am grateful to have the support of my colleagues,” said Andrade, “I think the best part of being a staff member here is knowing that LMU is making a genuine effort to shape a positive character in its students.”
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"2007 Spectrum Scholar: Raymond Andrade"
(From a recent announcement on the homepage of the Von der Ahe Library at Loyola Marymount University)
We are pleased to announce that Raymond Andrade, Library Assistant in the Cataloging Department, has won a 2007 Spectrum Scholarship from the American Library Association (ALA) to pursue a master’s degree from the School of Library and Information Science through San Jose State University’s distance education program. Spectrum Scholarships are awarded to American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students. Spectrum provides a one-year $5,000 scholarship and over $1,500 in professional development opportunities to each of the 80 Scholars, including attendance at the ninth Spectrum Leadership Institute to be held in Anaheim, California in June, 2008. Raymond has also been selected to work as a Research Assistant for Prof. Charlotte Ford in the graduate library school at San Jose State University.
Raymond is a 2004 graduate of Loyola Marymount University, with a major in philosophy and a minor in political science. From 1996 through 2003, he worked at the County of Los Angeles Public Library. He views his decision to become a librarian as a way to fulfill LMU’s mission to educate students who will serve others. As a Latino, Raymond believes that there is no better way for him to serve than to return to the public library and serve the community.
For more information about the Spectrum Scholarships, please see the ALA website: http://www.ala.org/ala/diversity/spectrum/spectrumscholarsb/scholar...
- Library Website:
- http://www.myspace.com/AllOrNothingRaymond
- What is Your Interest in Library 2.0 (not yes or no)
- Currently attending San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science and I'm enrolled in a "Web 2.0" class for the Spring 2008 semester and hope to combine my assignments with establishing a presence on "social networking" websites for the library at which I work: the Von der Ahe Library at Loyola Marymount University.
"Building Academic Library 2.0" November 2007 Conference in Berkeley, California, USA ... (more descriptive info. is provided below the ~70 min. video). :)
Academic Library 2.0 Keynote Speaker: Meredith Farkas, Distance Learning Librarian Norwich University, Northfield A Conference sponsored by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division
Once a symbolic bastion of traditional accumulations of specialized knowledge, today's academic library operates in an information landscape grown increasingly variegated and difficult to traverse.
Paradoxically, at the same time, data, information, knowledge, cultural production, and scholarship are far more accessible, appropriable, and manipulable than ever before. New media attract widespread attention, more pliable technologies emerge with increasing frequency, and--most importantly--young generations of students and faculty with aptitudes, skills, and expectations borne of a world massively defined by the Internet and its progeny are populating the halls of academe.
The convergence of the once distinct technological and social meanings of the term "network" is evident in the rise of communities of remote collaborations among friends, acquaintances, students, and researchers. These developments compel academic libraries to consider how best to apply new technologies to suit users' demands and to satisfy their institutional and educational missions.
The Academic Library 2.0 conference will address the phenomenon of academic libraries taking affirmative steps to deploy technologies and services that facilitate users' virtually instant connection to diverse sources of knowledge and information, as well as to help users directly contribute form and substance to those sources. (less)
Added to YouTube on November 19, 2007
Academic Library 2.0 Keynote Speaker: Meredith Farkas, Distance Learning Librarian Norwich University, Northfield A Conference sponsored by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division
Once a symbolic bastion of traditional accumulations of specialized knowledge, today's academic library operates in an information landscape grown increasingly variegated and difficult to traverse.
Paradoxically, at the same time, data, information, knowledge, cultural production, and scholarship are far more accessible, appropriable, and manipulable than ever before. New media attract widespread attention, more pliable technologies emerge with increasing frequency, and--most importantly--young generations of students and faculty with aptitudes, skills, and expectations borne of a world massively defined by the Internet and its progeny are populating the halls of academe.
The convergence of the once distinct technological and social meanings of the term "network" is evident in the rise of communities of remote collaborations among friends, acquaintances, students, and researchers. These developments compel academic libraries to consider how best to apply new technologies to suit users' demands and to satisfy their institutional and educational missions.
The Academic Library 2.0 conference will address the phenomenon of academic libraries taking affirmative steps to deploy technologies and services that facilitate users' virtually instant connection to diverse sources of knowledge and information, as well as to help users directly contribute form and substance to those sources. (less)
Added to YouTube on November 19, 2007
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Public Library Innovation Program
November 22, 2009 at 6pm to February 28, 2010 at 7pm – Rome, Italy
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First off, congrats on being an ALA Spectrum Scholar. Very impressive. I may looking at applying this year, I hope it's not too late.
If you're talking about LIBR 240 (Info Tech Tools and Apps), I'm actually registered for that course for Spring, putting 204 off 'til the summer. Yeah, it sounds like fun, but like a lot of work, too. Crossing my fingers I'll keep up. :)
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