Gail McGovern's Page - Library Youth and Teen Services 2.0

New Media, New Libraries, New Services for Youth

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Technologies You Enjoy:: Anything Macintosh. I have a 24" iMac and 15" PowerBook G4.
I am one of the founders of MacNexus, the Sacramento Macintosh User Group. I write a monthly column for our newsletter on cool websites.

I love to learn new things and try out all types of software, social networks, etc.

About Me:: I grew up in Milton, Massachusetts. I have spent many happy hours using and working in libraries. My first experience was as a user of a branch of the Milton Public Library seven houses away from my home.

I have a B.A. in religion and M.S. in Library Science from Syracuse University. I worked as a student assistant at Syracuse University, library trainee at a county law library in Syracuse, bookmobile librarian, children’s librarian and city librarian with the Timberland Regional Library System (WA). I moved to California in 1973 as the project director for the Lake County Library Project. From 1974-1995, I administered grant programs, provided consulting services and conducted training programs for the Library Development Services Bureau of the California State Library.

I've been a full time independent consultant since 1996. After going to a FISH! workshop, I gave myself the title of Planning and Training Wizard.