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Ahniwa Ferrari, captured here in the rare state of not-emerging.

My name is Ahniwa Ferrari, and I was an emerging librarian long before I became an ALA Emerging Leader. Now I find myself, pupa-esque, once again, quietly palpating in some informatical cocoon. Not that I'm not excited, no, it's just that all this emerging can tire a guy out and my last set of wings aren't even dry yet!


So I started library work at the Oberlin Public and Grafton-Midview Public Libraries in Ohio from about 2002-2004, then moved back to Olympia WA for personal reasons and worked mostly at the O'Grady Library at Saint Martin's University and a little bit at the Tumwater Timberland Library until 2006 when I was accepted to grad school and moved to Montreal to attend the prestigious School of Information Studies at McGill University. I was president of the MLIS student body, graduated in 2008, and started working at the Washington State Library on May 1, 2008. Hooray!


I work at the WSL in Library Development, and my main job is to coordinate the statewide virtual reference cooperative. I also help coordinate other grand online projects, including: statewide database licensing, downloadable audiobooks (coming soon!), and the statewide catalog. A couple times a month I hop in a state car and go visit a handful of libraries somewhere in Washington State, which is by far my favorite aspect of the job (though virtual reference is pretty damn cool as well).


In my free time (if I had any), I like to play darts and bocce, create webcomics with my more artistic friends (I write, they draw), drink coffee, write stories (preferably about pirates), and keep up on interesting technologies and social trends. I just got married in July (2008) and couldn't be happier.


I like French poetry and the color blue.
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