Lana Thelen

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About Me

Hello. My name is Lana Thelen and I am the Asian and Pacific American Librarians Association 2007 Emerging Leader participant. I am also a 2005 ALA / PLA Spectrum Scholar, a Joint Conference of Librarians of Color Travel Scholarship Recipient, and the 2006 APALA Scholarship Recipient.

As of January, 2007, I am working as the Deputy Director / Outreach Librarian at Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library in Watertown, Massachusetts. I love this job and couldn't be happier about working here. Before coming to Perkins, I worked as the Circulation Supervisor at Northeastern University School of Law Library.

I was born and raised on a working farm in Watsonville, California. I received my Bachelor's Degree from UC Berkeley in sociology back in 2002, after which I lived in San Francisco, until moving far away to "Bahstan" in 2005. In December, 2006 I graduated from Simmons College in Boston, MA with a Masters of Science in Library and Information Science (what a mouthful!). I'm the first person in my family to get a Master's Degree, and my brother and I are the first people to go to college in our family. And, no, I don't like the winters here...


Busy Bee

Like most of the other Emerging Leaders, I have a tendency to overbook myself with commitments. But somehow, I seem to get it all done. Within the LIS world, I am active in a number of groups.

Now

  • I am currently on three committees:
  1. APALA - Program Committee
  2. LAMA - Leadership Development Committee
  3. Spectrum Scholars - Leadership Institute Planning Committee
  • I am an active member of the following groups:
    • APALA
    • Progressive Librarians Guild
    • PLA
    • Radical Reference
    • REFORMA
    • Spectrum Scholars
  • And a burgeoning member of the group with quite possibly the longest acronym in LIS:

As an LIS Student

Life before Library School

  • I worked for the amazing Freedom Archives in San Francisco
  • I was once one of the infamous legion of mod hipster library clerks at UC Berkeley's main circulation desk
  • And of course, a lifelong compulsive organizer of "stuff"


Contact Information

Don't be shy...

lana.thelen|at|perkins|dot|org

More info can be found on my online resume.

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