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- Jenny Levine is an American librarian and digital strategist who has been a longtime evangelist for the adoption of emerging Internet technologies by public libraries, in particular blogging and RSS. Since 2006, she has been a member of the RSS Advisory Board, a group that publishes the RSS specification and helps developers with web syndication. For over a decade, she has used her Shifted Librarian blog to encourage librarians to start blogs so they can "create an authentic voice for what has traditionally been a faceless, inhuman institution." One of the first librarians to publish a web site, which she began doing in 1995, her blog became so popular that she was once the top search result on Google for the term "Jenny." Levine works as an internet strategist for the American Library Association (ALA) and has been with the association since 2006. She spearheaded the creation of the ALA's Games and Gaming Round Table, a committee devoted to exploring how computer games and game design can be incorporated into libraries. Before working for the ALA, she was the internet development specialist and strategist for the Chicago Suburban Library System, now part of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System. She was hired as the technology coordinator for Grande Prairie Public Library District in 1996. In 2003, she was named one of the library industry's "Movers and Shakers" of the year by Library Journal. The publication called her an "information technology evangelist" and observed, "Whenever she sees new gadgets -- Bluetooth-equipped pens, or digital wi-fi cameras, or software that shows you how a web page displays on different kinds of platforms -- Levine immediately sees ways librarians can use them. ... She's made people outside our profession realize that librarians are cool." After graduating with a Master of Library and Information Science in 1992 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and taking a job as a reference librarian, Levine fell into her role as an Internet evangelist by chance. She said in an interview, "One day a patron asked for a recipe for Irish Soda Bread, and I couldn't find it in our collection. So I decided to try the CompuServe account I had just found out we had (that no one ever used) to fill the patron's need. Sure enough, there was a recipe I was able to print out for her. She was happy, and I was hooked." (en)
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- Jenny Levine is an American librarian and digital strategist who has been a longtime evangelist for the adoption of emerging Internet technologies by public libraries, in particular blogging and RSS. Since 2006, she has been a member of the RSS Advisory Board, a group that publishes the RSS specification and helps developers with web syndication. For over a decade, she has used her Shifted Librarian blog to encourage librarians to start blogs so they can "create an authentic voice for what has traditionally been a faceless, inhuman institution." One of the first librarians to publish a web site, which she began doing in 1995, her blog became so popular that she was once the top search result on Google for the term "Jenny." (en)
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