Librarian Wardrobe

Head librarian, Library of the Faculty of Architecture, Aachen...

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:18:52 -0700

Head librarian, Library of the Faculty of Architecture, Aachen University (Germany)

So many great shots of librarians with bikes! This was really...

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:36:47 -0700

So many great shots of librarians with bikes! This was really fun and we hope to do it again, so if you missed getting a picture in for this first collage, there will be another opportunity later in the summer. Thanks for submitting!

@skeskali, Web Services / UX Librarian, Vancouver BC
@charbooth, Instruction Services Manager & E-learning Librarian, Academic Library, CA
@oohlalali, Librarian, Brussels Belgium
@catladylib, Reference & Instruction Librarian in Residence, Academic Library, IL
@s_elaineclark, School Librarian, CA
@jolietjosh, Academic Librarian, IN
@nolankr, Criminology Librarian, Academic Library, Toronto
@diylibrarian, Librarian, Special Library, PA
Library Assistant, Academic Library, Oxford, England
Shelly Hawk, Library Associate, Princeton Public Library, NJ

Library conference style — double the fun! Community...

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:32:59 -0700

Library conference style — double the fun!

Community college librarians

Portland, Oregon

I’m a librarian at a suburban high school outside of...

Fri, 03 May 2013 13:23:06 -0700

I’m a librarian at a suburban high school outside of Chicago. Today is the day we wear our school colors (blue & gold). This is my favorite “spirit day” shirt.

Take a picture of yourself with your bike for your commute to or...

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:52:50 -0700

Take a picture of yourself with your bike for your commute to or from work and Tweet it at @libwardrobe (or submit the photo here) from now until Friday, May 10th to be included in a sweet collage of librarians-who-bike-to-work!

You have to be in the picture, showing what you’re wearing (no pictures of only bicycles). Bike selfies are harder than regular selfies, so you might need to enlist a colleague!

One more post for #alris2013 with some additional photos that...

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:42:08 -0700

One more post for #alris2013 with some additional photos that came in:

1. Jamie Vander Broek, University of Michigan, Exhibits & Programming Librarian

2. Derek Quezada, Getty Research Institute, Reference Library

3. Linsday King, Public Service Librarian, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University

I call this look “Creature Feature”. Systems...

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:18:26 -0700

I call this look “Creature Feature”.

Systems Librarian

Jewish Library

New York, NY

@BibliosaurusRex

Looks like #ARLIS2013 was a hit this year! Thanks to our...

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:40:00 -0700

Looks like #ARLIS2013 was a hit this year! Thanks to our ARLIS2013 photographers for submitting pictures and details below!

Alexandra Small, Student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (IL)
Irene Zapata, Student, UCLA (CA)
Cathy Billings, Art Librarian, Brand Library (CA)
Teresa Soleau, Digital Library Specialist at the Getty Research Institute (CA)
Jean Hines, Librarian at Pratt Manhattan Center Library and Kai Smith, MSLIS student at Pratt Institute (NYC)
Amanda Milbourn, Assistant Librarian, Disney Consumer Products (CA)
Suz Massen, Chief of Public Services, The Frick Collection (NYC)
Anne Simmons, Vertical Files Librarian, National Gallery of Art (DC)
Barret Havens, Outreach Architecture Librarian, Woodbury University (CA)
Marcie Farwell, MLIS Student at Queens College (CUNY, NYC). Marcie made both her sweater and her skirt!

C2E2 was a blast! There were so many creative costumes and...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:13:00 -0700

C2E2 was a blast! There were so many creative costumes and outfits from all the conference attendees. It was hard to capture the variety in just one day, so if you were in attendance, please feel free to submit your photos!

1. The Prisoner aka Tina Coleman, membership specialist at ALA, Chicago IL. The only thing missing from this photo is that pesky Rover, which might be a good thing.

2. Alyne: library school student, reference assistant, and graphic novel expert at University of Illinois at Chicago.

3. A librarian super couple! Daena and Ben, academic librarian and technology manager in Chicago, IL.

4. Rob Dumas, reference librarian and coder extraordinaire at Chicago Public Library.

5. Me (Annie Pho), wearing a Party Cat t-shirt! Academic librarian at University of Illinois Chicago.

(Thanks for taking pictures, @catladylib!)

Hitting up conferences this weekend? Keep an eye out for these...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:15:41 -0700

Hitting up conferences this weekend? Keep an eye out for these ladies (in order of pictures)…….

Annie Pho: She will be covering C2E2 in Chicago on Friday 4/26!

Annie Pho currently works as a resident librarian at University of Illinois at Chicago. Her interests are in academic librarianship, information literacy, digital culture, and hanging out with cats. She tweets as @catladylib. Looking to snap pictures of people wearing cool cosplay costumes, the color purple, clever t-shirts, or all around awesome style.

Leslie Jankowski, Effie Patelos, and Nicole LaMoreaux: covering ARLIS/NA in Pasadena for #ARLIS2013!

Leslie Niemczura Jankowski is the Assistant Director of Library Services at the Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus, Ohio. In addition to serving as the sole cataloger, she also acts as Library Instruction Coordinator. Outside of the library she spends time with her husband Bil and toddler son Simon, and sings back up for the band Nick Tolford and Company.

Nicole LaMoreaux is currently an Evening Librarian at LIM College’s Adrian G. Marcuse Library and a Reference Assistant at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Gladys Marcus Library. She received her Master of Library Science degree from the University at Buffalo, SUNY and received her Bachelor of Science degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY. Nicole has had a keen interest in fashion dating back to when she was in kindergarten in Alabama and always wore a wedding dress. She is excited to be a contributor of Librarian Wardrobe for the ARLIS-NA national conference in Pasadena.

Effie Patelos is the Acting Librarian who directs and manages the services, resources, and staff of the Shore + Moffat Library at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design for the 2012/13 academic year. Previously she was a Reference and Instruction Librarian and Information Literacy Coordinator at Concordia University in Montreal. She has a Master of Information in Library and Information Science from the University of Toronto conferred in 2011.

Testing out the new Reading Room on Gloucester Street in...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:25:35 -0700

Testing out the new Reading Room on Gloucester Street in Christchurch, New Zealand. This initiative reflects some of the transitional and temporary architecture after an earthquake on 22 February 2011.

This Transitional Reading Room parklet is adjacent to the new proposed Central Library site.

Instruction Librarian Academic library New Jersey

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:44:41 -0700

Instruction Librarian

Academic library

New Jersey

#ACRL2013, you were soooooooo good looking! We saw tons of...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:00:37 -0700

#ACRL2013, you were soooooooo good looking! We saw tons of creative fashions at the conference in Indianapolis last week. Below are just a few, but we encourage you to submit your own to be highlighted here at Librarian Wardrobe. Thanks to everyone who put up with our awkward interruptions and also to Lindsey Rae (Technology and Public Services Librarian at Champlain College) for her iPhone photography skills.

We caught up with Char Booth just before she took the stage to co-present “Love your library”: building goodwill from the inside out and the outside in. When we asked her about her choice of clothing she had quite a profound response: “Ties make me… feel.” Well, the presentation made us feel (awesome), so be sure to check out the handout and tweets at #makerlib.
Rachel Gammons, Learning Design Librarian at Millersville University, took a break from co-presenting her poster to talk with us about her choice of clothing: “My boyfriend told me I couldn’t pull off gold lamé for the conference, so I set out to prove him wrong.” Success!
Rita was spotted from across the Convention Center food court wearing an amazing short khaki trench-coat and silk scarf. She looked so fashionable that my friends bet me she wasn’t a librarian at all. tl;dr I won drinks that evening. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Rita Vine, Faculty Liaison & Information Literacy Coordinator at University of Toronto Robarts Library: “This is how I dress for work everyday.”
It was the subtle details that caught our attention when interviewing Michael Greenlee, Reference, Instruction, and Web Services Librarian at University of Tulsa. Along with his unbuttoned chambray shirt and comfortable brown oxfords, he takes pride in his linen pocket square: “I like it because it is something professional men at one time wouldn’t be seen without.”
D. Waheedah Bilal is an Assistant Librarian, Liberal Arts Team Leader, and Liaison for English at Indiana University-Purdue University Library and one of the only locals we caught up with over the conference. Initially drawn to her blue color-palette (nail polish included), we concluded that she truly rocked the headscarf. Waheedah cited “comfort” as the reason she selected this ensemble for the conference.
Bold colors were definitely a conference clothing theme, and Cat Silvers from Florida State University Strozier Library was doing it right! She had this to say about her wardrobe: “I like bright and fun colors.”
Melissa Gold, Science Librarian at Millersville University, co-presented her contributed paper bright and early at 8 AM on Wednesday morning. She was dressed to the nines in a pencil skirt with argyle tights: “They make me feel powerful!”

(Thanks to @edorney!!)

Adult circ/Acquisitions librarian Public Library Oklahoma,...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:00:46 -0700

Adult circ/Acquisitions librarian

Public Library

Oklahoma, USA.

This was taken at the Oklahoma Library Association’s annual conference last week. The skirt is something I picked up at a vintage thrift store in Tucson during a crazy roadtrip, the shirt is the Pie(rate) Chart design from Shirt Woot, and everything is else … well, who knows.

Doctor Who socks, at work, I love my job. Branch manager Public...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:00:46 -0700

Doctor Who socks, at work, I love my job.

Branch manager

Public library

California

Couldn’t fit myself into the shot, thus the awkward...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:59:03 -0700

Couldn’t fit myself into the shot, thus the awkward angle!

Jiaxin Low

Business librarian

Singapore Management University

Wherein I attempt to answer how many shirts is too...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:03:04 -0700

Wherein I attempt to answer how many shirts is too many?

Instruction librarian

Academic library, Los Angeles

Librarian Wardrobe #ACRL13 Coverage with @edorney!

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:20:54 -0700

Going to (or already at) #ACRL13? Don’t worry, your stylin’ styles won’t go undocumented. We’ve asked Erin Dorney, fabulous Outreach Librarian at Millersville University in PA, to cover the event. We’re giving her free reign to show us what’s going on at the conference, so we are excited to see what she submits!

One thing Erin will be examining and asking people is: Why did you decide to wear what you did? If you see her, let her know and you could be featured here on LW! Or you could, ya know, submit your own, too :)

Here is Erin below!

The rest of the outfit’s only so-so, but today’s...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:19:20 -0700

The rest of the outfit’s only so-so, but today’s definitely a day for patterned feet.

Academic librarian
Toronto, Ontario

Teen Librarian Public Library Illinois

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:21:21 -0700

Teen Librarian

Public Library

Illinois