Librarian Wardrobe

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

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

1. Alexandra Small, Student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (IL)
2. Irene Zapata, Student, UCLA (CA)
3. Cathy Billings, Art Librarian, Brand Library (CA)
4. Teresa Soleau, Digital Library Specialist at the Getty Research Institute (CA)
5. Jean Hines, Librarian at Pratt Manhattan Center Library and Kai Smith, MSLIS student at Pratt Institute (NYC)
6. Amanda Milbourn, Assistant Librarian, Disney Consumer Products (CA)
7. Suz Massen, Chief of Public Services, The Frick Collection (NYC)
8. Anne Simmons, Vertical Files Librarian, National Gallery of Art (DC)
9. Barret Havens, Outreach Architecture Librarian, Woodbury University (CA)
10. 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 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 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. 

#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.

1. 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.
   
   

2. 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!
   
   

3. 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.”
   
   

4. 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.”
   
   

5. 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.
   
   

6. 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.”
   
   

7. 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!!)