About Me

Hi Everyone,
Welcome to my blog, and thank you for visiting! My name is Kimberly Giedd, and I am the author/creator/administrator of this blog. I usually go by the shortened version of my name, just “Kim.” I am originally from Watertown, Massachusetts, located about 10 miles west of Boston. I attended Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, New York, where I was the recipient of the Lincoln and Therese Filene Music Scholarship, and where I studied history and government. After graduating in 2005, I moved back to Watertown and worked in law for about two years before returning to graduate school. Currently, I attend Simmons College’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science full-time. I also work part-time as an assistant in the library of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, located in Lexington, Massachusetts. Lincoln Laboratory is the Department of Defense funded research and development center of MIT, specializing in air defense. You can check out their website by following this link: http://www.ll.mit.edu/.

I am currently working on a clean-up project for the Laboratory library online catalog. Over time, the names of authors had been catalog inconsistently, thus yielding a large number of variations of author names. It is my job to search the publications authored by Laboratory employees in order to streamline the variants, ultimately to maximize author searches. I also do some other odds-and-ends within the Laboratory archives.Ultimately, I am not sure of the specifics of my future library career. So far, I am interested in doing reference, and I think any college library would be a nice environment. However, I am open to a number of possibilities. I decided to take this course because I would like to expand upon and improve my overall technology skills. I feel that learning about blogs, wikis, and all the forms of social bookmarking is important knowledge. I believe the course will help me build good general technical skills that I will be able to take with me to any position in the future. I am excited to get started!