About
The official-sounding bits:
Cindi Trainor is the Coordinator for Library Technology and Data Services at Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, where together with her awesome staff she plans for, implements, maintains and assesses technology in the libraries. She is the former Director of Library/Information Technology for the Libraries of the Claremont Colleges in southern California and spent several years on the Electronic Resources & Support Team at the University of Kentucky Libraries.
As a blogger, photographer and mom, Cindi enjoys making and sharing her observations with the world, whether writing about emerging technology, posting photos to flickr, or tweeting the latest wise words from her daughters. She is active in LITA, and a proud member of the library geek community. She also writes and shoots photos for ALA’s TechSource blog.
Find other electronic tidbits of Cindi’s life at flickr, twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, and LinkedIn or read more about Cindi’s vision for technology in libraries at WebJunction.
The posts on this blog are solely the opinions of the author and do not represent official positions of the administration of Eastern Kentucky University libraries.
The unofficial and much more fun bit:
Given that I haven’t had an original idea in my life (contradict me if you like, it might help my mood, thankee), I’m writing this page after reading similar pages written by a librarian that I admire very much but have only met once, briefly: jessamyn west.
So, this is a page about me. I am a librarian currently living and working in Central Kentucky, at a regional comprehensive University. I’m still not certain what Regional Comprehensive University means, but here I am. I have two daughters, who are currently six and four, and they are at once the loves of my life and … how to put it nicely so that I don’t crush their future-teenage souls…. the biggest challenges in my life. That’s not true, actually–they are mostly very easy and very well-behaved, but the role of parent and unexpected question-answerer sometimes doesn’t come easy to me.
My husband, Ken, and I have been married for more than fourteen years now (and we even told Facebook), and I’d have to say that we have been pretty lucky so far. He’s a great guy who sacrificed his career as a Database Administrator to care for our kids, something that I do not think I could have done, or at least would not have been able to do willingly and cheerfully for as long as he has.
I love to figure things out, and that currently means playing with technology in libraries and doing unreasonably complicated things with computers and cameras and image files. I’m pleased (and, honestly, surprised) to find that I have a large number of friends, many of whom I love deeply, many of whom I wish I knew better, or at least knew how to talk to better, or at least knew how to talk to more frequently and meaningfully.
It’s during these long and extremely-freaking-cold winter months that I miss Southern California, where we lived for six years, and where our children were born. I do not miss it in July, even when it’s 90 degrees and 100% humid here at home.