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Shelley Blundell

Website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/shelleyblundell

Twitter handle: ShelleyB1980

About:
Originally from South Africa, I moved to the States in 2000 and have both marveled at and been delighted in the library system in Ohio. Being a frequent visitor to libraries all my life, I chose to pursue an MLIS in Library and Information Science (while still keeping a toe in my undergraduate pursuit of journalism), where I felt I could blend skills acquired in journalism with information science for the "good," and possibly use said skills to affect some serious change in the academic library realm. While I am currently working as a special librarian for a Northeast Ohio newspaper, I am still extremely interested in academic librarianship and do my best to keep up-to-date on trends therein. My areas of research focus on Social Media/Networking tools and how they can best be utilized in educational and professional capacities to advance missions, visions, and continuing education in information literacy and fluency.