1987 - Jessica Schwab
After graduating from GSEIS in ’87 I moved to the San Francisco area and worked for 2.5 years in the law firm “Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati”. It was a very stressful and challenging place to work but I learned to think on my feet and became a very experienced online searcher. With the help, assistance, and gentle prodding of John Richardson I also published my thesis “National Security Restraints of the Federal Government on Academic Freedom and Scientific Communication in the United States,” in the Journal of Government Information, 1990, Vol. 17, pg 17. This article was reprinted in Bill Katz, ed. Library Lit 21: The Best of 1990 (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991). Recipient, 1990 Bernard M. Fry Award for best article in Government Publications Review.
I soon moved to the DC area (actually Northern Virginia) and decided to stay home with my two children, Alex and CiCi for about eight years. I did attend conferences and workshops with ALA, AALL, and DCALL. I reentered the work force in 1998 into a new field of librarianship. I now work at in the Prince William Public Library System at the Bull Run Regional Library. I am an Adult Services Librarian and I enjoy working with the public. I have been quite active in VLA including committee work in the Intellectual Freedom Committee, the Region V Committee, a Conference Planning Committee, and through the Legislative Committee extensive lobbying with local and national legislators. Last year another legislative committee member and myself coordinated the National Library Legislative Day for Virginia.
Please contact me if you are in the DC area and would like to meet with an alumni of GSEIS!
Jessica Schwab jschwab@pwcgov.org
