2000 - Mike Lauruhn

August 25, 2008

Since receiving my Masters of Library Science in 2000, I have been working with Internet, software, and media companies. I’m am currently consulting full-time for Taxonomy Strategies, LLC. I consult with large companies and government agencies to apply metadata, classification, taxonomy, and collection development principles to their content management systems and other data repositories. My post-UCLA employment history includes Looksmart.com, CMP Media, and Interwoven. I served as a volunteer at the Electronic Discovery Center at the San Francisco Library and am currently the librarian at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco. My wife and I live in Oakland, California with our two cats.

Mike Lauruhn mikelauruhn@gmail.com

See also:

http://www.taxonomystrategies.com/

http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelauruhn

http://home.comcast.net/~mlauruhn/

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1977/2000 Cindy Mediavilla

November 2, 2006

I got my MLS in 1977 under the sage tutelage of Robert Hayes (dean), Robert Vosper (advisor) and Betty Rosenberg (thesis advisor).  When I entered library school, I thought I’d become an archivist because, in those days, I thought I liked books, etc., much more than I liked people; but as everybody now knows, I ended up figuring out I liked people much more than I thought was possible!  I became a public librarian and worked in various public libraries throughout Southern California for 18 years.  In 1995, I returned to UCLA for a doctorate in library science, which I received in 2000.  Today I am Library Programs Consultant for the California State Library and teach part-time for the UCLA Department of Information Studies.  My main research area is after-school homework assistance in public libraries, about which I’ve written a book and several articles.  My main hobby is collecting Arthurian fiction–a passion that Betty Rosenberg cultivated in me 30 years ago!  I was president of the California Library Association in 2001 and had the proud honor of being named UCLA LISAA Distinguished Alumni in 2005.  I love being a librarian!

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