Everybody loves to read about other people! After all, it’s hard to connect with people you don’t know. That’s the theory behind one of the planned features in Connect, WLA’s new eNewsletter. We would like to feature a member profile in each issue of Connect. And that’s where YOU come in! We can’t profile members, unless members agree to be profiled.

The first issue of Connect featured a stimulating and intriguing interview with Ro McKernan, Instructional/Collection Development Librarian at Whatcom Community College. You can read her interview on the WLA web site. Under the topic “words to live by,” Ro wrote that “The message I seem to be getting from the universe lately has been “So it goes” and “Take life one day at a time,” which is hard for me because I tend to think ahead and run through possible scenarios more then I need too. ” During the course of the interview Ro told us about her job, her connection to WLA, her reading habits, and provided a few tidbits relating to her personal life.

You too, can be featured in an upcoming issue of Connect. All you have to do is provide brief written responses to a series of informal questions, designed to let the real you emerge from anonymity into your well-deserved 15 minutes of fame. Except that once on the WLA Web site, your 15 minutes could stretch into permanent mini-celebrity status, as these profiles remain available for your colleagues and fellow WLA members to peruse into the future!

To participate, write down your responses to the interview questions, and send them to WLA Marketing and Communications Committee member Will Stuivenga, who is acting as editor for the Connect Member Profile feature. You don’t have to answer all of the questions, just those that you are comfortable with, although we encourage you to answer as many as you can, in order to generate a substantive profile. If you can send a recent digital photo, high resolution preferred, that will enhance your profile significantly.

Here are the questions:

About work (please fill in the blanks, and answer the question): If employed, how do you like your job as _________________________________ at ______________________________ Library?

How long have you been a member of WLA?

How have you been personally involved in WLA?

What does WLA mean to you? or How have you benefited from being a member of WLA?

What is your favorite thing about libraries?

What is the last book you read? Or what are you reading right now?

What area of the library stacks do you like to browse in for your own enjoyment?

Where did you go to school (library school, if applicable)?

Do you have any children? Any pets?

What is your favorite spectator sport?

What is your favorite travel destination?

What are your favorite foods?

What is your favorite leisure-time activity, or what do you do to relax?

What is your favorite music?

Is there someone you personally admire and would want to emulate?

What are some words to live by?

Please let us know if you would like to be featured! Contact Will Stuivenga at will.stuivenga@sos.wa.gov.

Tags: Connect, members, people, profiles, questions, Ro McKernan

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