About

Leigh Anne Vrabel currently works as a senior staff librarian in the Reference Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Main.   An 8- year veteran who worked her way up from clerkdom, she is still somewhat of a newbie minnow in an organization whose history and culture date back to 1895 (and for the record, she finds this awesome).  She doesn’t blog very much these days because she’s knee-deep in all sorts of work-related stuff and things.  However, when she does make time to write, she is more inclined to take a  philosophical bent toward the business of library life and service than a nuts-and-bolts primer on what she’s doing. 

Throughout her library career she’s been an information desk clerk, a readers’ advisor, a reference librarian, an emerging technologies maven, a team leader, a number-cruncher, a collection developer, a meeting-attender, a book reviewer, and a presentation-giver.  In the future, she would like to write more for the profession, but isn’t quite sure if the profession is ready for what she has to say.  Her current dream job is “Library Imagination Architect,” which would entail having her own office and the freedom to dream up crazy things and implement them, with very few restrictions.

When Leigh Anne is not pondering library science, she’s probably reading one of the five million books checked out on her library card, gaming, writing poetry, making art, or  rocking out to some ridiculous YouTube video.   She has also just acquired a hula hoop (heaven help us all).  You may contact her to praise, censure, commiserate, or persuade at vrabell at carnegielibrary dot org .