{"id":2,"date":"2021-08-31T01:22:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.odu.edu\/odupresentationtemplate\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-11-20T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T16:49:05","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"395\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-469\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/11\/256px-Laura_Theresa_Alma-Tadema_-_World_of_dreams_1876.jpg\" style=\"object-position:34% 17%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"34% 17%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/11\/256px-Laura_Theresa_Alma-Tadema_-_World_of_dreams_1876.jpg 256w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/11\/256px-Laura_Theresa_Alma-Tadema_-_World_of_dreams_1876-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">About Me<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Alma-Tadema, L. T. (1876). <em>World of d<\/em>reams [Painting]. Private collection. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Laura_Theresa_Alma-Tadema_-World_of_dreams(1876).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Laura_Theresa_Alma-Tadema_-<em>World_of_dreams<\/em>(1876).jpg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/09\/ErinV2021-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-339\" width=\"170\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/09\/ErinV2021-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/09\/ErinV2021-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/09\/ErinV2021-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/09\/ErinV2021-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/09\/ErinV2021-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/09\/ErinV2021-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/09\/ErinV2021-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My dad would often tell me: &#8220;You don&#8217;t need to know everything, you just need to know where to find it.&#8221; That may be where the seed of being a librarian took root.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or maybe it was from the many, many times my mother and I rode the #72 bus to the Central Library in downtown Seattle when I had a report due for school. The one-floor Greenlake Branch would simply not do.&nbsp; I may have been the only 5th grader to have a bibliography citing microfiche copies of newspapers in my report on totem poles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those early years of appreciating graceful ways to store and access information, as well as a love of reading, brought me to ODU to pursue a Masters in Libary and Information Studies. This page will track my progress as I learn something new. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large\"><p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\">You don&#8217;t need to know everything, you just need to know where to find it.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><cite><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\">-Brian Bergin, my dad (who just may have taken it from someone, and made it his own)<\/span><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/09\/640px-Seattle_MAN_articulated_bus_1462_in_1984_on_UW_campus-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-336\" width=\"269\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/09\/640px-Seattle_MAN_articulated_bus_1462_in_1984_on_UW_campus-edited.jpg 393w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25477\/2021\/09\/640px-Seattle_MAN_articulated_bus_1462_in_1984_on_UW_campus-edited-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Seattle Metro buses were some of my first transports to libraries. <\/strong><br><sub>Morgan, S. (1984). Seattle MAN articulated bus 1462 in 1984 on UW campus. CC BY-SA 3.0, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=35039214\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=35039214<\/a><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alma-Tadema, L. T. (1876). World of dreams [Painting]. Private collection. https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Laura_Theresa_Alma-Tadema_-World_of_dreams(1876).jpg My dad would often tell me: &#8220;You don&#8217;t need to know everything, you just need to know where to find it.&#8221; That may be where the seed of being a librarian took root.&nbsp; Or maybe it was from the many, many times my mother&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/about-me\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":21525,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-evoor001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}