{"id":2,"date":"2022-05-17T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.odu.edu\/odupresentationtemplate\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-05-31T22:35:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T22:35:28","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/stephthomas\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.&#8221; <\/p><cite>&#8211;Bertrand Russell<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Love.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Each day, I&#8217;m motivated almost exclusively by love. The love I have for the work I have done during my time as an elementary school registrar has led me to realize that I am meant to be within the walls of a school library.&nbsp; The joy that our students find among the bookshelves and in their imaginations has caught me.&nbsp; That love is too much to ignore and I have set my sites on nurturing that same love for knowledge within our youngest students.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently a pursuing a Masters of Library and Information Studies at Old Dominion University.&nbsp; I work for one of Prince William County Schools&#8217; finest elementary schools and am inspired daily by my own two elementary-aged daughters and my husband.&nbsp; I am thrilled to be embarking on this journey so I can continue the vital work of school librarians in shaping the way our future community members learn, imagine and share their knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Within these pages, you will find examples of work that I have completed during the MLIS program, a little more about me, and of course, a blog with highlights from my journey and some of my accomplishments.&nbsp; My resume and philosophy, while currently a work in progress, will also be available before the end of my course, the culmination of which will be the entire portfolio you see here.&nbsp; It is my hope that you will clearly see my progress from student to school librarian and be able to feel how much I love what I do.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Crazzolara, T. (2019). <em>A book love heart read library Valentine&#8217;s day<\/em>. [photograph]. Pixabay. Retrieved 5\/31\/2022 from https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/a-book-love-heart-read-library-4000080\/. (CCZero).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.&#8221; &#8211;Bertrand Russell Love.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/stephthomas\/\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About me<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":24060,"featured_media":390,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/stephthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/stephthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/stephthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/stephthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/stephthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/stephthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/stephthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/stephthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/stephthomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}