Library Staff Highlight: Heather Moss

Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:24:27 -0400
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Name: Heather Moss
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Alma Mater: University of Baltimore

1. Where do you work in the library and how long have you worked there?
I work as a copy-cataloger in technical services. I’ve been at AOK since July 2002, so almost 12 years.

2. What would you like the campus community to know about your job?
I like having a low-key, behind-the-scenes job and seeing all the new books.

3. What’s your favorite aspect of working at UMBC?
It’s a tie between my friend Chrisie Cowden (who works in Circulation) and the Canada geese that hang out on campus.

4. Do you have a favorite project, event, or memory from your time working in the library?
I gave a presentation at the Internet Librarian conference in Monterey, California in 2007. That was an amazing experience.

5. If you were a UMBC student, what library services would you use/appreciate the most?
The Leisure Reading collection is a lot of fun.

6. If you had to survive on a desert island with only one book, movie, or TV show, what would it be and why?
Lolita, because I’ve read it 15 times and never get tired of Nabokov’s word play and cleverness.

7. A wizard has turned you into your favorite animal. What are you?
That’s a tough one, because I have a lot of favorite animals. Sharks are my very favorite, but I think I’d rather be a cat, because sharks don’t sleep and cats sleep perpetually.

8. Anything else you’d like to add?
UMBC undergrads never fail to impress me with their dedication to academics. It gives me a lot of joy to see them studying together in the library’s RLC, even on a Friday afternoon!

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