about
Chrystie Hill is a librarian, writer, and community builder. After a short stint at the Seattle Public Library, she started It Girl Consulting, a small venture that helps libraries use online tools to build communities online. In 2003 Chrystie joined WebJunction where she serves as the Director of Community Services. Chrystie is a frequent presenter at library meetings and conferences, and her articles have appeared in JASIST, Library Journal, American Libraries, and RUSQ. In 2007, Chrystie was nominated as a Library Journal Mover and Shaker and Inside, Outside, and Online: building your library community was published by ALA Editions in 2009. Chrystie’s undergraduate degree is in Biology and Psychology, she holds a Master of Arts in History from Sarah Lawrence College, and her MLIS is from the University of Washington, Seattle, where she lives with her desk and a laptop. You can follow her blog at http://librariesbuildcommunities.org.
If you’re looking for my ‘authorized’ photo and bio, feel free to copy/paste the above image and text, or link through to flickr to download alternate image sizes.
Everything published on “Libraries Build Communities” is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Thanks in advance for attributing anything from this work to the original authors, doing so for non-commercial purposes only, and most importantly, sharing alike.
