Andromeda Yelton, 2016 Candidate for LITA Vice-President/President-Elect

 Photo of Andromeda Yelton by Molly Tomlinson, photoclave.comStatement

My themes for LITA are identity, investment, and inclusion.

*Identity* means articulating clearly whom we serve; aligning our programs and services with their needs; and communicating this to current and prospective members.

*Investment* means both financial stability and professional development: investing in our people through high-quality education, conference programming, and leadership development opportunities.

*Inclusion* means reaching out to a broad range of library technologists, ensuring diversity in our leadership, and holding ourselves to high standards of hospitality.

Current Position

Owner/consultant, Small Beautiful Useful, LLC, Somerville, MA

Previous Positions

Member of founding team, Unglue.it, 2011-2013
Latin teacher, The Fessenden School, 2003-2008

Degrees and Certificates

Simmons College, MSLIS
Tufts University, MA, Classics
Harvey Mudd College, BS, Math

Division Affiliations

ASCLA, LITA

Were you an Emerging Leader?

Yes

Offices Held in the ALA/APA, State, & Regional Library Associations, and Other Associations

LITA Director-at-Large, 2013-2016
LITA Library Code Year Interest Group, Founder & Chair, 2012-2013
LITA National Forum Planning Committee, 2012-2013
LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award Committee, 2011-2012
Ada Initiative, Advisory board member, 2014-2015

Honors and Awards

Library Journal Mover & Shaker, 2013
ALA Emerging Leader, 2011
LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award, 2010

Major Accomplishments

Keynotes and other national speaking engagement including a Code4Lib national conference keynote (Portland, 2015)
Technology workshop teaching, including invited co-teaching of the Mozilla Foundation's first Software Carpentry workshop for librarians (Toronto, 2014)
Writing of numerous articles and ALA TechSource Library Technology Reports

Publications

Coding for Librarians: Learning by Example. Library Technology Reports (ALA TechSource), Volume 51, Number 3, April 2015
Librarians' Assessments of Automation Systems: Survey Results, 2007-2010. Library Technology Reports (ALA TechSource), Volume 47, Number 4, May/June 2011.
“A Simple Scheme for Book Classification Using Wikipedia.” Information Technology and Libraries, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2011.

Links to Further Information

http://andromedayelton.com
https://twitter.com/thatandromeda
https://github.com/thatandromeda

Member of ALA since

2009