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I completed my undergraduate degree in English Literature at FSU in 2010, returning to Tallahassee from Valdosta State University when the economy collapsed in 2009. Although I worked part time at Special Collections both at Valdosta State and at FSU, I needed secure, full time work. Fortunately, a paraprofessional opportunity opened up in the media center of a public high school here in Tallahassee, where I have been since the 2013-2014 school year. While I have always had a passion for books and libraries, my time as a media assistant has helped me focus my career goals on school libraries. Now I am in my second year of the MSI program and also earning a graduate certificate in School Librarian Leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Full time work along with grad school certainly keeps me busy, but I do have some other interests in my \u201cspare\u201d time. I enjoy watching Major League Baseball (Go Rays!<\/a>) and try to attend at least one game in person each season. I also like to travel, especially to colder more urban climates such as Chicago and NYC, and I love attending concerts and live theatre performances. I’m an active member of The Episcopal Church<\/a> (my local church was founded in the late 1820s) and a happy dog mom to my lab mix Sam who\u2019s been with me since August of 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I applied for my graduate program, my school district was still recovering from the pandemic. The library was closed; students could see what print and digital resources were available, but they did not have the guidance of a librarian to help them. As we have opened back up and more and more digital resources are available, it seems even more important to have a school librarian who can support both students and teachers in finding and using digital media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One aspect of this class that interests me is learning more about copyleft and fair use media. Not only will this help me enhance my own media projects, but I will be better prepared to help future students use open source media in their own creative aspirations. I also hope to gain the skills to solve technology challenges I may have with producing and using digital media, and be able to provide technical support for students and my colleagues in my future role as a school media specialist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi everyone! My name is Carole (\u201cwith an E!\u201d) Lemley. I am a Tallahassee native, born to a high school English teacher two days before Christmas. You could say that my love of books and learning started before I did....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student","tag-intros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4296,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions\/4296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pups2020_blogpost2.jpg\")