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My name is Liberty Smith. I hold a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, San Diego and have recently completed a Masters of Library and Information Science at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. For more about my academic and professional life, please see my CV.

I live in Santa Cruz, CA in a beautiful little apartment with Graycie the kitten and the memory of my beloved Little Kitty. I am the Program Manager for the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse which provides resources, training, and technical assistance to the national service-learning community.

I have created this website and have transitioned from a traditional academic career to a career in non-profit information management as ways to engage more directly and immediately with the intellectual and human questions of today than is traditionally possible for an academic. While I always have and always will love supporting others in learning in a range of areas (from navigating the newest techno-tool for academics; to developing the research strategies necessary to hunt down just the right bit of archane information needed for an essay; to learning to read any text with generous attention, whether a film, a website, a Judith Butler essay, or a Gertrude Stein poem), after the slow pace of academic research, I am delighted daily by the opportuntity librarianship provides to do so with absolute immediacy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Created by Liberty Smith. Last updated: November 25, 2006.

The work of an intellectual is not to shape others' political will; it is, through the analyses that he carries out in his own field, to question over and over again what is postulated as self-evident, to disturb people's mental habits, the way they do and think things. -- Michel Foucault