{"id":325,"date":"2012-02-04T23:49:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T03:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/digital-storytelling-2012\/?p=325"},"modified":"2012-02-07T17:56:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T21:56:49","slug":"carols-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/digital-storytelling-2012\/carols-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol’s Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Carol\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My name is Carol. My parents named me after my godparent’s only son, Carroll who died while serving in the United States Navy.\u00a0 My friends call me Maliaka.\u00a0 The short story on how that came to be is that I assumed the name while taking a Swahili language course in high school.\u00a0 Swahili is a Bantu language spoken in several countries in East Africa such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda.\u00a0 Maliaka comes from the Swahili name Malaika which means “angel”. At the time my friends thought the name would be\u00a0agood choice.<\/p>\n

I have the distinct pleasure of being the first born of four children.\u00a0 I am a native New Yorker who grew up in a suburb of New York City. I absolutely felt that I was in the right place at the right time and can’t imagine growing up anywhere else.<\/p>\n

I’m a school media specialist in the Poughkeepsie City School District where I work in two elementary schools serving a K-5 student population.\u00a0 As a teenager, my first job was a library aide in the middle school I attended.<\/p>\n

During my career I have enjoyed many rewarding experiences in academic, corporate, public, and research libraries.\u00a0 Some of the places I worked included M.I.T. Historical Collections (Cambridge, MA), Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA), and the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) where I held numerous positions involving a wide range of duties and responsibilities.\u00a0 I probably could share a story or two about each place I worked, however, I’ll save that for another time.<\/p>\n

Alright, I have a confession to make. I love stories just as much as I love libraries.<\/p>\n

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