What is a library cataloger?
You want to be able to find
books, right? My job, among other things, is to make sure that books have the
right call numbers and descriptions. I also work with other staff members to
make sure that our books are stored under the right conditions and that they
are properly repaired. I supervise inter-library loans, and I work with
students on major projects, like organizing the books and rare materials in
the Trans-Appalachian collection on the library's top floor.
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Greene County
is my home!
That's right! I grew up
right here in Waynesburg. My mother, as a matter of fact, still runs Thompson's
Christian Bookstore, right next to the post office. After I graduated from
high school here, I went to college in Illinois at Wheaton College. That was the beginning of a twenty nine year
sojourn in the gray urban landscape of Chicago. I earned two master's degrees at the University of Chicago--in New Testament studies and in library science--and worked at
several theological libraries there.
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Interesting things happen in libraries--
Like falling in love!
That's what happened to me in 1997. Although a confirmed bachelor in my
mid-forties, I fell in love with the lovely Nancy Schmickle,
who was also working in the library at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. It's an amusing story about how this fine woman
stole my heart, and maybe I'll post it here sometime. Anyways, we were married in November 1998. Our daughter was born in 2001.
When she was just seven months old,
we took her with us on a very important trip. Nancy and I flew to Guatemala City to complete the adoption of our two sons, who were then ages four and eight. We had been working on adopting them for about
fifteen months, and we were thrrilled to finally
meet them at the Hogar Rafael Ayau,
the orphanage where they were living. On April 20, 2002, we arrived at our home in Waynesburg with these
two boys. They are adapting well to American life.
Nancy works little miracles every day of her life, as she homeschools our three precious children. s
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Nancy and I enjoy living
in Waynesburg . . . .
. . . after two years
of Chicago life. We can finally have a garden of our
own.
Our house at in Waynesburg is protected by our affectionate
Shetland sheepdog "Star." We are members of St. Mary's Carpatho-Russian
Orthodox Church in Morgantown, West
Virginia.
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