User:JJU

I'm Justin Unrau, a writer/gamer/librarianaut. That last word refers to being a travelling book person. While I enjoy and am comfortable with the media of the twenty-first century, but deep in my soul I'm a book lover.

I'm also, and more to the point here, perhaps, an MLIS student at UBC's School of Library Archival and Information Studies. I'm on a Co-Op term with Prosentient Systems in Sydney, Australia until December 2011, when I'll return to finish my degree before 2012 is done.

I've worked in public libraries, where I did storytimes for preschoolers, helped people research obscure northern Manitoban poets and got in trouble for blogging about it. Two out of three of those were fun.

Coursework

• Co-Op Portfolio
• SLAIS Coursework
• Librarianautica - My social media focused library blog (created for LIBR559m in summer 2011).

Webpresences

• librarianaut.com - My blog about books, school and library issues.
• @jjackunrau - My Twitter account.
• LinkedIn Profile - For "professional purposes."

Student Activities

• ASIS&T - I'm the Communications Officer for the UBC student branch of the American Society of Information Science & Technology
• Librarians Without Borders - I'm the co-secretary for the UBC student branch of Librarians Without Borders
• Graduate Student Children’s Literature Conference 2012 - I'm helping with the social media aspects of a student-run Children's Literature conference happening at UBC in 2012.