Langsdale Link
Contents:
Meet Our New Staff
Catherine Johnson,
reference librarian
Birthday: March 1
Home: Racine, WI originally – but now Federal Hill
My First Job: Working in a tennis club – scheduling lessons and court times - sometimes teaching tennis lessons!
Hobbies: Cycling, walking around the city, trying to play the banjo, hiking, listening to music (especially live), trying new things…
Favorite Book: The Solitaire Mystery (Jostein Gaarder)
Favorite Authors: Jostein Gaarder, Barbara Kingsolver
Favorite Movies: Amelie, Milo and Otis, The Big Lebowski, Seven, Raising Arizona
Favorite TV Shows: The Simpsons, Flight of the Conchords, Law & Order, Lost (although I’m watching them on DVD so I’m behind – don’t tell me what happens!), Sopranos, Six Feet Under
Favorite Music: Talking Heads, Son Volt, Neil Young, Drive-By Truckers, Uncle Tupelo, Loretta Lynn, Lucinda Williams, Sam Cooke, Portishead, Fruit Bats,
most bluegrass, Pearl Jam, Merle Haggard… ah, the list goes on and on…
Favorite web-sites: Pandora.com, wired.com, vegweb.org, npr.org, Google, YouTube
Favorite Foods: Almost anything vegetarian – but especially green beans, peanut butter, pickles, (soy)chicken
What I Like Best About Baltimore: That it’s a new city to explore!
What I Like Best About UB: Everyone I have met has been so kind and so helpful. I think this will be a great experience and I’m excited to be part of the “UB Community”
I Would Like to Ask Fellow Langsdale Employees: What is your favorite “Baltimore” thing to do?
Erin Toepfner,
Library assistant
Birthday: Feb. 27
Home: Baltimore, Fells Point
My First Job: Library assistant at Loyola Notre Dame Library
Hobbies: Reading, jewelry making, figure drawing, writing, camping, and biking.
Favorite Books: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skin by Emma Donoghue, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and The Sillmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Favorite Authors: David Sedaris, J.R.R. Tolkien, Nora Roberts, Emily Bronte, J.K. Rowling and V.C. Andrews
Favorite Movies: Sin City, The Little Mermaid, Stranger than Fiction, The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Favorite TV Shows: The Cosby Show, Desperate Housewives, Antiques Roadshow
Favorite Website: www.livejournal.com
Favorite Foods: French fries, french toast, mangos
Favorite Quote: "Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."--Martin Luther King Jr.
What I Like Best About
What I Like Best About UB: The diversity and the desire to learn exhibited by both employees and students.
Rachel Heckert, student assistant
Birthdate: June 26
Home: NW Baltimore
My First Job: Clerk in a bookstore (naturally)
Hobbies: Music (listening, play flute), bird-watching, gardening, social history, China, my bunny, hanging out with friends
Favorite Books: You’re kidding. The list wouldn’t fit.
Favorite Authors: Orwell, Hsu, Kornbluth, Rowling, Hillerman and so on
Favorite Movies: Z, Citizen Kane
Favorite TV Shows: Original Star Trek
Favorite Web-sites: Wikipedia, Gutenberg, meerkats.net, Cornell bird lab
Favorite Food: Haagen Daas Ice Cream
Favorite Quote: “There is nothing so practical as a good theory.” Kurt Lewin, social psychologist
What I Like Best About Baltimore: Everyone is so friendly
What I Like Best About UB: The university actually cares about its students
I Would Like to Ask Fellow Langsdale Employees: What do you like most about working in a library?
Dorothy Griggs, student assistant
Birthdate: June 29
Home: West Baltimore County
My First Job: An Instructor of English and public speaking at a community college
Hobbies: Walking, singing, viola
Favorite Books: To Kill a Mockingbird, and On Knowing by Jerome Bruner
Favorite Authors: John Paul Lederach, William F. Buckley, and Laura Lippman
Favorite Movies: Man for All Seasons, Neverwas, The Holiday
Favorite TV Shows: Mystery Theatre
Favorite Foods: Mango, cheeseburgers & key lime pie
What I Like Best About Baltimore: Location & waterfront access
What I Like Best About UB: The people
Upcoming presentation: (along with with
Louise Phipps Senft) “Evaluating Conflict Transformation Training: A Research Study of How Caregivers and Hospice Workers Improve Patient and Family Relationships after Training.” To be presented at the Association for Conflict Resolution National Convention in October.