Hi. My name is Dani and I’m a diva with the research skills of a librarian, the preservation skills of an archivist, the organizational skills of a mother and the domestic skills of a Stepford wife…
I am also an Archivist and Reference Librarian atMisericordia University. Misericordia University is a small, private Catholic university nestled in the heart of Dallas, Pennsylvania. Misericordia is a beautiful university with warm, caring faculty and staff who encourage the students to reach beyond their potential through service to the community, the university and themselves.
I'm Cristina Canales, I'm from Barcelona (Spain) and I'am librarian.
I'm 33 years old, I studied a degree in Librarianship (3 years) and afterwards two years more of study in Information Science. I've worked in different libraries at the Barcelona University, I've catalogued ancient books for a year at the National Library of Catalonia, amb finally, at the age of 23, I started to work in television, in TV3, the Catalonian television. It's not a very big one, but it is one of the most reputated channels in Spain, specially because of its News and its Historic Documentaries. I've been working for 5 years in a magazine, wich includes interviews with actors and actresses, singers, politicians, writers or whoever is in the news now. My work is to prepare biographies and get archive images from all these people in order to prepare the interviews. There is also commentaries on daily news, so we work often against the clock, as the magazine is a live one!!!
It's not the job I've had imagined in high school when I chose to become a librarian, but I think it's even better! Not only it's interesting, as I thought it would be to work at my neighbourhood library, but it's also exciting and some kind of glamourous, as I've had had the chance to meet famous people.
In addition to my habitual job, last year I began to work also some weekends at the Moto GP World Championship. I've travelled for a year all over the world, from Asia (China, Japan amb Malaysia), to Australia and North America (Laguna Seca, CA, and Indianapolis), and all around Europe. I've been dealing there with the images captured by the cameras during the races, indexing them and after retrieving it for editors. This have been a really incredible experience wich I hope I could repeat this year. It's also exhausting, but it really worths it!
So you see, I hope that knowing that being a librarian does'nt mean to work necessarily in a library, will encourage more young people to join us!
I'm Cristina Canales, I'm from Barcelona (Spain) and I'am librarian. 
