About
We’re two early-to-mid-career librarians exploring what academic librarianship looks like in the day-to-day, across different types of institutions and roles. We invite other librarians for friendly and informal conversations about the practicalities, responsibilities, challenges, joys, and realities of academic librarianship as a job and as a career.
Nothing is off the table.
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Hannah Cabullo
(she/her)
I am the Engineering Librarian at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and somehow I'm already approaching a decade in librarianship. I grew up in suburban Minnesota, went to college at the University of Minnesota Morris where I majored in environmental studies and English, and got my MLIS directly afterward at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During grad school, I worked part-time doing metadata and reference for the U.S. Geological Survey, and then moved out to New Hampshire for my first full-time library job. I spent about 8 years at Saint Anselm College's Geisel Library, first as Reference & Instruction Librarian, and then as Head of Reference & Instructional Services. Then in 2023, I moved back to Minnesota, beginning my current job here at UMN.
When not librarianing, I enjoy baking, playing board games, knitting, reading, and getting outside with my husband and toddler. And it's great when some of these things can overlap with work life too.
Stephanie Sparrow
(she/her and they/them)
I work as an Agriculture and Social science liaison librarian at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, I went to undergrad at the College of Wooster where I studied international relations. I got my MLIS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I also worked at U.S. Geological Survey (like Hannah) on a data migration project, did cataloguing for digital collections at Internet Scout, and was a processing assistant at the University of Wisconsin University Archives. After completing grad studies in 2021, I was a content ingest developer at ProQuest before moving to Minneapolis in 2023 to work at UMN.
In life, I enjoy coffee, reading, making bread, making things with my hands, playing video games, connecting with nature, and Bravo! reality shows.
Credits
This work is made possible by means of our employment at the University of Minnesota.
Music is by Blue Dot Sessions, "Town Market" and "Dirtbike Lovers," used under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Tracks are shortened and faded to fit our intro and outro.
Our artwork was designed by Dillon Martin.