This weekend I received an email from a representative of Salem Press, a well known book publisher in library circles. I was informed that I had been nominated more than once for their library blog awards.

This really is surprising. I didn’t even know there was such an award, and I certainly didn’t expect to be nominated for it! Another reason for my surprise at being nominated is that I haven’t blogged about library-specific topics in a long time. This is due to a number of factors, but is mainly because my career took a different turn about a year and a half ago. I’m now focusing on enterprise taxonomy and user experience as part of a large corporate IT function. My background as a librarian is valuable, particularly my history of work in library cataloging. In spite of this, often I seem to stick out like a sore thumb as I am surrounded by “pure” IT folks.

It’s nice to be nominated for an award, so thank you to whomever nominated me!