1. Introduce yourself (name & position).
Hi, I’m Heather
Buckwalter and I am the Serials/Acquisitions Librarian at Creighton University
Law Library. I joined the staff at Creighton Law Library in 1996. Although I
have been in this position for over 20 years my duties and responsibilities
have changed with the evolution of libraries. I have survived two building
renovations and two ILS migrations.
2. Does your job title actually describe what you do? Why/why not?
Yes and No. I do manage
serials and acquisitions for the law library but I am also responsible for
electronic resource management, government documents, collection development,
the Law School’s Archives, and I am the Law Library’s liaison to the
University’s Systems Librarian. I also work at the Reference Desk 5-10 hours a
week.
3. What are you reading right now?
Currently I am reading American Assassin by Vince Flynn. I love
thrillers and mysteries and after seeing the movie I wanted to see how well
they did adapting the book.
4. If you could work in any library (either a type of library or a
specific one), what would it be? Why?
I started out in graduate
school to concentrate in Law Librarianship and was lucky enough to work at the
Law Library as a grad student. I did toy with the idea of going into
preservation/conservation but it seemed I was destined for Law Libraries. I am
responsible for the repair work and binding in my library so at least I do a
little conservation.
5. You suddenly have a free day at work, what project would you
work on?
Wow. This is actually a
tough question since it doesn’t happen. I think if I had a free day I would
work on data cleanup. With our migration to a new ILS there is lots of data
that did not migrate very well. I recently went to a local conference where
colleagues spoke about using regular expressions and OpenRefine to clean up
data and was intrigued.
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