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SI SpotlightAngela Napili (MSI '00)
"At SI you can learn how to find, use, evaluate, and design information resources to meet clients' needs. You'll have access to cutting-edge technology and extensive research resources. Your colleagues and teachers will have expertise in librarianship, marketing and consulting, computer science, art and design, social work, and many other fields. But what we all have in common is a commitment to helping people get what they need -- whether it's the perfect statistic for someone preparing for a debate, or a usable Web browser for people with visual impairments."
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Before SI: Earned a BS in math and BA in philosophy from Stanford; then went into the U-M Ph.D. program in philosophy as a National Science Foundation Fellow; won the department's Stevenson Prize for excellence in the graduate program. Of her move to SI, she says, "I decided to become a reference librarian because I want to help people find information, because I love the research process, and because reference librarians get to explore many different subjects through their work."
At SI: Worked the reference desks of the University's graduate and undergraduate libraries and as a reference administrator and librarian for the Internet Public Library.
Led a team of graduate students working on the Community Connector Web site, a resource for organizations, funders, and activists committed to using technology to improve their communities. She also tested adaptive Web browsing software for the Washtenaw County Library for the Blind and the Ann Arbor District Library, where she conducted usability tests with people with visual impairments and created a prototype training program to help visually impaired people learn to use the Internet. And she managed to make several outreach and education trips to the Queens Borough Public Library in New York to learn more about innovative programs that institution has put in place and to analyze and recommend changes in the library's Adult Summer Reading Program. You can read some of her writings about her experience at the QBPL at si.umich.edu/library-cultures/public.
After SI: Signed on with the world's largest library, taking a position with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, a job that grew out of a summer internship she had completed during her tenure at SI.
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