Smell Test: A Collaborative Blog: An EFH Production
We are three librarians/library science students from the University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. This blog is a chronicle for us to share our research within a multifacted problem in a multipartner/multidisciplinary fashion, if that is enough multi’s for the reader.
Our names are, in Alphabetical order, Katherine Eastman, Makiba Foster and Neal Hughes. Gee, that is alphabetical in both first and last name order! This is our first post, and it isn’t a joint one yet, since someone has to obviously post first. Feel free to edit, any member of EFH Productions..
My name is Neal McCoy Hughes (OK, the TV show the Real McCoys began after I was born, so it isn’t a funny TV-show derived name: my uncle’s middle name is Neal and my father’s middle name was McCoy. I pronounce it “Em.” I live outside of Florence, Alabama in the small town of Lexington, and we do wear shoes here and I do not eat possum…I’m more a sushi kinda guy. I went to Creighton University for two years in Omaha, Nebraska and then completed my BA in History at the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama. I then went to the University of Alabama Graduate School where I have completed all the requirements for my MA in History and completed my MLIS at the SLIS there. I worked for 2 years after my MLIS at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama and was assistant circulation librarian there, but I was really a reference librarian who also was the ILL lending librarian as well as starting up the E-reserve system at that school. This is my first “real” article in the profession, and I find the topic to be utterly fascinating on a socio-political level, with undertones of censorship contained within the topic. I hope to contribute my small experience as an editor an historian to this joint project, and more than that, to see if I can’t contribute a bit to the profession and its greater understanding of our roles as professional librarians in providing service to those whom we differentiate as “homeless.”
