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Joseph N. Anderson

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Logan Library Assistant Director & Adult Nonfiction Librarian
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I’m a humanist librarian advocating for people-centred libraries. Such libraries value information and literacy funded by the people for the people, life-long education, communication and dialogue, kindness, community, diversity, historical perspective and progressive thinking, egalitarianism and democracy, honesty and accountability, privacy, health, ecological concern, and conclusions/decisions/policies/practices based on evidence and empathy.

I have worked in public libraries for 20 years, with 14 as a professional librarian. My specialities include maintaining adult non-fiction collections (selection and deselection for the Dewey classes, biography, reference, local history, and educational audio/video), customer service, research, working with Friends groups, and defending intellectual freedom. I'm an active member of the Utah Library Association and the Cache Valley Library Association, which I helped establish more than a decade ago.

I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, when the atmospheric CO² level was 340 ppm (1980). I now live and work in Cache Valley, a traditional homeland of the Northwestern Shoshone people (nwbshoshone.com), when the CO² is at 416 ppm. I'm happily married to Amy, Logan High School’s counselling department chair and Hope Squad teacher, and we have four daughters, one son, and one son-in-law. A lifelong Anglophile, I enjoy reading The Guardian, the work of Thomas Hardy, and medieval English history; listening to Britpop, the BBC World Service, and the work of Ralph Vaughan Williams; watching Sky News, the work of Laurence Olivier, and adaptations of Brit lit; supporting Dorchester Town FC, the Three Lions, and the Lionesses; and observing Anglican worship, Westminster politics, and UK-Ireland relations.

📸: Taken by my colleague, Morgan Stoker Taylor, at our library in 2023

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Education:
  • Master of Science in Library Science, Rural & Small Libraries, Clarion University of Pennsylvania (2009)
  • Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude in History, British & Commonwealth Studies, Latin, Utah State University (2007)
  • Associate of Science in General Studies, Salt Lake Community College (2004)
  • GED (2001)
  • Dropout, Copper Hills High School (1999)

Employment:
  • Logan Library Assistant Director & Adult Nonfiction Librarian (2017-Present), Head of Adult Nonfiction & Reference Services (2012-2017), Adult Nonfiction & Reference Librarian (2009-2012), Associate Librarian for Interlibrary Loan (2008-2009), Technical Assistant (2008)
  • Utah State University Department of History Undergraduate Teaching Fellow (2006)
  • Bridgerland Applied Technology College Bookstore Clerk (2005-2008)
  • Barnes & Noble Shelver (2001-2002)
  • Salt Lake County Library System Customer Service Specialist (2001-2004), Shelver (1999-2001)
  • Seagull Book & Tape Clerk (1997)

Professional Service:
  • Friends of Merrill-Cazier Library President (2018-2020), Trustee (2016-2020), member (2014-Present)
  • Friends of the Logan Library Board of Directors ex officio (2018-Present), Bylaws Review Committee member (2016), founding member (2013-Present)
  • Cache Valley Library Association Webmaster (2015-2017, 2021-Present), Secretary (2018), Advocacy Committee Chair (2016-2017), Advocacy Committee member (2016-2018), Past President (2015), President (2014), Inaugural Vice President (2013), founding member (2012-Present)
  • Utah State Library LSTA Grants Reviewer (2016), Utah’s Online Library Steering Committee Member (2010-2015)
  • Utah Library Association Rural & Small Libraries Committee member (2015-18), Historian (2014-16), Intellectual Freedom Committee Vice-Chair (2011-13), Intellectual Freedom Committee member (2009-13), member (2009-Present)
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