About Kristen Shuyler

I work as a librarian at Seattle University. My responsibilities include coordinating the library's chat reference service, serving as the liaison to seven science and engineering departments, and doing lots of other things.

I've also been an adjunct professor, entrepreneur, geographer, educational technology researcher, web designer, and information architect.

My current professional interests include:

• service design for university libraries
• content analysis, narrative analysis, ethnography, and other qualitative research methods for understanding library users' needs
• extending and supporting library collections and services with emerging technologies
• user experience design for libraries
• unconferences

If you're interested in similar stuff, let me know!

Of course, identity is not just about work - I'm also a doting dog owner, a fair-weather recumbent bike commuter, a novice but enthusiastic urban farmer, and one of the folks who have planned and run InfoCamp since 2007, among other things.

My husband, Aaron, our dog, Robot, and I make our home in Beacon Hill, a wonderful neighborhood in south Seattle.

About this site

A personal web page may seem a bit quaint in the current landscape of blogs and social websites, but I've had one since 1995, and I'm not going to give it up yet.

I maintain it mostly for myself -- as a place to corral my various interests, links and projects, and as a way to practice my web design skills. Pico in SSH is my tool of choice for writing the HTML and CSS.

Previous hosts for this site: gladstone.uoregon.edu, thanatos.uoregon.edu, yetiarts.com, staff.washington.edu, and students.washington.edu

The photos on the main page are a few of my favorite photos of Seattle, taken between 1999 and 2009.