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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
I worked as an assistant manager in a food service for about seven years in the Reno, NV area while in college at the University of Nevada, Reno. Worked three jobs at one point while getting a MA at the University of Denver. Was an indexer/abstractor at Information Access Company in Belmont, CA for almost two years. Worked as an Urban Corps Intern at the Minneapolis Public Library some of my 2nd year of law school. Worked as a Student Supervisor of a few law students while helping prisoners through Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners. From mid 2nd year of Law School was working at the U of MN Law Library in reference as well as cataloging of all the files on WESTLAW for a national project. Did most of this my WESTLAW stuff my 3rd year of law school up to graduating. And then after was doing more cataloging of other materials and limited reference.
Did a lot of care taker work after. Like helping an Uncle get ready to go to a nursing home in Itasca, IL.
The stuff for the Marquis Who's Who volumes is for attempting to create an international discussion of the needs of survivors/victims through libraries which I believe I did after sending out a very large number of snail mail in 1990s, e-mails in early to mid 2000s, extensive use of Findlaw from 2002 through 2005 or so, and Facebook messages last seven years or so. That is a labor of love and not something I got paid for. Kind of something I paid for doing in many ways.
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I did have some trouble paying the student loan for my MA in Librarianship which I got in May of 1984 at the rather expensive University of Denver. The State of Nevada's chapter of WICHE had given me a Stipend Grant that I needed to work a certain period of time in Nevada after graduating. Nevada did not have a professional librarianship program so you could get a grant that paid a lot of the money needed for an advanced degree at a school acceptable to WICHE.
I had gone to law school in Minnesota in 1986 after working in the Stanford area of the SF Bay Area from 1984 to 1986.
Since I had been doing all this work trying to help survivors/victims of crimes access practical materials in libraries all over the world I had sent the Nevada WICHE office a request that they accept all of this as work that affected people in Nevada. I sent them copies of many things and they approved my request in September of 2000 or so. I try to leave a large paper trail and document stuff. What I would do is write the victim/witness assistance providers in each state in the US to see what they would like to see in libraries for survivors/victims of crimes and then share these documents with librarians, scholars, activists, journalists, writers, celebrities, etc.
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