Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West

Once proclaimed the “hippest ex-librarian on the Web” by Wired, Jessamyn West is a librarian and technologist who concentrates on studying the digital divide and solving technology problems for schools and libraries. She lives in rural Vermont and has given presentations in the United States, Canada, and Australia on the intersection of libraries, technology, and politics.

She is the author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide and the editor of Digital Versus Non-Digital Reference: Ask a Librarian Online and Offline; her blog, Librarian.Net, has been “putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999”.

She tweets at @jessamyn.