About

That scruffy gentleman to the left is Jason Griffey, the Head of Library Information Technology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He’s busy with lots of things these days:

Library Blogging, by Jason Griffey and Karen A Coombs, is a book from Linworth Press. It was released in the Summer of 2008, and is available for order now at Amazon and other fine retailers.

Jason writes online in a few places. His primary residence is Pattern Recognition, his personal and professional blog, which has been active since 2003. He is an administrator and author for LITABlog, and is a columnist for the ALA TechSource blog.

He is the current co-chair of the LITA Interest Group BIGWIG, and is one of the organizers of the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase. He is also the Chair for the LITA Program Planning Committee.

At his place of work, he is working hard on a new building project…a brand new $48 million dollar academic library for the UTC campus. We’re in the planning stages, and should break ground in just about a year. Jason put together a wiki for the project, and the entire process is being done as transparently as possible.

Jason was named one of Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers for 2009. At Computers in Libraries and Internet Librarian, he has been one of the faculty for the Academic Library 2.0 preconference.

He also feels very funny writing in the third person, but thought it would be interesting anyway. He spends his free time reading, playing games, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.

You can find Jason online nearly everywhere, but especially Flickr, del.icio.us, Twitter, blip.tv, ClaimID, LibraryThing, Last.fm, Pandora, LinkedIn, Slideshare, and probably other places I’m not thinking of. If you want to just get everything all at once, here’s an RSS of Jason’s lifestream.

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