Monika Bargmann    Gruppenmoderator

== work experience ==
 
* library assistant and librarian - systems librarian and first level support, subject and descriptive cataloguing, collection development for LIS and IT, reference service, interlibrary loan and document delivery, organising library events, maintaining the library's website and link collection, designing virtual library services for distance students
* research assistant and junior researcher - editor of a working paper series, teaching, supervising theses and projects, building a bibliographic database and a link collection, supporting a research project, participating in a research project about electronic government and democracy
* journalist - investigation, composition of articles, photographing, layout, proof-reading at a lower-Austrian regional weekly newspaper
* intern - analysis of a library's rare book collection's state of preservation, web design, picture editing, descriptive cataloguing of books and journals
 
== professional interests ==
 
* librarianship as a profession
* social software, web 2.0, library 2.0
* libraries and librarians in fiction and motion pictures
* open access
* editor for Austria of the open access archive E-LIS
* public sector information
* government information and government libraries
 
== private interests ==
 
* science fiction and social fiction
* collecting librariana (postcards, books and films with librarians as characters, bookmarks, photos, cups, T-shirts...)
* collecting dictionaries and learning foreign languages
* solving challenging crosswords
* hiking and swimming
* taking photos of libraries, fences/bars and prohibition signs

== Last words ==
 
Fall on your knees and worship a librarian (Librarian Avengers)