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About the Blog
Tech Tips & Timely Tidbits replaces a paper newsletter called “Tech Tuesdays” aimed at educating teachers at Wagener-Salley High School about technology, new materials, and sharing ideas. My goal with switching to a blog vs. paper is to make the communication shift from information only to a true dialog with teachers and possibly open the discussion up to a wider audience and participation base.
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About Me
My name is Heather Loy and I am a library media specialist at Wagener-Salley High School, Wagener, South Carolina (USA).
I am relatively new to the education field, but not necessarily to my profession. I have been in the “book business” since high school, having worked at B. Dalton Bookseller for 9 years (when my store closed), then off again on again stints at Barnes & Nobel and Waldenbooks. Realizing that I couldn’t make a career (money) working retail, I decided to put my Bachelor of Science in Office Administration to use and hired on at Blue Cross Blue Shield of SC and worked there for 6 years, while still holding part-time jobs at a bookstore (can’t beat those employee discounts!) AND as a substitute at Richland County Public Library. I soon came to realize that insurance wasn’t my forte, and that working three jobs just to make ends meet was ridiculous, I enrolled in the College of Library and Information Science at USC. I was going to become a public librarian with the intentions of working in periodicals or reference, but had the good fortune to take a class taught by Dr. Pat Feehan who introduced me to the joys of Young Adult librarianship and along with influences by Dr. Donna Shannon, decided to give high school media specialist a try. Which is how I ended up working at Wagener-Salley right out of library school in 2002.
