Hi! I'm Lauren. 

Welcome to my portfolio!

I'm an experienced educator, with over a decade of classroom experience as an English teacher at the middle school, high school, and collegiate levels; currently I am a librarian/library media specialist who has worked in both elementary and high schools.  

This website began as a portfolio of the work I had done while working on my MS in Information Science School Library (the degree formerly know as the MLIS); it now exists as a portfolio of the work I've done as the school library media specialist at Fox Meadow Elementary School, the high school librarian at the French American School of New York, and as a graduate student at the University at Albany.

As a lifelong bibliophile and accumulator of miscellaneous knowledge, becoming a school library media specialist means having the opportunity to combine my love of books, my skills as an educator, my knowledge of information fluency, and my dedication to the ethical use of information to prepare the next generation of students with the skills and knowledge they will need to navigate an exponentially saturated world of information, while also empowering them to discover books that inspire and delight them.  

I've named my website BookSwim because there are few things I love more than proverbially diving into a book and getting lost in the sea of words, which is made even more enjoyable when I'm doing so at one of the beaches of Cape Cod, captured in the header image above.  In that spirit, I invite you to dive on in to my corner of the internet, where the water is fine and the creations are, of course, all mine.

Happy swimming!

Lauren