[image1-right:resize-180w]Linda Anselmo (MS '10) is the focus of a recent Illuminate Illinois feature by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Illinois Chapter. Anselmo is a research librarian and manager of information services at the Chicago offices of the law firm Michael Best & Friedrich. Before beginning her master’s degree program at GSLIS, she worked as an accountant at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In the interview with SLA, Anselmo discussed her career and why she chose to leave accounting for the information science profession:
Are you in the job today that you thought you would be in 10 years ago? What was something you were doing then that influenced you eventual career path?It wasn’t on the radar at all. Before becoming a librarian, I was an accountant. Ten years ago, I was working as a Grants and Contacts Manager, dealing with the finances of a department at University of Illinois in Chicago. I think I have always been a curious person, and I did have some personal research projects that made me wonder if doing research was something that I could do as a career. It wasn’t until 2007 that I decided to change careers. It took me four years to go from making the decision to change my career to finding a job, but I am very glad I did.
Anselmo is a recently elected member of the Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) executive board who will begin a three-year term on June 30. Her colleagues on the board will be Jim Obst (MS '04), president; Ethan Henderson (MS '07), vice president; Mary M. Glatthaar (MS '07), secretary; Donna Schaal (MS '00), treasurer; Rachel Bindman (MS '02), past president; David Kates (MS '02), director; Deborah Robertson (MS '00), director; and Stephanie Atkins (MS '99), director.