…this site.

Welcome to megholle.com! I created this site to display my work and play in Library and Information Studies / Science. Here you’ll find my professional résumé, writing samples, web design and other project examples, as well as ongoing essays and shouts about whatever piques my interest or demands attention re: all things information and its users.

The modern MLIS degree comes equip with a mess of expansion ports—thus the blogging platform for this site, foreseeing and preparing for future growth (sharing professional developments and reflections, blogging conferences, getting Dugg / Boinged / Next Big Thinged and rocketing to internet stardom / laughed off the planet, and so forth). But the core intention for the present is the presentation of my work and interests, found under Portfolio to the right. These items will be updated and more will be added when appropriate.

The site is powered by WordPress with a theme by Arun Kale, which I have modified in minor yet painstaking ways to suit my needs. All photography and text is my own unless otherwise noted.

Have questions or comments about me or the content of this site? Contact me at megholle at gmail.com

…me(g holle).

Hi. It’s pronounced “Holly.”

Though raised in West Fargo, North Dakota, to prodigious effect (basketball state champion, team captain and MVP ’98, sit doooown!), I’ve long considered myself Minnesotan, having lived in Minneapolis for seven years during and following my undergraduate English degree at the University of Minnesota. Alt-cultured and endlessly curious, I keep straight-faced when gesturing I’m straight-laced, canvas shoes shined, a citizen upright and outright engrossed by all things politics, culture, society, art and of course, information-based (and these days, what doesn’t try to communicate, inspire, sell, inform, persuade and blow your mind?).

Adventures in library science brought me north to Canada in 2006 where higher education was significantly more affordable, even for me as an international student. In May 2009 I graduated from the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, with 2008 spent in beautiful Victoria for cooperative education (full-time, in-depth internships).

It was a tremendous experience—both graduate school and living in Canada, the former kindling professional fires while the latter was plain fun. Canadians are awesome and British Columbia is gorgeous; I was always down for exploring new shorelines, teeming shops, yam sushi eateries and booming dance floors. Minneapolis eventually called me home, however; I currently live in the Whittier neighborhood with a murder of crows and never ending bánh mì chay.

Personal pursuits include graphic novels, dance battles, contemporary folklore, snickering at internet memes and creative writing. I share photography-infused narrative nonfiction at deepsicks, my website since 2002, and have further complicated my web presence by associating with the Fakeproject Corporation of America, writing social satire for electronic music and art collaborations (one such work, You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living, is being turned into a play to be performed in Spring 2010 in Vancouver). It’s a precarious but promising industry—internet self expression without compromising professional integrity. Or so I trust.

I am naturally on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so forth. Feel free to find and friend me to expand our respective empires.

Thoughts, jeers, cheers? Email away! megholle (at) gmail.com