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Although my first name is Maria, I go by my middle name, Veronica. I am an Argentinean who moved to Los Angeles after getting married in the fall of 2003. I was first drawn to the Library and Information Science field years ago following a passion for fact-finding searches, solving analytical challenges, and pursuing the anguishing and romantic impossibility of reaching the “Book of the Books”, the “Catalog of the Catalogs” in an unending library like in the story La Biblioteca de Babel by Jorge Luis Borges (my favorite author and former Director of the National Library, Buenos Aires). While in Argentina, I worked for eight years in the Book Division at the National Library delivering reference and instructional services. Through my work at the National Library I was hired as an information broker by E. Belgrano Rawson, a writer and journalist, while he was developing his book Noticias Secretas de América (Planeta, 1998). My dearest work associated memories are related to spending long hours in the archives and libraries, delving into the late 1800’s Argentinean history while working for B. Rawson. Unearthing facts and myths about our political and social realities involved a fascinating learning process that helped me sharpen my research skills. As for my work here in the States, I worked for FDR-Carson Elementary School Library in Lawndale, California, and am currently interning at the Archives Department at CSDH.

I’m three courses away from graduating and am very excited about taking this course. I believe that the provision of resource-enhanced collaborative virtual spaces are becoming more relevant and will require expanding the use of technologies. It is important to become attentive to new values and cognitive and communicative styles in both virtual and physical dimensions though it will present a challenge.

Favorite Books

Borges, J.L. (1964). Funes the Memorius. In Labyrinths : selected stories and other writings (pp. 87-95). Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin.

Cortazar, J. (2002). Rayuela. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana.

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Maria Veronica Ciocia D'Aquino
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Archival Intern
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Dominguez Hills University
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