Next let's meet #IAMSLIC2022 presenter, and IAMSLIC membership database manager and Membership Committee chair (plus former Treasurer), Kristen LaBonte.

Kristen is a Research & Engagement Librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. She is a subject liaison to multiple life and environmental science departments. Kristen earned a Bachelor's Degree in Geography from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1999 and a Master’s of Library Science in 2004 from Southern Connecticut State University. She then joined the CSU Channel Islands faculty as the Digital Resources and GIS Librarian and in 2011, she returned as a Reference & Instruction Librarian to the UCSB Library.

Kristen will be presenting in person at the conference on "Strategic planning for shifting academic librarian roles: Moving from subject librarianship towards functional, skill-based teams".

Professionally, Kristen is interested in reference librarianship, subject librarianship, and science librarianship. Personally, she is interested in winemaking, organic gardening, community gardens, travel, live music, birdwatching, hiking, bikepacking and backpacking, so you can chat with her about all this and more in person next week!