Author: Ellysa Stern Cahoy

As a librarian at Penn State University, my job centers on helping users—students, faculty, and community members—find the information they need.  Focusing on this important task for over fifteen years has given me a valuable perspective on how information is created, published, and made available.  To a librarian, there’s nothing more exciting than an information challenge—helping someone find the newspaper articles or the books they need to dig deeper into a research area.  During the recent Bloomsburg flood, my skills as a librarian were put to the test.  I read about the Bloomsburg Press Enterprise’s paywall—re-erected after five days of…