Matthew Marsteller:  

After high school graduation, I spent 6 years in the Navy in their Nuclear Power Program. I spent two years in Navy schooling (Basic Electricity & Electronics School in Orlando, FL and San Diego, CA; Interior Communications Class A School in San Diego, CA; Nuclear Power School back in Orlando, FL; and S3G Prototype School in West Milton, NY. That was followed by 3 days short of 4 years aboard the USS Mississippi (CGN-40) - this was a nuclear powered guided missile cruiser. After that I felt it was my time to go to college. I had worked in the library at Strong Vincent and for my last year on the Mississippi I volunteered to work in and eventually lead the technical publications library. On a particularly boring "Gitmo" cruise a couple of months before leaving the Navy I took stock of things and decided that I liked the challenge of storing and retrieving information. What I didn't like was floating around the ocean with nothing but a bunch of guys aboard ... and every once in a while we had issues with other nations. So, why not do the library thing on dry land ... maybe at a sleepy little college in a town named ... Willoughby? Well, it didn't really turn out that way, but it's been pretty good. I went to good ol' Clarion University of PA (go Eagles) for a bachelors degree in Physics and then a Masters of Science in Library Science. After Clarion I've spent 24 years in the science librarian racket. My first job was as Assistant Science Librarian at the University of South Carolina. I didn't really plan to stay there long and moved on to work as a government contractor librari...Expand for more