Katie Boyes

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Katie Boyes

• LIBR 500 Foundations of Information Technology
• kboyes_at_interchange.ubc.ca

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Introduction

• I had a good time playing around with PowerPoint.
• I hope the layout and slides capture a hint of my
  personality.
• Enjoy!

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Growing Up

• Sweet bird you are
• Brighter than a falling star
• All these vain promises on beauty jars
• Somewhere in your wings of time
• You might be laughing
• - Joni Mitchell
• Sweet Bird 1975

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A Family Trip to Disneyland !
My dad, Dick, the teacher, my mom, Laura, the
librarian, and me, the student.
I have an older brother too, Ricky, but he
wasnt on the trip.
My, bigger, little sister Teresa and I she is
16.
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Education

• Graduated from Western Washington University in
  June, 2002.
• Major, Political Science.
• Minor, Womens Studies.

Go Vikings!
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My interest in American Politics and Womens
history led me to the study of American Woman
Suffrage. During my undergraduate courses I
studied several different aspects of the
movement. One of my favorite web sites to view
images from the woman suffrage movement is part
of the Library of Congress American Memory
Project, "Votes For Women, Suffrage in
Pictures, 1850-1920."
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College Life

• Wilson Library became my home away from home, but
  when I wasnt studying
• I found trouble with my roommate Anna.
• cocktail parties.
• chili feeds.
• girlie nights!

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Passing Time

• Sewing is a time consuming and rewarding hobby.
• Last summer I finished my first quilt.
• It ended up being a lot bigger, and taking a lot
  longer than I thought.
• I think Ill make my next quilt for an infant.

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Favorite Things
Betty Smiths novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
The color pink.
Sleeping in.
Joni Mitchells California.
Swimming in a cool lake.
Little Women
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Working

• Through college I had a variety of jobs, some I
  enjoyed, some enticed me to stay in school.
• Cashier and telephone operator at Target.
• Sterilizing technician at a dentists office.
• Serving hamburgers in the dorm cafeteria.
• Counselor at a Girl Scout camp (my favorite job
  thus far).

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Camp Robbinswold

• Established in 1928.
• Located in Lilliwaup, Wa on Hood Canal, on the
  Olympic Peninsula.
• A Girl Scout resident camp serving girls ages
  6-18.
• Ive worked here the past three summers and it
  has become one of my favorite places.

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Looking to the Future

• Pass the core.
• Finish at SLAIS, complete the MLIS degree.
• Work in a public library on the West Coast.
• Run for public office.

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The end.
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As an undergraduate the study of U.S. Woman
Suffrage became my focus. My studies culminated
in a presentation of my work at the Womens
Studies Colloquium during Scholars week at WWU,
and the development of guide to U.S. Woman
Suffrage resources for my Women Studies Senior
Project. my research focused on the National
Womans Party, feminist consciousness, class
politics, and Militancy. Studying the fight for
Woman Suffrage in the U.S., melded my interests
across disciplines into one topic.