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Who we are
Tim Spalding
Founder and developer
Tim founded LibraryThing in August 2005 as a pet project, to catalog his own library and for academic and bibliophile friends. He had no idea it would explode like it did.
Tim grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and went to Georgetown University. He spent much of his 20's dabbling in archaeology and pursuing a PhD in Greek and Latin at Michigan, but dropped out. Before founding LibraryThing, Tim developed educational software for Houghton Mifflin in Boston, and ran a variety of smaller websites.
Tim lives in Portland, Maine with his wife, the author Lisa Carey, and six year-old son Liam.
Favorite authors include (fiction) Vladimir Nabokov, Mark Twain, Robertson Davies, (classics) Callimachus, Herodotus, Artemidorus, Moses Finley.
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Abby Blachly
Librarian and head of LibraryThing for Libraries
Abby grew up on the coast of Massachusetts, and received a BA in Women's Studies from Mount Holyoke College. She then went to work for Tim at Houghton Mifflin while going to library school. She has MA and MLS degrees in History and Library Science from Simmons College (graduating with dreams of working in a university archive). Abby worked as a corporate indexer/cataloger before leaving to join Tim's little bookish startup...
Abby lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her wife Sara and their son Jasper. She loves running, baking, and has recently discovered gardening, in her small city-sized patch of yard.
Favorite authors—an ever growing list, including: Ann Patchett, David Sedaris, Sarah Waters, Ian McEwan, and George R.R. Martin.
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Christopher Holland
Developer
Christopher was born in Greenville, Mississippi and grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas. He attended Mississippi State University and attained a B.A. in Art with emphasis in Graphic Design and Digital Media. He spent most of the 90s working on various research projects in digital media: mapping and data visualization of large data sets, archaeology dig site documentation and monitoring, 3D scanning and reproduction, and 3D virtual environments (CAVEs). Christopher became interested in the Web while it was still a research project among a few universities. Lucky for him, MSU was one of those universities. He's been developing websites since 1993. Recently, most of his work is related to user interfaces and mobile applications. Christopher became a member of LibraryThing in January of 2006 when he was hired by Tim to help with his little project.
Christopher has lived in various places: Washington D.C., Tampa, FL, Starkville, MS, and even briefly for two summers in Lahav, Israel. He currently lives in Mobile, Alabama with his wife, Ashley, and their daughter Kate.
Christopher enjoys and spends his free time doing photography, painting, spending time with his family, carpentry/remodeling, and, strangely enough, programming.
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Chris Catalfo
Library Developer
Chris is a native Baltimorean, hon. He made a lot of degree salad in school (a BBA in Business from Loyola College in Maryland, an MA in Italian Language from Middlebury and an MLS from North Carolina State University). He has worked at libraries doing data munging, MARC mushing and cataloging. He remembers well the musty book dust one wears after cataloging rare books! He had fun teaching Italian for a couple of years. Before coming to LibraryThing he worked on the Biblios cataloging editor project where he got to make something close to the editor he always wished he had as a cataloger.
Chris lives in Connecticut with his wife and two kids. He enjoys playing classical and fingerstyle guitar and recording old Beatles songs.
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Jeremy Dibbell
Librarian (Social Media & Rare Books)
Jeremy grew up in upstate New York, and graduated with a BA in Political Science from Union College before moving to Boston in 2005. He has MA and MLS degrees in History and Library Science from Simmons College, and worked at the Massachusetts Historical Society before joining the LibraryThing team in January 2011. He's been an LT member since January 2006, and has headed the Legacy Libraries project since 2007. Jeremy now lives in Portland, just around the corner from LT HQ.
When he's not working on one LibraryThing-related project or another, Jeremy reads a whole lot of books, and is currently researching the history of books and print culture in Bermuda.
Favorite authors (a sampling): Paul Collins, Robert Darnton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Naomi Novik, E.O. Wilson...
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Kate McAngus
Assistant Librarian for LibraryThing for Libraries
Kate is a native Austinite (5th generation, thankyouverymuch) and the first of her family to leave the great state of Texas. She has a BA in English and Russian from Baylor University in Waco, TX, a MA in Slavic Languages & Literatures from the University of Virginia and a MLS from Simmons College in Boston. Kate is jazzed to be settled in Boston and to no longer be in school.
Kate enjoys yoga, running, cooking & baking for friends, facetime-ing with her nieces in Texas, reading fiction, translating Russian poetry, drinking IPAs, cheering for the Houston Astros, and dreaming of the dog she will soon own.
Favorite authors: Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene, Tana French, Anna Akhmatova, Gillian Flynn
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Mike Topper
Developer
Mike was born and raised in a small city right outside Detroit, Michigan. After graduating from the University of Michigan with degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics, he went on to work for various startup companies in Ann Arbor, New York City and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mike and his wife moved back from Argentina last year and are now restoring a 200-year-old farmhouse in rural Maine.
Mike enjoys hiking in the White Mountains, knitting things for friends and family, reading a lot of epic fantasy books, buying fancy scotch, rooting for the Detroit Tigers and working on his falling-down farmhouse. He has dreams of one day owning a herd of dairy goats.
Favorite authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, George R.R. Martin, Michael Sipser, and Kurt Vonnegut.
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Seth Ryder
Systems Administrator
Seth grew up in a small town outside Grand Rapids, Michigan. He worked for a large hosting company in the midwest where he spent his time as a Systems Administrator and even dabbled with a bit of quality assurance work for their internal development team. He has also has been doing freelance development for a few small companies over the past three years.
Seth enjoys attending concerts, learning about new technologies, reading fantasy books, exploring local breweries with friends, and hacking on personal projects.
Favorite authors: J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, J.K. Rowling, and Brandon Sanderson.
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KJ Gormley
Assistant Librarian for LibraryThing for Libraries
KJ grew up on the coast of Maine and earned her BA in Cultural Anthropology from Smith College. After school, she went to work for the Skidompha Public Library in Damariscotta, Maine, where she alternated between raising funds and assisting patrons with assorted technology woes. She moved to Portland in September 2012, and enjoys watching the sun set over Back Bay from her window.
When not reading, KJ enjoys writing fiction, making a fool of herself at dance classes, playing ukulele, and sampling the Portland food culture. She is currently reading/watching the collected works of Shakespeare.
Favorite authors: Robertson Davies, Ruth Ozeki, Neil Gaiman, John Irving
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