Jenny Levine

Jenny Levine is the Strategy Guide at the American Library Association, where she works in the Information Technology department. As part of her job, she runs ALA Connect (ALA's professional collaboration site), helps to improve the ALA conference experience, leads emerging technologies initiatives (particularly with social media), does internal training for staff, runs ALA’s national gaming initiatives, helps libraries join the current DIY/Maker movement, and more.

In 2007, she organized the first ALA TechSource Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium, as well as the successful follow up in 2008. She also helps coordinate ALA's annual International Games Day initiative.

In addition, Levine started the first library blog in 1995, Jenny's Cybrary to the Stars, and hopes to return to blogging again someday at her more recent blog, The Shifted Librarian, a site that has helped librarians understand the coming impact of ubiquitous, mobile, always-on internet (and hence ubiquitous, always-on information) on our profession.

She wrote the September/October 2006 issue of "Library Technology Reports," titled Gaming and Libraries: Intersection of Services and is an avid proponent of gaming services in libraries. LTR published her follow-up issues, Gaming and Libraries Update: Broadening the Intersections, in April 2008, and Gaming & Libraries: Learning Lessons from the Intersections in July 2009.