We’re very pleased to welcome Abigail (LibraryThing AbigailAdams26, Litsy AbigailAdams26) to the team, as our new Project Specialist for LibraryThing.com.
Abigail is taking over from Meg, and will be writing State of the Thing, running the official social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter, coordinating the Early Reviewers program, and helping to answer member queries. If it’s writing or editing-related, she will be involved.
Her arrival leaves us with an abundance of Abigails, as she joins LibraryThing’s very first employee, Abby Blachly. We shall henceforth always call Abby “Abby” and Abigail “Abigail”!
Say hello on her LibraryThing profile or on the Welcome Abigail Talk topic.
About Abigail
Abigail was born in Cleveland, but grew up in New York, just north of the city. She received a B.A. in Classics from Oberlin College, and a MPhil in Children’s Literature from Trinity College Dublin. She has worked in the book business since the age of sixteen, when she got her first job at a local Waldenbooks, and has since worked at six other bookstores, in four cities on two continents. At her most recent bookstore, she had the pleasure of meeting some of her favorite children’s book creators.
Abigail currently lives in central New Jersey, with her mother and four somnolent cats answering (sometimes) to Chloe, Emmie, Orion, and Tigger. She has a passion for history (ancient and modern), languages, world music, and children’s literature, and is currently engaged in a project to visit all of her new home state’s Revolutionary War sites.
Favorite Authors: L.M. Montgomery, Robin McKinley, Diana Wynne Jones, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Georgette Heyer
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This is to wish you a really good time here on LT. I’m writing from Italy. Please make this place lively and happy. We’re living hard times but we’ll survive. God bless from a bibliomaniac dinosaur.
Welcome. I, too, have an interest in history. Good luck with your endeavor.
Welcome Abigail!
Welcome to LT. I hope you have a great time here!
Mckait here… just wanted to say hello and congratulations. I hope you have a wonderful time being LT staff.
Welcome Abigail!
My stars and garters…I thought I was the last Georgette Heyer fan on the planet! Welcome!
Thanks, everyone! Glad to be part of the LT team!
gmathis: oh no, Heyer has many fans, I find.
Welcome to the Thing. Have fun!
Hi! Welcome to The Thing!
Hello from Phoenix Arizona.
Thank you for all your support in the book community. It’s people like you and us that may be the saving grace for real books. Keeping the experience alive for generations to come
Hi Abigail and welcome from Pennsylvania (Pennsylady).
You had just arrived and helped me secure an Early Review
that was 2 months late.
So, we’ve met.
Thank you and it’s nice to meet you.
Welcome to LT! I’m sure you will enjoy this community.
Welcome Abigail
Thanks again, everyone!
Hello Abigail! Great to have you on the LibraryThing Team! 🙂
Welcome, Abigail! All our best wishes for unbridled success in your new role! LibraryThing keeps impressing with its community spirit and massive love of reading. We are grateful to be a part of the Thing with you!
Thank you, Christine and Kat!
Welcome to L.T. Wish you lots of success and fun here.
Thank you, Angel!
Welcome from Canada!!
Welcome to LT I hope you have a great time and enjoy yourself.
Thank you, Bob and Joan!
Sending you a big warm welcome from sunny Florida and wishing you all the best on your new journey with the Library Thing community.
Thank you, Rachel!
Welcome! I envy you this job! Another welcome from sunny FLORIDA where reading is a great past time. With your qualifications and interests, have you thought of trying out for JEOPARDY?
Thank you, Karen! I have not considered trying out for Jeopardy, but I do enjoy watching it, with my mother, and shouting out the answers!
Hi,
Welcome to LibraryThing, a wonderful place to discover terrific books and new friends who love to read!
Welcome, Abigail from Central VA! I love the parts of LT you’re in charge of. I’m also a history buff, so I think it’s great you are trying to visit all the Revolutionary War sites in NJ. Maybe you can let us know your favorite ones.
Thank you, Barbara and Margaret!
Margaret, I think my favorite so far was the Washington’s Crossing State Park, with the museum and Johnson’s Ferry House. Typically for us, we took a wrong turn, leaving, and ended up accidentally crossing the Delaware ourselves, and ending up in Pennsylvania. Thank goodness we did, as there’s a whole historic park just on the other side of the bridge, with historic buildings that have been turned into museums. Astonishingly, neither park promotes the other, despite commemorating the same event, and being less than a ten minute drive from one another. Apparently there was talk at some point, about turning them into one national park, but NJ resisted, and there you are.
Welcome, Abigail!
Welcome Abigail, from a fellow TCD MPhil! (mine was in Reformation and Enlightenment Studies)
Glad to have you here on LT!
Thank you, TraLamont and Katie!
Katie: Trinners are Winners! 😉
Welcome Abigail to the Library.
Thank you, William!
Hello, I wish you a successful time as LibraryThing Project Specialist.
Thank you, Hassana!