Flurry Consulting
Flurry Consulting was formed in 2008 by Eric Hinsdale and Abby Clobridge to bring a fresh, innovative perspective to libraries. Combined, we have nearly thirty years of experience working in libraries — academic, research, special, corporate, and public libraries.
About the Partners
Eric Hinsdale
Eric Hinsdale has been working with technology in libraries since 1990. He has worked in special libraries, academic libraries, and for the public library system. From 2001 to 2003 he served as Technology Coordinator for the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA), which works with the city and county library systems in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. Since 2003 he has worked as Technology Coordinator at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. In 2008 Carleton received the Excellence In Academic Libraries Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). The award cited the library for “working hard in a team atmosphere in order to provide a welcoming environment for its students and faculty by utilizing technology to enhance its space, services and resources.”
Eric’s current areas of interest include open source library systems, support for mobile computing devices, next-generation search tools, and access and preservation for digital collections.
A 2007 Frye Institute Fellow, Eric holds a B.A. degree in sociology and anthropology from Trinity University and an MLS from Simmons College. He also studied the history of science and technology for five years at the University of Minnesota.
Abby Clobridge
Abby Clobridge is the head of the digital library program at Bucknell University. She oversees digital projects and programs, the institutional repository, creating digital materials to support pedagogy, and metadata production. She has over ten years of experience working in library/information science. Prior to joining Bucknell, she worked at CNN as an investigative researcher and news librarian. Her current research interests include using digital objects to support visual literacy; content recruitment strategies for digital repositories; supporting collaborative projects. She is currently involved in developing a K-16 framework for approaching information literacy and technology fluency competencies.
In 2008, Abby created and hosted the first-ever Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference to bring together practitioners, researchers, programmers, librarians, archivists, instructional technologists, administrators, faculty and others interest in digital library topics. The conference was held on July 9, 2008 at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Abby holds an M.S. in Library Science from Florida State University and a B.A. in History from Tufts University.
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