We have two November 2011 Spotlight Award winners. The first of the two is Diane Johnson.
Diane is Assistant Director of Information Services and Resources at the Health Sciences Library, and has been with the MU Libraries for 31 years. She is originally from South Carolina, and graduated with undergraduate degrees in Radio, TV, & Film and Library Science.
Our award winner’s favorite snack is Cadbury Mini Eggs (available at Easter).
Diane enjoys cooking, concerts, travel, and Harolding, which she defines as “visiting cemeteries, a callback to the movie Harold & Maude“.
Russia is the coolest place she’s ever visited.
“I will never forget sitting up in bed at the Hotel Rossiya looking out the window at the Kremlin; overnight train trip to St. Petersburg; hurtling along the Neva embankment in a cab watching the sunset on the Peter & Paul Fortress at 11:30pm – White Nights!”
Diane has a cat named Cindy.
If a movie was made of her life, Diane does not care who would portray her, “but I must look thin in every scene”.
If she could have a drink with a fictional or real person, she would drink absinthe with Trent Reznor.
Does she have a favorite pair of shoes or boots? “Naturally all my shoes are sensible librarian shoes.”
Diane has just returned from volunteering with Earthwatch at Meerkat Manor in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa this fall, and sent us the above picture to include on Muse.
“I always wondered what I’d look like with a Meerkat on my head, and now I know.”