Subject/Object

You are at the professional home of Steven Chabot, a 30-year old librarian and information professional currently residing in Toronto.

I came to librarianship through study at the iSchool at the University of Toronto. Before then I studied philosophy, which was a stand in for a love of the history of ideas and intellectual history which isn’t taught much anymore.

Through that historian’s lens I became interested in how technology shapes thought, and how thinking reacts to technology. Therefore, I dabbled in book history and the McLuhan program at the Faculty of Information.

Trained as an academic librarian, for the last three years I’ve been employed more as a knowledge manager for the Ontario Government. It doesn’t feel like a home, but I’ve gained a lot of insight about how academic librarians can make themselves indispensable to the university as well as the faculty and students they serve.

I took a hiatus from writing on this blog for a few years to let some thoughts coalesse. I also write on more general personal, philosophical, and historical topics at A Tenuous Balance.