Julian Clark is a serials assistant at the Georgetown University Law Library, and a student at the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland. As a student in the Master of Library Science program, his interests in the practice of librarianship are in technology (management, implementation, and design). His research interests involve ways that libraries and librarians use communicative media for user services and professional development. He has been working in libraries since 2003, and is an advocate for the use of free/open source software.