C. D. Cook

Recent activities

A selection of training I've completed and conferences I've attended recently.

• RDA from Scratch for Catalogers (May 2013)
• 28th Annual Computers in Libraries Conference (April 2013)
• National Library of Medicine PubMed for Trainers (October 2012)

Selected writings

• "Letter Reveals Lord North's Apprehension Over British Defeat at Trenton, 1777"
• "The Translator Emerges" in Multiple Merwins: Poet, Translator, Environmental Activist

Welcome

Hello world! I'm Christopher D. Cook, an academic librarian in Washington, D.C. Some of my professional specialties include cataloging, rare books, and incunabula. You can learn more about me by exploring this site. You can also follow me on Twitter.

Brief Biography

I was raised in west-central Illinois where I developed a love for books and history and an appreciation of nature and the world that surrounds us. After high school, I attended the state's flagship institution of higher learning, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where my horizons were broadened even further than I could have imagined. My major area of study was Italian and I pursued courses in linguistics and classical archaeology and almost everything in between while working as a student at the university's classics and rare book libraries. This work led me to pursue a master's degree in library and information science from the same institution. My first professional library job followed immediately upon my graduation. After three years, I moved on to explore the nation's capital where I worked as a librarian for a government agency before returning to academia.