Ryan Deschamps is e-Learning Services Manager at the Halifax Public Libraries in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

He was the first graduate of Dalhousie Universities combined MPA/MLIS program and won the Louis Vagianos Medal “awarded to a graduating student who combines the capacity for blending originality with practical thinking and the courage to seek solutions to professional problems outside the mainstream.”   I like to think that describes me — practical, yet innovative; thinking outside the box, so that the stuff inside the box gets better.   That sort of thing.

His main interests include technology, ethics, public service and education.