{"id":6690,"date":"2026-06-26T07:31:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2026-06-26T07:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:33:37","slug":"meet-jesse-galea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/library\/meet-jesse-galea\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Jesse Galea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Jesse Galea recently joined the Library as\u00a0Library Technician in the Library\u2019s Learning Success team. We spoke to Jesse to learn more about his background, work experience and role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’m fairly new to the world of libraries, having only completed my Graduate Diploma in Information and Library Science early last year. One of my genuine motivating factors for studying that course was being frustrated by my local library’s inconsistent subject headings and wishing I could be the person to fix them. Around the same time that I graduated, I started working as a Library Officer in a public library, where I still work on the days I am not at Curtin. Before that, I studied a Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing major, Professional Writing and Publishing minor), where I developed more of an interest in topics like copyright and plagiarism, censorship and how the so-called rules of writing and publishing aren’t as concrete or neutral as they might seem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently joined Â鶹ֱ²¥ Library as a Library Technician in the Learning Success team. My role is quite varied, which I love. Some of my responsibilities include buying or digitising materials academics have requested for their reading lists, helping locate suitable alternatives to unavailable textbooks, doing detective work to track down working links whenever students\u00a0report a broken link in a reading list, and working on a bunch of behind-the-scenes projects that most people won’t notice but will hopefully improve experiences with reading lists. A lot of my work feels like solving a puzzle, which is incredibly satisfying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, the main challenge in my work was the amount of information I had to learn in this new academic library context. Things like how copyright works for an academic institution, what our responsibilities are in terms of accessibility, and how different publishers operate. Now, there is still a lot I don’t know, but it’s not overwhelming. I can feed my insatiable curiosity about how everything works and how I can help make things better. My favourite part of the role is doing the kinds of methodical, meticulous tasks that other people might find tedious or boring in the service of improving the experience of staff and students; it’s rewarding knowing that I’m helping people without them having to specifically ask for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside of work, I’m a huge reader, mostly of queer coming-of-age books, and I’m an unashamed spreadsheet enthusiast. I’m also a young adult literature writer, though I never seem to have as much time to write as I’d like.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by Jesse Galea, Library Technician<\/em>
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