This month’s issue of 7 Questions with AAAL Members features Rob Hudson, Associate University Librarian, Learning and Research Services at Athabasca University Library

1. If you could learn to do anything, what would it be?
Right now I am learning about cloud computing with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Athabasca U is migrating much of our content to the cloud. I wish to be certified in this to help use the cloud to enhance library services.

2. If you could be any fictional character, who would you choose?
I have always admired Sherlock Holmes for the same reasons I like Spock from Star Trek – cool logic and reasoning ability.

3. What would you name the autobiography of your life?
Sorry you had to see that.

4. What is your best piece of career advice?
Flexibility and adaptability are key skills for work and life. For managers, empathy is the most important trait.

5. What do you do when you’re not working?
Taking care of my Guinea Pigs.

6. What is your favourite quote?
“Fiat justitia, ruat coelum” is a Latin legal phrase: “Let justice be done though the heavens fall.” The belief is that justice must be realized regardless of consequences.

7. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Peru. My wife is from Colombia, and we have friends on the coast in Peru where we would like to spend a year.

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