I’ve been a teacher, student, librarian and photographer for the past 38 years.  Community development, long-term thinking and enthusiastic curiosity are part of everything I do.  I have an overdeveloped sense of justice.

I currently live on the summit of an extinct volcano, in the middle a body of water called the Pacific Ocean, on the third planet of the Sol System in the Orion-Cygnus Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy.

As a Humanities Librarian at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library, I work with a variety of humanities faculty and students supporting research and instruction, teach courses in R, Python and 21st century information literacy, and optimistically struggle prevent the coming of another Dark Age.

R. David Beales_CV  – updated March, 2015