By Barbara Kopshina, Penn State DuBois Campus Library

If you have ever worked with electronic reserves at Penn State, you are familiar with Nicolle Nicastro’s name. She is the electronic reserves coordinator at University Park and handles all new materials for her location, Dickinson Law, Great Valley, Greater Allegheny, and World Campus. She also assists liaisons from other campuses and serves as a copyright reviewer for Hathitrust. In 1998, Nicolle started working at Schuylkill’s Ciletti Memorial Library as a student. In August of 2001, she began working for Lending Services and in 2007 made the move to Course Reserves Services.

Outside of work, Nicolle has been blogging for the American and European Mori Kei communities for two years. Mori Kei is a Japanese street fashion style created in 2005 that features modest, layered clothing to create a fairytale look. The lifestyle side of Mori Kei focuses on being closer to nature and creating a more peaceful life. Check out Nicolle’s blog at http://baaikha.tumblr.com/. Sewing, crochet, machine embroidery, and art journaling are also hobbies that she follows.

In her spare time Nicolle is a gamer and describes herself as an “all around geek playing everything from board games to table top RPG’s, to AAA video games like Pokemon to independent games like Undertale and Five Night at Freddy’s.” She loves vacationing at the beach, attending board game conventions, and absolutely has to have Tazo’s Organic Chai Latte concentrate! Nicolle adores spending time with her husband, David, and their two children, Lily, 6, and David, 2.