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 March 2021

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The ESU Student Foundation is selling ESU-branded face masks to help students! Each mask is $10 with all proceeds going to the Student Foundation Emergency Scholarship Fund. Click here to buy your ESU face mask today.

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Message From the Dean

Dear Distinguished SLIM Alumni,

Happy spring!

I hope many of you already received your COVID-19 vaccine or are receiving it now or in the near future. With vaccines and the downtrend of cases, I am cautiously optimistic that we will be back to normal soon. With the pandemic still with us, all of our spring classes are virtual, including weekend intensive synchronous sessions. Our summer sessions this year will be 10-weeks long, and all of the summer classes will be virtual as well. Even in this virtual-only environment, our faculty and regional directors have excelled in their instruction and advising, which I deeply appreciate.

I am excited to announce the new ESU comprehensive fundraising campaign called “Together, Forward!” I was so excited about this that I made a video to announce it in Korean, which is my mother tongue and the video is available here. I hope you enjoy it. You have always been generous in giving back to SLIM/ESU, and I’m asking you to encourage other alumni and friends to consider doing the same.

When we are together, we are able to move forward with unbelievable magnitude so that we can help our students accomplish amazing things while they are in school and after their graduation. Remember, a few cents a day and a few dollars a week from you will make a big difference, especially if all 5,000 living SLIM alumni do the same. I firmly believe every one of you can do it.

Your giving made this spring semester very special to many of our current students with their scholarships. I’m very happy to tell you that SLIM provided scholarships to more than 75 students this spring alone. Without your generosity, this would not have been possible at all.

Have a great spring.

Sincerely,

Wooseob Jeong 



    Dr. Wooseob Jeong
    Dean, School of Library and      
    Information Management, ESU
    https://www.emporia.edu/slim/

 

 
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School of Library and Information Management News

SLIM is excited to announce that current SLIM students Andrea Dater and Mary Thomas have been selected as Fellows in the MLA Research Training Institute (RTI) beginning this summer. The RTI provides librarians and LIS graduate students with the opportunity to work on research design and planning to conduct research that improves practice and adds to the professional knowledgebase. This is a great opportunity for SLIM students to strengthen their research expertise and conduct an independent research project with the supervision of RTI faculty instructors.

Andrea Dater is originally from Kansas City, Missouri, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from the University of Kansas in 2019. Her previous work experience includes seven years in retail customer service and five years in clinical trial research prior to enrolling in the SLIM program at ESU. Her background in clinical research inspired her to pursue health sciences librarianship, and her research interests include health data literacy, accessibility, and consumer health information. 

Mary Margaret Thomas is in her second year of her Master of Library and Information Science Degree program. She is part of the Denver, Colorado cohort in the School of Library and Information Management (SLIM) at Emporia State University. As a former educator, she is interested in integrating her teaching skills with her library research skills. Mary’s research interests include creating awareness of mental illness stigma and designing measures to combat it, in addition to promoting mental health and physical health in libraries.


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COVID Trauma Anniversary: It's Okay to Not Be Okay

Beginning in September of 2019, SLIM began a program to provide a platform hosting online presentations for the library community at large and our students. Since then, we have had the pleasure of hosting over 38 webinars covering a wide-range of topics relevant to libraries, which have drawn presenters and participants from across the United States and the world. All live webinar sessions and recordings of past webinars are free to join and view. A schedule of upcoming webinars and a link to our Webinar Archive can be found here.

Recently, the SLIM Webinar Program was highlighted in the Association for Library Service to Children blog with their story “Covid Trauma Anniversary: It’s Okay to Not Be Okay,” which featured the “Being Trauma Informed During a Pandemic” webinar by Bryce Kozla hosted by SLIM in April of 2020. Bryce Kozla is a Youth Services Librarian at Washington County Cooperative Library Services in Oregon and a trained facilitator in Trauma-Informed Oregon's "Foundations of Trauma-Informed Care."

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Student News

Congratulations to Elizabeth Ferguson, candidate for the degree Doctor of Philosophy, Library and Information Management, at Emporia State University, who started the spring 2021 semester off by successfully defending her dissertation research proposal, “Quiet Kudos: Information Behavior of Fan Lurkers and Participants on the Archive of Our Own.”

Dissertation committee members were Dr. Sarah Sutton, Chair, Associate Professor, Emporia State University, School of Library and Information Management; Dr. Michael Widdersheim, Member, Assistant Professor, Emporia State University, School of Library and Information Management; and Dr. Anne Jamison, Member, Professor, University of Utah, Department of English.

 

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Congratulations to current SLIM graduate student Hazlett Henderson on receiving first place in this years' 1863 Scholarship Essay Contest. Contestants were asked to write 750 to 1,000 words about how Emporia State University changed their life. Way to go! Learn more.

 

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Currently a student in our Idaho program, Shasta Hochstrasser has recently been named the Interim Director of the Mountain Home Public Library in Mountain Home, Idaho.  Congratulations, Shasta.

 
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Congratulations to Ting Wang! Ting is currently a PhD student with SLIM and recently presented her poster at The Capitol Graduate Research Summit. Judges awarded her poster and presentation first place among ESU contestants. We are so proud of you!

 

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Alumni News 

SLIM alumni Sean Bird (’08) recently won the I Love My Librarian Award, joining only 130 other librarians who have won this award since 2008 when it was begun by the ALA. Sean is currently the Associate Dean of University Libraries at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, and a frequent speaker at SLIM events. Learn more.

 

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SLIM alumni Elizabeth Moreau Nicolai (’06) also recently won the I Love My Librarian Award, joining only 130 other librarians who have won this award since 2008 when it was begun by the ALA. Elizabeth is currently the Youth Services Coordinator at the Anchorage Public Library in Anchorage, Alaska. Learn more.


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SLIM alumni Max Macias (’09), Lisa Taylor (’17), and current SLIM student Alisa Williams were members of the Oregon Library Association's Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Antiracism Task Force, which received a 2020 ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence.

Max Macias writes: “It is with great excitement and honor that the Oregon Library Association's Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Antiracism presents the OLA EDI Antiracism Toolkit! You can download a copy at the Oregon Library Association website or the State Library of Oregon website. A paper copy of this toolkit will be distributed to every library in Oregon. They will also receive a digital copy to print and share with staff.”'


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Margaret Nott (’19) was recently made the Branch Librarian at the Bown Crossing Branch of the Boise Public Library.  Congratulations!

 

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SLIM alumnus Matt West (’18) is the Business Librarian at the Poudre River Public Library in Fort Collins, Colorado, and was recently featured in an article in the local Loveland Reporter-Herald newspaper. As the Business Librarian, he coordinates the services of the library to help patrons find information that might help their businesses in various ways, such as cutting costs and reaching more customers, and has seen a spike in traffic during the pandemic. To further develop his skills as a Business Librarian, Matt also recently completed Harvard Business School’s Online CORe Program. Click here to read the article.

 

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Faculty & Staff News


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Congratulations to Dr. Emily Vardell for winning the first quarter Advocacy Challenge of the Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MCMLA). Dr. Vardell created a faculty book club for the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University to focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) issues. So far, they have read “How to be an Anti-Racist” by Ibram Kendi and “Algorithms of Oppression” by Safiya Noble. They spend time talking about how they can incorporate their readings and discussions within courses to help graduate library students consider how best to support DEI efforts in their own workplaces.

 

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New SLIM faculty member Dr. Stan Trembach recently added to our sizable Webinar Archive with his presentation “Libraries and Non-Traditional Information Seekers: Integrating Cultural Competencies into Literary Education." Dr. Trembach promoted developing critical information literacy skills and cultural competencies to better engage marginalized library users.

A recording of this and all of the webinars SLIM has hosted, as well as a schedule of upcoming webinars, can be found on our Webinar page.

 

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 ALUMNI IN MEMORIUM

Michael Browne – Class of 1982

Johnnie Frisbie – Class of 1995

Camilla Gentry – Class of 1975

Margaret Kirkpatrick – Class of 1974

William Mullane – Class of 1967

Wanda Witt – Class of 1975

 

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