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 March 2019

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Message From the Dean

Dear Distinguished SLIM Alumni,

July 5th will mark my third full year at SLIM. Time really flies because I’m still feeling that I’m new at SLIM and ESU. For the last three years, I’ve been trying to stabilize and grow SLIM with quality, and I’m confident to say it has been successful, although there is always room for improvement. I inherited about 280 MLS students three years ago, and we now expect close to 400 MLS students this fall, which is more than a 30% increase. We have added three new locations: Sioux Falls, Las Vegas and Boise. We’ve also added one tenure track faculty line through the New Program Incentive Plan on campus.

All these accomplishments would not have been possible without your wonderful support. Many of you have met with me in person and contributed to SLIM both financially and spiritually. I greatly appreciate it and look forward to working with you for the future of SLIM. Every faculty member at SLIM is terrific, as you well know, but this year, Dr. Mirah Dow has been highlighted with awards and honors, and we are only half way through 2019. Her recognitions include the ESU Graduate Faculty Mentor Award and the Beta Phi Mu Award by ALA. Congratulations, Dr. Dow!

Our faculty will have a new member this fall: Dr. Bobbie Bushman, who is currently working at the University of North Texas. Dr. Bushman received her doctoral degree from University of Missouri. For our new cohort locations, SLIM has hired Deana Brown as the regional director in Boise and Gracie McDonough as the SLIM coordinator in Las Vegas. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Bushman, Deana and Gracie to SLIM! It is always sad to say goodbye to anyone, but I would like to celebrate Pierina (Perri) Parise’s retirement after 20 years of service to the SLIM Oregon program. Enjoy your retirement, Perri!

As usual, SLIM has had a busy summer so far. Dr. Andrew Smith took eight students to Serbia, and Dr. Brendan Fay took 12 students to Germany from late May to early June. David Willis, our Colorado regional director, will take a dozen students to the ALA annual meeting. For all those trips, students are financially supported by SLIM for ground arrangements through scholarship funds, which you’ve been contributing to. I very much appreciate your generosity and encourage you to continue your support. There are many options you may consider, including making a planned gift. Please, contact Roy Mann on the left side menu, if you have questions or for further details. Also, be sure to check out our full back cover advertisement in the latest issue of American Libraries. I hope to see you at our booth at the ALA annual conference!

Sincerely,

Wooseob Jeong 



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

 

 
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53-Word Short Stories From Faculty and Staff

53-Word Short Story Contest – by Harry Willems

In March at the faculty and staff retreat, I presented a challenge to those attending to write a 53-word short story. The contest was based on Prime Number Magazine's 53-Word Short Story Contest. The instructions are here. Anyone may register and enter the online contest. Three of the regional directors chose to participate: David Willis, Kathie Buckman and Elizabeth Hoffman. The judges were Emily Sanders Jones and I. We have read the stories carefully; they were all written very well.

The winner of the 53-word story contest is David Willis. His tiny novel is below, along with the two runner’s up novels.

David Willis - Winner

The cattle are in the corn, grazing among stalks and stubble. Hunting pairs of hawks perch high over fallow flint. There is a subtle beauty in the palate of March - shades of charcoal, straw, and ochre. I percuss the wheel, sun warming my knee, a perfect road moment as I speed toward reunion.

Elizabeth Hoffman

The Wrong Choice

Flustered and rushed was how I felt before blurting out “Dinner with Chaucer.”

What was I thinking? That was the problem. I should’ve stopped to think. I should’ve studied middle English. I should’ve said Tolkien. Only one wish and I chose this…now we sit in silence. I hope the food is good!

Kathie Buckman

When I was 7, my best friend’s mother was the Junior High Librarian. For some unexpected, and marvelous, reason she gave me a date-due stamp. I went home and put cards and pockets in all my books and created my very own library. Fifty-two years later it is still the Best. Gift. Ever.

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SLIM Reflections: Alumni Share Their Stories

Andy Schafer (MLS 2018)

I was part of the class of 2018. 

Though I’d entered SLIM with a passion for helping people to fulfill their informational needs, I began with little in the way of focus or curricular emphasis. Honestly, I don’t know that I ever found such a focus, but, through the variety of courses offered, I was able to accrue an understanding of the depth and breadth of librarianship and many of the topics it encompasses. Through happenstance (it simply sounded interesting and happened to align with my availability), I enrolled in a summer course on electronic resource management, found that I really enjoyed it and, most importantly, found myself deeply engaged in the issues it involved. Perhaps it was due to the openness that I came to the program with, but I became interested and engaged with nearly every topic that was covered during the course of my SLIM coursework. I was supplied not just with what each topic or issue entailed, but, more importantly, why they mattered and were worthy of being upheld and studied further. Thus, I could see myself pursuing and being happy in almost any library career.

Soon after beginning my first (or possibly second) semester in SLIM, I determined that I needed a specific book on some LIS topic and, through the use of WorldCat, found that it was available in Topeka at the State Library of Kansas. Now, while I vaguely understood that there was a state library (every state must have its own library, I supposed), before this time I had never contemplated actually going there. But I needed the book for a project, so I would have to step out my comfort zone of using either the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library or the William Allen White Library and venture to the capitol building to find the state library. Since I was visiting in the fall, I found the building almost eerily empty. Upon inquiring about the location of the library, I was directed by a docent toward the third floor. As soon as I stepped foot into the room, I was greeted by Donna, the receptionist. She asked me how she could help and I explained my situation. She found the book I needed in the catalog, but, with a wry grin, told me that, since I was a library school student, she expected me to find it for myself. Of course, I was more than happy to do so. Donna then issued me a state library card for checking out physical materials as well as a Kansas Library eCard for digital books and explained the loan periods and library hours to me. I left with a spring in my step. Not only did I have a new library card in my wallet (opening up even more avenues of access and discovery), but I had the feeling that Donna and the state library were on my side, rooting for me.

A couple of years after my initial visit to the state library, when I was nearly done with library school and anxiously looking for a job in the library world, I found that the state library was soliciting applicants to fill the position of Digital Collections Librarian. Since my SLIM coursework had provided me with many of the core competencies required to excel in such a position, I was confident about my ability to get the job. Not only that, but I knew already had at least one fan at the library! Thanks to the confidence and passion that the SLIM program instilled in me coupled with the welcoming manner of the library’s staff, I felt like I was the right person for the job and was able to successfully convince my interviewers of this as well. I’m now part of a team that I love working with, and working toward a mission that I truly believe in. I owe it to SLIM for imparting on me the values of librarianship and to the state library staff for manifesting those values every day and to every patron.

Janet Anderson (MLS 1994)

Thoughts about retirement:

Retirement may be on your mind either because it will quickly be upon you or you wish it was here now.  I retired from Flint Hills Technical College, Emporia, in 2016 after almost 20 years.  My library career started in 1975, however, so in total more than 40 years.  It’s hard for even me to believe.

For those with years ahead, my advice is: be active in the Kansas Library Association (KLA). It is the best way to meet your colleagues, make those connections with the ‘go to’ people we all need and hone your leadership skills.

For those planning to retire in the near future I recommend Pre- & Post- Retirement Tips for Librarians, by Carol Smallwood, 2012.  It is a collection of essays written by librarians on topics such as “How to Retire Graciously,” “Seven Lesson for Adjusting to Retirement,” and many more.

Retirement is a big adjustment and I’ve found time-management to be the biggest hurdle.  The routine I’ve had for years is suddenly gone and finding a new one isn’t always obvious. Journaling can be a good way to keep on track and prove to yourself that you are not wasting away with nothing to show for your time.

There is the lure of going back to work, of course.  That is a decision you will need to carefully weigh.  My year with the State Library of Kansas (SLK) has been interesting and fun, but I am looking forward to clearing my mind of ‘have to’ activities to ‘want to’ activities.

Best wishes to everyone, regardless of where you are on your path.

Jeff Hixon (MLS 1979)

The interval between my application to enroll in what was then ESU’s School of Library Science and my arrival on the scene was fairly short — a matter of weeks. It was strange and unsettling beyond description to find that the world I was entering had turned upside down.

The unthinkable tragedy of Lake Pomona in June of that year had blown everything apart. In this post 9/11 age it might seem exaggerated, but in our innocence we felt surrounded and overcome by a state of shock.

Of the three faculty lost in that catastrophe, I had met only one, SLS Dean Dr. Sarah Reed, whom I remember purely as a beam of sunshine determined to shine upon me. No matter. The sense of loss, of profoundly ungraspable absence, hung over everything. I resisted even trying to comprehend how heavily it weighed on those whose community had been decimated.

In order to keep the wheels of learning and teaching in motion, a number of librarians took time from their already full schedules to step in and fill such gaps in teaching and administration as they could. At the time I took this as a matter of course, but I’ve come to think of it as the best sort of heroism — the kind where the slightest desire to be heroic is deadly to the purpose at hand.

One day, one of these champions was explaining to us something vital, useful, and above all, tediously mundane. In the middle of one pedestrian sentence, her voice broke. Her eyes became shiny, and she swallowed hard. “Please excuse me. Class dismissed.” Next session we went on from there.

I think that whatever bit of knowledge she was at that moment passing along, maybe she had learned it right there in one of those classrooms. Maybe from a colleague still working down the hall, maybe from a voice never to be heard again. There was no separation of the work we were there to do and the realities of life.

And so, my education proceeded. Academically and professionally, it was a steady, deliberate trek. Emotionally, it was a halting, lurching, stumbling struggle. It led those of us who’d come to learn into comradeship unlike any I’ve ever known. That’s a mostly but not entirely positive statement. We had our triumphs, along with our legendary failures. To this day, even classmates who vanished from my life at graduation are a part of me.

Like it or not, the things I absorbed by way of the curriculum have always been secondary to me when I think of my graduate school experience. I don’t mean to minimize my intended education in the least — I’m very grateful for all of it, and not very dissatisfied with the use I have made of it.

It’s just necessary and unavoidable that what I learned about people, how they struggle and cope and prevail on the edge of an abyss, has affected every aspect of my family and personal lives, as well as my professional one.

That what happened that summer had to happen at all still hurts. But it taught me that when people are facing the worst, you seen them at their best. I wouldn’t trade what it put me through for anything.

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School of Library and Information Management News

There were close to 40 people at the SLIM Alumni Gathering at ACRL (Association for College & Research Libraries) 2019 Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. 

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Dr. Loriene Roy, Professor, in the School of Information, University of Texas in Austin, TX, was the April 13, 2019 guest speaker for the Spring Emporia State University SLIM Ph.D. Research Retreat held on the ESU Emporia campus.  Dr. Roy was the first Native American president of the American Library Association when she was inaugurated in 2007. Dr. Roy teaches graduate courses in basic reference, library instruction and information literacy, reader’s advisory, indigenous librarianship, and information in social and cultural context. She has written widely and delivered over 500 formal presentations in venues around the world. ESU SLIM PhD students from Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma participated in a dinner gathering on Friday evening and a seminar all-day on Saturday. Dr. Roy’s presentation Building Your Academic Community: Conferences, Writing, and Research was open via Zoom to the entire SLIM community.

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The alumni event in Salina on Friday, May 3 was very successful.  While only 10 attended, the attendees represented every decade from the 1970's.  A current student, a recent 2016 grad, several from the 90's one from the 80's and a former school librarian graduate from 1972.  We also had one prospective student that was very interested in the program.  

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Congratulations to all of the SLIM Graduates! Emporia SLIM students graduated on May 10th and a reception was held after the ceremony to celebrate the graduates.

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SLIM hosted a Battle of the Books Competition on May 13th with students from Auburn-Washburn, Winfield, McPherson, Wichita (Chisholm Trail, Hyde, and Gammon) school districts. These students read most if not all of the William Allen White Award books for 2018/2019. Dr. Buller and Dean Jeong congratulated the students by giving them a certificate for all of their hard work.

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Student News

Rene M. Burress successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation research on March 19, 2019. She will participate in ESU's May 2019 graduate student graduation ceremony in the William Lindsay White Auditorium, Emporia, KS. The title of her research is Nurturing a democratic planning process: A qualitative case of 2017 Every Student Succeeds Act (2015) requests for school library funding. Dissertation committee members are Dr. Mirah Dow, Chair, ESU, Professor, School of Library and Information Management; Dr. Jeff Muldoon, ESU, Assistant Professor, ESU, School of Business; and Dr. Barbara Martin, Member, Professor of Education, University of Central Missouri. Congratulations Dr. Burress! 

 

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Ashley Todd-Diaz, candidate for the degree Doctor of Philosophy, Library and Information Management, successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on March 25, 2019. Congratulations, Ashley! The title of her dissertation is Archives in libraries: The impact of a parent-child relationship on corporate identity and user perception. Her dissertation committee members are Dr. Wooseob Jeong, Chair, Dean and Professor, Emporia State University, School of Library and Information Management; Dr. Jeffrey Muldoon, Assistant Professor, Emporia State University, School of Business; and Dr. Paul Conway, Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan. Todd-Diaz is Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Albert S. Cook Library, Towson University, Towson, Maryland.

 

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Sarah E. Velasquez, candidate for the degree Doctor of Philosophy, Library and Information Management in the School of Library and Information Management (SLIM), Emporia State University defended her dissertation research proposal in a public presentation on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. Congratulations, Sarah! The draft title of the proposed research is Perceived Credibility of Weight Loss Information on Instagram. Ms. Velasquez is Communications Manager at The University of Kanas Medical Center, Center for TeleMedicine and TeleHealth, Kansas City, KS. Her dissertation committee members are Dr. Jinxuan Ma, Chair, Assistant Professor, Emporia State University, School of Library and Information Management; Dr. Rochelle Rowley, Associate Professor, Emporia State University, Sociology, Anthropology, and Crime and Delinquency Studies; and Dr. Kelsey Sewell, Assistant Professor, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS. 

 

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On Saturday, March 23rd, Dr. Widdersheim took his 804 Organization of Information class to visit the Anderson Memorial Library on the old C of E campus in Emporia and to the Lyon County History Center.

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Congratulations to Amy Currier ('18) and current SLIM student Daniel Agbaji. They had bibliographies they created for Dr. Jim Walther's Fall 2018 LI837 class published in the Library Instruction Round Table's (LIRT) newsletter. You can view their work here.

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Congratulations to current Emporia student, Rachel Newbold, who helped create a display about Great Plains Authors for the Center for Great Plains Studies.
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Becky Jo Dodge, candidate for the degree Doctor of Philosophy, Library and Information Management, successfully defended her dissertation research on March 26, 2019.  The title of her research is Public Health Crisis of Preventable Medical Errors from an Information Science Perspective: A Case of Patient Safety Education in United States Radiation Therapy Programs. Dissertation committee members are Dr. Mirah Dow, Chair, Professor, School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University; Dr. Kenneth Thompson, Professor, Department of Physical Sciences Emporia State University; and Dr. Megan Trad, Ph.D., MSRS,RT(T), Associate Professor, College of Health Professionals, Radiation Therapy Program, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. (Pictured left to right: Thompson, Dow, Dodge, Trad on screen). Ms. Dodge is Program Director of Radiation Therapy and Senior Lecturer, Allied Health, School of Applied Studies, Washburn University, Topeka, KS.

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Carrie A. Boettcher, candidate for the degree Doctor of Philosophy, Library and Information Management, successfully defended her dissertation research on April 4, 2019. The title of her research is Cognitive Authority in Online Social Media during Severe Weather. 

Dissertation committee members are Dr. Wooseob Jeong, Chair, Dean and Professor, School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University; Dr. Jeff Muldoon, Assistant Professor, School of Business, Emporia State University; and Dr. Laurie Bonnici, Associate Professor, College of Communications & Information Studies, University of Alabama. 

Ms. Boettcher is an Instructor in Counselor Education, The Teachers College, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS. 

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SLIM students Abby Adams, Bre Hansen, and Niki Burnett enjoying themselves at ACRL (Association for College & Research Libraries) 2019 Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, in April.

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Current student Allyson Urban presented a poster at ESU’s Research and Creativity Day. The title of her poster was “How the West Was Women: A Literature Review of Women’s Journey West.”

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Current SLIM PhD students Brady Lund and Ting Wang along with Masters student Daniel Agbaji presented their poster, “Comparing Accessibility of Learning Management and Library Management Systems for Students With Disabilities in the United States, China, and Nigeria” at the Research and Creativity Day.  

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 Dr. Widdersheim and Danica White (EM ’19) presented their poster, “The Northeast Kansas Library System: Results for Stage 1 of a Historical Case Study” at ESU’s Research and Creativity Day.

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The Oregon LI804 class, with Dr. Michael Widdersheim, visited the Government Documents section of the Portland State University Library during their second class weekend.

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Kristine M. Woods, candidate for the degree Doctor of Philosophy, Library and Information Management, successfully defended her dissertation research on Wednesday, May 8, 2019. Ms. Woods' dissertation title is Cooperative Catalogers’ Lived Experience Implementing Resource Description and Access: Developing Best Practices for Creating Global Metadata. Dissertation committee members are Dr. Sarah Sutton, Chair, Associate Professor, ESU, School of Library and Information Management; Dr. Mirah Dow, Professor, ESU, School of Library and Information Management; Dr. Sandy Valenti, ESU, Assistant Professor, ESU, School of Library and Information Management; and Dr. Shawne D. Miksa, Associate Professor, Department of Information Science, College of Information, University of North Texas, Denton, TX.

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On March 8, Utah Director D.H. Monobe visited the Utah State Library Division where he met with Merrily Cannon. Merrily is in her first year in the Utah SLIM Cohort after starting in January 2018 and she was hired in Reader's Advisory for the Program for the Blind and Disabled.

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 During the government shutdown earlier this year current student, Kristy Martin, created a “Dependents Shutdown Guide” for the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) as part of her LI802 course with Dr. Jenny Ma. This guide will be included in the Future National Coast Guard Museum's archive in New London, CT once that museum is built. Kristy considers it a privilege to have created something positive from such a challenging situation. Here is a link to the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank Facebook page, where they also shared her guide with their followers.

https://www.facebook.com/sfmfoodbank/

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  Alumni News 

Congratulations to Karyl Johnson (’16) who has begun a new job as a Research Librarian for Research and Worldwide Library Services at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Hunt Library in Daytona Beach, FL.

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SLIM Colorado CO14 alum (graduated December 2015), Gyasi Evans, is the Outreach & Engagement Librarian at the Colorado School of Mines. This May and June, he is going with library staff and faculty to China to participate in a 4-day symposium and workshop that he helped create called the International Library Symposium with China University of Mining & Technology, and Coal University Library Consortia of China, in Xuzhou, China. There, he will offer a presentation on The Benefits and Challenges of Outreach and Engagement in an Academic Library.

After that, he will continue on to Kazakhstan, where he will attend The VIII Annual International Conference on Emerging Global Trends in University Library Development, at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan.

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Congratulations to Charlotte Niteman (CO ‘17), who has just accepted a full-time librarian position at the Ross-Cherry Creek Branch of the Denver Public Library.

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Congratulations to Pete Schreiner (OR '15). He was chosen a 2019 Library Journal “Mover and Shaker” for his work in helping to launch the Virtual Reality Studios at the North Carolina State University Libraries. As NCSU Research Librarian for Design, Schreiner developed a program to include VR devices into their technology lending program and promoted many "academic and entrepreneurial applications for VR/AR technologies." To learn more, click here

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SLIM alums Shawna Gilbert (’17) and Doug Davidson (’18) stopped by our booth at the Oklahoma Library Association Conference in Norman. Both work at Northwest Oklahoma State University.

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Shawna Gilbert (’17) did an excellent job presenting: “Going Digital: Transitioning Library Student Training Programs” at the Oklahoma Library Association Conference in Norman.

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Congratulations to Kelly Hangauer ('17) who wrote an article about an interview with Lauren Hays ('11). Check out the article here.

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SLIM Oregon alumni Linden How (‘17), Amanda Meeks (‘12), and Alyssa Vincent (‘12) had an article published in the March 2019 issue of ACRL's College & Research Libraries News, entitled, “The art of information literacy: New competencies for art, architecture, and design learners."


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Public Library Quarterly recently published a paper by alumnus Paul Hawkins, MLS 1982.  “Change in Libraries:  Directions for the Future” appeared in the March 28, 2019 online issue of the professional journal.  PLQ is addressed to leaders “who believe that change is imperative if public libraries are to fulfill their service missions in the twenty-first century”.  The paper is based on a study and planning process of public library members of the South Central Kansas Library System (SCKLS).  Hawkins is director of the twelve-county regional  system which provides grants, consulting, continuing education and support services to 145 member public, academic, school district and special libraries.

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SLIM alumni Anne Morrow (’05), University of Utah Librarian, presenting a poster at ACRL (Association for College & Research Libraries)-Cleveland.

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Look at all these nice Washburn librarians attending ACRL in Cleveland: Kelly Leahy, Angela Beatie (’15), Sean Bird (’08), Stephen Woody (’16), Andrea Thimesch (’16), Sarah Daniels, and Jean Marshall (’14). Great seeing you all!
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SLIM alum and KU librarian, Brian Moss (’09), presenting a poster at ACRL in Cleveland.

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Dr. Karen Diller (’14), visiting with Dr. Jeong at our booth at ACRL. Thanks for stopping by!

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Dean Jeong with alumna Misty Walker (’14).

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Dean Jeong with alumna Adriane Herrick Juarez ('02) who was the recipient of Utah Library Association Conference 2019 Distinguished Service Award. Herrick Juarez was the former Utah MLS Regional Director and is now the Director of the Park City Library.

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Utah Alumni Dinner on May 16th at It's Tofu: Alcheon Korean Cuisine

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Congratulations to Abby Adams ('19) who received the Support Staff award from Butler Community College and Bethanie O'Dell ('13) who received the Beginning Professional Award from ESU Libraries during the Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section (CULS) conference held at ESU on May 2.

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Sylvia Podwika (‘18), Helena Egbert (‘19) and Lilya Benz (‘19) presented at the Northwest Archivists Conference in Bozeman, MT in May: “A Brave New Hope: Student Workers in the Archives.”

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Congratulations to Rachel Bridgewater ('04) who has been elected Vice-President/President-Elect of the Oregon chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).

 

 

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Faculty & Staff News

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Dr. Sandy Valenti, pictured with President Garrett and Dean Jeong, was recognized at the Employee Service Recognition Program on April 1st, 2019. Congratulations on 10 years with SLIM! 

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 Dr. Mirah Dow attended the 2019 iConference at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.  Dr. Dow and Brady Lund, SLIM Ph.D. student, were invited speakers during the March 31 workshop titled Beyond Representations: Developing Inclusive Workplaces for Faculty and Staff with Disabilities. Presented was research by Dr. Dow, Brady Lund, SLM Ph.D. Student, and William (Kyle) Douthit (2018), MLS, Denver, which is forthcoming in the International Journal of Information, Diversity, and Inclusion.

 

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Dr. Sandy Valenti and Dr. Terri Summey (’17), facilitated a Roundtable Discussion at ACRL (Association for College & Research Libraries) 2019, “Changing Times, Changing Roles: Redefining the Roles of Academic Teaching Librarians Using the ACRL Roles and Strengths of Teaching Librarians”.  Questions focused on awareness of the Roles and Strengths document by academic librarians and the opportunities and challenges faced in assuming the various roles in their daily work life.   

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Emporia Regional Director Kathie Buckman with Dean Jeong promoting our new Las Vegas Cohort at ACRL.

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SLIM alums Dr. Terri Summey (’17) and Bethanie O’Dell (’16) presented a TechConnect session at ACRL 2019 in Cleveland.  Their presentation was entitled, “Bring your LibrARy to Life: Recasting Library Instruction and Outreach Through the Use of BlippAR, a Free Augmented Reality Tool.  They presented how faculty and staff in the ULA are using BlippAR to bring instruction and static displays to life, making them more engaging and interactive.

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Congratulations to Dr. Mirah Dow who was presented with the Graduate Faculty Mentor Award!

 

 

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Dr. Sarah Sutton presented the poster she worked on with Dr. Andrew Smith at ESU’s Research and Creativity Day. Their poster was called “Making It Accessible: Converting a Blended Graduate Course to Full Accessibility.”

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Dr. Terri Summey (’17), Professor, University Libraries and Archives, and Dr. Sandy Valenti, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Management, presented a session entitled, “Pool Manager, Lifeguard, Swim Coach, Swimmer: Keeping Your Head Above Water with the ACRL Framework” at the 2019 LOEX Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Congratulations to Dr. Mirah Dow who has been selected as the 2019 recipient of the American Library Association's Beta Phi Mu Award

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SCALA News:

SCALA recently took a trip to the Lawrence Public Library for a library tour. The students had a great time learning about the library, the community it serves, and special features for patrons. 

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SCALA has conducted a t-shirt fundraiser. The shirts were designed by the 2018-2019 SCALA officers. Interested in buying one? Please contact 2019-2020 president, Camille Abdel-Jawad at cabdelja@g.emporia.edu.

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This semester, SCALA launched Lunch & Learn sessions for students to learn more about different aspects of librarianship as well as tips and tricks to landing the perfect job. While all sessions were conducted by notable SLIM faculty, the final session featured in April was conducted by Brady Lund and Ting Wang, so that SLIM students could learn more about the potential of Ph.D programs.

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SCHOLARSHIP & FUNDRAISER

Be sure to check the SCALA website and Facebook group for new information about our annual tee shirt fundraiser (open to everyone) and ALA scholarship opportunities coming in April!

https://emporiascala.wordpress.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/emporiascala/

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 ALUMNI IN MEMORIUM

 Virginia Monroe- Class of 1976

Lois Adriance – Class of 1966

Shirley Gordon- Class of 1970

Barbara Nabower- Class of 1975

 

This message has been sent to you by the Alumni Association of Emporia State University in partnership with the School of Library & Information Management.

 

ESU School of Library and Information Management