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The Legacy of a Librarian: the story of Noriko Gines Fall 2018 | Department Newsletter
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Ronald E. Day, Department Chair Pnina Fichman, MLS Director Noriko Hara, MIS Director Howard Rosenbaum, Graduate Program Director Robert Montoya, Doctoral Program Director Carol E. B. Choksy, Undergraduate program director STAFF
Department Letter from the Chair...............................................................3 Feature Article - The Legacy of a Librarian: the story of Noriko Gines.............................................................................4 Staff Appreciation..................................................................10 ILS Colloquium Series............................................................11
Students Student Event Photos.............................................................9 ILS Student Accomplishments..............................................12 Fall 2018 Graduates Reveal Future Plans............................14 ILS Student Group Activities.................................................15 Internship Spotlight...............................................................16 Ph.D. Travel Award Recipients................................................17
Michelle Dunbar-Sims, Administrative Assistant & Experiential Learning Coordinator
Faculty
Katie Novak, Department Administrator
Alumni
Corey Tarbell, Director of Graduate Student Services
New Faculty Member..............................................................10 Faculty & Adjunct News.........................................................18
Class Notes............................................................................20 Alumni Receptions................................................................20 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner....................................21
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION & LIBRARY SCIENCE School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON 700 N. Woodlawn Ave. Bloomington, IN 47408 (812) 855-2088 ilsmain@indiana.edu ils.indiana.edu
Newsletter Editors: Katie Novak & Emily Ollis, ILS Social Media Manager and Office Assistant
Front page: Noriko Gines (see feature story on pg. 4) on her 1993-94 UN Peacekeeping Mission to South Africa. Photo credit: James Gines.
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Letter from the Chair This semester has been mostly occupied with working on the Department's reaccreditation report. The current draft report has been submitted to the ALA’s Committee on Accreditation, and we are now working on replies to their questions on it. The current draft report is 287 pages and has over fifty appendixes. The lead team on this of Drs. Howard Rosenbaum and Carol Choksy, with myself, as well, have been working on this since the beginning of the summer, with draft works on all five standards written by the faculty, and with assistance from Emeritus Professor & Former Chair Debora 'Ralf' Shaw, ILS staff Katie Novak and Corey Tarbell and their teams in the ILS office, and help from Jane Lewis and John Tweedie in the SICE financial offices, and others in SICE. The final report will be submitted in mid-January, 2019, and the visit from the Committee on
Ron Day (far right) and Devan Donaldson (second from right) at the 2018 ALA Conference Alumni Reception.
Accreditation’s External Review Panel will occur in early March. But while the reaccreditation process has been going on, classes have been continuing and guest speakers have been coming in and out, thanks to the ILS colloquium and the Rob Kling for Social Informatics talk series. This coming late January we have the pleasure of hosting Paul Edwards, internationally renowned expert and author on the data science of climate change, as our Kaser lecturer. Edwards is a University of Michigan School of Information professor and
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currently the William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Edwards' future visit is generating a lot of excitement in the department and the school. Among the most notable faculty achievements this semester, allow me to focus on two. Assistant Professor Allen Riddell received a three-year National Science foundation grant worth $481,000 for his work on developing methods to defend against techniques used to identify an anonymous author of documents, such as letters, emails, memos, or social media posts, through the analysis of writing style. And, Assistant Professor Robert Montoya was honored with a Fulbright award to rebuild information and library science curriculum in Kosovo. (As I write, Rob is now heavily engaged in Kosovo on this.) These two examples remind us that ILS faculty are involved in important information and library services to the nation and internationally. I’d like to also welcome two faculty members to ILS: Dr. Marika Cifor, who works in archives and who joined us in the Fall semester and is already a hit with our students. And Dr. Kahyun Choi, who will be joining us in January, 2019, having recently defended her Ph.D. dissertation on the topic of music informatics at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Department continues to do well, with a clear identity and a secure place in the school. The faculty are working hard, we have great staff who are working hard, and the students are terrific. We continue to move forward, preparing the next generation of information professionals. We are grateful to all our alumni in previous years for their support, grateful to our institutional partners in our school and around campus, and grateful to our students for their trust in us and in our seventy-plus year old tradition.
Ron Day, ILS Chair
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The Legacy of a Librarian: the story of Noriko Gines This past September, the Department
of Information and Library Science (ILS) was visited by IU alumnus James Gines (BA ’69 MA ’73). He had recently contacted the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SICE) about wanting to establish a scholarship for graduate students in honor of his wife Noriko, who had studied library science at Indiana University Bloomington in the 1970’s. Before his visit, he sent a DVD an impressive compilation of pictures, quotes, and memories made in tribute to Noriko, who had died in the spring of 2017. Entitled “A Lifetime of Happiness,” the video began with their wedding photos, continued with pictures of trips they had taken together, the ski club Noriko had been a part of for decades, visits to her birthplace, meeting with her Mahjong friends or with a group of colleagues at the UN Library, etc. In every photo, Noriko effused vitality, surrounded by family or friends or intently focused on an activity. A pretty remarkable series of events led to her eventual study of librarianship, which she then catalyzed into a thriving, distinguished career. Librarian, influencer, the epitome of a trailblazer, Noriko Gines left behind a legacy that, thanks to the constant devotion of her
husband James, will continue to influence students in years to come.
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his visit, James met with representatives of ILS and SICE’s alumni office in one of the small meeting rooms in the not-yet-a-yearold Luddy Hall, SICE’s
surprised that Noriko had married an American and moved to the U.S.; Noriko was very much known for her enthusiasm, energy, and unfailing curiosity.
newest building. James looked every inch a scholar: wiry thin, a slate-colored beard extending to a few inches above the pen in the pocket of his button-down shirt, also wearing a silicone lung cancer bracelet around his wrist. After a friendly handshake, James began to share about his own journey from Indiana to Japan, Noriko Gines, 1995, New York City. Photo Credit: James Gines. meeting Noriko, and orn in the 1940’s, the first in her their life together. Not hesitant to infuse family to attend college, Noriko (nee humor or provoke a laugh, he responded Kimura) took advantage of every to a question about his Japanese opportunity to expand her horizons, language skills by saying, “I know enough beginning with her decision to to get into trouble.” Noriko had been the attend an extra-curricular English one who had pursued him, he said with a club mentored by a professor at her twinkle in his eye, adding that she would college, Tenri University, in Japan. It have protested that point had she been was at this club that she met James there. He described Noriko as “like a Gines, a Bloomington, Indiana, native small child” when it came to travel and and fellow adventurer at heart. exploration, “the kid” out of her fellow James, then a graduate student retiree friend group. He recalled Noriko’s at Indiana University (IU), was on sister saying that she hadn’t been
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his second trip to Japan at the time of that auspicious meeting in 1971. He had actually been based in Japan for eighteen months during his service in the US Air Force in the 1960’s. And, prior to that, he had participated in the USAF’s initiative to provide training to its’ airmen in Asian languages, which for James was Chinese (while this language training primarily took place at Yale University’s Institute for Far Eastern Languages, the demand was so great that the USAF eventually outsourced to a select few universities, including IU). Following his time in the service, James returned to his hometown to continue working on his bachelor’s degree and later his master’s in Chinese Language and Literature at IU, continuing his connection with Japan by getting a minor in Japanese Language and Literature. During his study, James met a visiting professor from Tenri Univeristy who was participating in an IU-Tenri University exchange program. Not long afterwards, he received a scholarship from the Rotary International Foundation that allowed him to visit that same Tenri professor in Japan, later attending that professor’s English club and meeting Noriko.
Noriko and James fell in love, and, in
the following two-year separation during which James finished his master’s degree in the U.S., they wrote letter after letter to each other. After graduating, James flew back to Japan as part of the very same IU-Tenri Exchange program that had resulted in their first meeting. They got married, and Noriko left her parents
and siblings to move with James to the south-central Indiana college town, Bloomington. Noriko quickly got involved with local programs that celebrated Japanese culture - she and James were charter members of the Hoosier Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, and she
Science (now the Department of Information and Library Science in SICE). She took classes for a year until they ended up moving for James’ new job with William Paterson College’s Japanese program. She was able to transfer to the library science program at Columbia University in New York (the program was discontinued in the early ’90’s) to finish the degree. Beginning her professional career as a librarian at the American Museum of Natural History for a few years, she then got a position at the United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library in 1983. Noriko Gines (left) at the UN Library in 2004. Photo Credit: James Gines. She would end up working got a part-time job working with the there for twenty-six years, helping the East Asian Collections’ librarian at Library during pivotal moments in the IU. Noriko found in librarianship a library science field. career pathway full of opportunities to showcase her strengths in o find out more about Noriko’s organization and in working with career achievements, James information and ideas, her care for recommended Lorraine Waitman, a people combined with her ability friend and former colleague of Noriko’s to problem-solve, synthesize and at the UN Dag Hammarskjold Library interpret data. In 1977, she enrolled (DHL). Lorraine graciously shared her
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memories about Noriko as well as what it was like being a librarian at the DHL throughout the 80’s, 90’s, and 2000’s.
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The Legacy of a Librarian continued from pg. 5 Both she and Noriko had initially been assigned to cataloguing at the DHL, which is how they met: they sat in desks across from each other. According to Lorraine, Noriko came in with traditional cataloguing knowledge from her master’s degree that was extremely helpful for the changes that the DHL was facing at the time. In the 1980’s, cataloguing at the DHL was very much still a labor-intensive process: one person made a written record of the item, and another person would then enter it into a system. Lorraine said that what made it so challenging, besides needing to catalogue unique materials without any existing records, was that the DHL was at first using different cataloguing standards than their librarian colleagues. Even though the sharing of library catalogues began over a decade earlier with systems like RLIN (Research Library Information Network)
and the OCLC (Ohio Colleges Library Center until 1981, when it became the Online Computer Library Center), the UN didn’t participate until Noriko stepped in to help facilitate the change-over. In an interoffice report reviewing the office’s activities in 1990, Noriko was credited for creating the conversion tables which ensured the DHL’s materials could be shared via the RLIN (which merged with the OCLC in 2006). Three years later, the UN went online.
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making her mark on cataloguing, Noriko moved into other areas within the DHL: digitization, systems, and acquisitions. Were it not for the background work of librarians like Noriko and Lorraine, who created an understructure for the data and organized resources, it would be impossible to understand
the complexity of documentation, resource-gathering and knowledge sharing that happens throughout all of the UN’s activities (see http://research. un.org/en/docs). During the last few years before her retirement, Noriko worked with consortium libraries, a group of libraries who partner to share their resources and expertise, on how to acquire and manage electronic information resources. There are currently 355 of these libraries, called UN depository libraries, located in 136 countries and territories, commissioned to ensure access to UN documents and publications worldwide. Noriko’s commitment to the sharing of information wasn’t limited to the confines of her official duties, however. In 1989, she volunteered to go on the UN’s peacekeeping mission to Namibia, the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG). Part of almost 2,000 civilians who participated in setting up registration centers across the nation, Noriko helped facilitate the first democratic elections in Namibia. The elections took place in early November 1989 and saw a ninety-seven percent turnout of registered voters, despite the continuing occupation of South African troops until later Noriko Gines (front center) during her UN Peacekeeping mission to South Africa, 199394. Photo Credit: James Gines.
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that month. These elections resulted in a governing body, a constitution, and, in early 1990, Namibia’s independence. Noriko then participated in another peacekeeping mission which she felt was one of the high points in her career, said Lorraine. In 1993, Noriko went to South Africa as part of the United Nations Observation Mission in South Africa (UNOMSA), one of just a 100-member team which would grow to 3000 in just a few short months. As stated in the UN’s archive of the mission, Noriko and her team “monitored the ability of South Africans of all races to campaign and vote freely and reviewed and analyzed voter education efforts and the use of mass media.” After six months, Noriko briefly returned to the U.S and applied for leave to go back to South Africa for another eight to nine months, getting to witness the end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela, whom she had long admired.
The quintessential traveler, captain
of the UN ski team, and exuberant advocate for attention to detail and efficiency, Noriko was also known for her dedication, for being good at working with people, and for helping her fellow co-workers. After her death, the Outreach Division in the UN Department of Public Information
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Noriko and James Gines in 2013 at a diner in New Jersey. Photo Credit: James Gines
(now the Department of Global Communication), published a tribute to Noriko from her colleagues at the UN, stating that, amongst Noriko’s many achievements, “she mentored many younger staff, who recall her levelheaded advice, kind encouragement, and infinite patience in helping them understand the importance of their work.” This legacy wasn’t over upon her retirement in 2009. She got involved in the “Friends of the Library” at her local public library, collecting and sorting used books, and raising money for the library. James also recruited her to be a member of the heritage society in the community where they lived in New Jersey. He fostered her love for gardening, supported her competitive spirit in Mahjong matches, and went with her on frequent trips back to Japan, where she visited family and had reunions with her undergraduate classmates. While Noriko had been
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at the UN, James moved from his position teaching Japanese to working as a technical information specialist for non-consumer products at Sony Corporation of America. Then, for over twenty years, he worked privately at the intersection of people and information: translating, dealing with documents, and lending support in matters of intellectual property ligation. Together, James and Noriko invested in and encouraged the study of East Asian languages through the establishment of an undergraduate endowed scholarship at IU in the early 1980’s. In the present day, after Noriko’s death, James envisioned a similar endowed scholarship for graduate students to promote the study of librarianship, in Noriko’s honor.
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graduate Tracy Johnson (December, ’18), the inaugural recipient of the Gines Graduate Library Science Scholarship, had also, similar to Noriko, not initially set out to pursue a career as a librarian. She had always loved reading, which was why she pursued an undergraduate degree in English. After earning her bachelor’s, she found herself evaluating her career choices, finally connecting a passion for books with the places and people that best showcase
Returning to her hometown of Fremont, IN after her first semester of classes, she inquired at the small town’s public library to see if they needed any help. The following summer she returned to intern there, and, after graduating, she was hired as their Young Adult and Adult Services Librarian.
the ideas and ideals she had discovered in pages and within herself. After enrolling in IU Bloomington’s master of library science program in Spring
on her, Tracy said she likely would not have had the freedom to take a position, such as she now has, in a location with limited resources. Besides greater financial stability, the scholarship enabled her to launch into the library profession with the mental freedom to envision possibilities for her future. In her current role, her first librarian position, she often plans programs for youth and adults by looking back to what she wishes she might have had access to before college and graduate school. While planning activities to engage people in her rural community, Tracy has found a need for flexibility, reflection, and recalibrating – finding through trial and error what works best for her community and what it needs most. She views her supervisor as a source of inspiration, guiding her in how to approach being a librarian while giving her the tools to succeed. To Tracy, the legacy of a librarian is that of setting the tone for every user of the library, forging an enriching experience filled with
Tracy Johnson, the Gines Graduate Library Scholarship Recipient for 2018-19.
2017, she said she began to understand the diversity of positions available for librarians. She soon became involved in the Progressive Librarians Guild and the Special Libraries Association student groups and found like-mindedness in her fellow students, who also expressed dreams about making an impact.
positive interactions that hopefully propels them into being a lifelong learner. Regarding her own career prospects and the field of librarianship in general, she says, “You are your own boundaries.”
Upon being asked what effect receiving the Gines scholarship had
James Gines by the Donor Hall of Fame in the Indiana Memorial Union, 2018.
At the end of the interview for this
article, James brought out a framed picture of Noriko, setting it upon the table, doing the same later with the group of students with whom he shared lunch. “I’m glad you got to meet her,” he said, after telling of her final years battling illness. They had found out about the cancer during a particularly unforgettable time in New Jersey during Hurricane Sandy while Noriko was undergoing surgery. One of the small percentage of non-tobacco-users that get lung
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cancer, Noriko nonetheless approached life as she always had. Friends and family members described with amazement her enduring pluck, how she continued to enjoy her activities and care for those in her expansive social circle. And now, ever afterward, she will carry forward her impact through James’ creation of the Gines Graduate Library Science Scholarship – empowering future students to emulate what friend Lorraine said about Noriko, “If there was a trail that hadn’t been done, she wanted to do it.” -by Katie Novak
To learn more about how you can leave a legacy by supporting our students, visit: www.sice.indiana.edu.
Thanks to all of the generous donors who support our department & students!
Right: Noriko Gines at the 2014 Valley Health System Celebration of Life. Photo Credit: James Gines.
ILS Student Events
Above: 2nd year student Mallory Nygard meets new ILS students interested in ILS student groups at the SICE Student Involvement Fair. Top right: Joel Silver (right) and ILS students dish up good eats at the ILS Fall Reception at the Farm Bloomington restaurant. Bottom right: Adjunct Lecturer Kate Messing Wehner (top center) and Dr. Noriko Hara (far right) talk to new MIS students at ILS' Fall Orientation.
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Dr. Kahyun Choi In spring 2019, Kahyun Choi will be joining ILS as an assistant professor. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Before then, she worked as a software engineer at Naver, a search engine company in Korea. Her dissertation research examined ways of using computational methods to understand song lyrics with the help of crowdsourced interpretations. Other topics of research have included a computational analysis of the Music Library Association Mailing archive, music mood/genre/subject metadata enrichment using machine learning, an informetric study of the International Society of Music Information Retrieval conference, cross-cultural studies of K-Pop, and evaluation frameworks of Music Information Retrieval systems. Her work has been published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), the IEEE/ACM Joint Conference in Digital Libraries (JCDL), the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), and the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). In 2019, she will be teaching Database Design and next year she will be offering a special topics seminar about music information retrieval.
Fun facts about Kahyun:
• She used to be a wedding singer for her friends’ weddings. • Her band opened for her favorite singersongwriter Ji Yeon Son in 2006 (but never released their own albums).
Staff Appreciation Name: Ree Palmer Job Title: Associate Director, Alumni Relations & Stewardship How many years have you worked with SICE & IU? 6 months at SICE, 2.5 years at IU (as a grad student before working full time) In what capacity do you work with ILS? Most of my work with ILS is with planning alumni events, but I also assist with a few elements of the scholarship processes for ILS.
What are some current projects/tasks/ relationship-building you are working on? I’m currently working on some gift proposals, some alumni events for next semester, and creating some new stewardship pieces for donors. What part of your job is most rewarding for you? I really enjoy getting to work with the School’s scholarship fundraising and processes! I also love getting to build relationships with alumni and friends of IU. Any fun facts about yourself that you’d like to share? I adopted a 2-year old cat named Cleo last month! Hobbies include hiking, coffee, and baking.
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ILS Colloquium Series: Fall 2018 The Department of Information and Library Science would like to thank all of the distinguished lecturers who presented for the Fall 2018 Colloquium Series. We were pleased to host speakers who presented broad topics that represent the current state of research in Information and Library Science. Thank you to all of the hosts, sponsors, faculty, and students who spent time with the guest speakers and attended the presentations. August 31, 2018, Kyle Roberts: “Research
spoke in depth about how virtual library systems have made complicated analog records easily searchable and accessible for analysis. Dr. Roberts expanded on his question of how information professionals can move beyond the creation of digital archives and databases to write new, argumentdriven histories of libraries. After his presentation, Dr. Roberts met a few students for more discussion of his work.
at Western University in London, Ontario. Before her lecture, she was treated to a tour of the Lilly Library, where she was able to look at historical documents that Thomas Jefferson had hand-edited. Dr. Adler had lunch with students who were interested in knowledge organization. During her presentation, she talked about Jefferson’s book classification system, alongside his writings and the grids, ledgers, and devices he used to record activities. She addressed Jefferson’s history of knowledge organization by examining the History,
and Writing Library History in the Digital Age” In August, Dr. Kyle Roberts, Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago, came to speak about the digital platforms, sources, and tools that have changed the way libraries are studied over the past few decades. During his talk, entitled, “Research and Writing Library History in the Digital Age,” he
September 14, 2018, Melissa Adler: “A peculiar satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson’s disciplinary imagination and the mastery of subjects” In September, alongside the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, we were pleased to co-host Dr. Melissa Adler. Dr. Adler is an Assistant Professor of Information and Media Studies
Moral Philosophy, and Geography sections of his classification system. September 28, 2018, Carol Tenopir: “Data Sharing and Re-Use: Barriers and Incentives” Also in September, we hosted Dr. Carol Tenopir, who came to present her findings on open data policies introduced by governments, funders, and publishers over the past decade. Dr. Tenopir had lunch with students who were able to ask her about her research on perceived barriers, current data practices of scientists, and academic library research. In her presentation, she described a better understanding of the attitudes toward data sharing among scientists and assistance in good data management practices that help to alleviate barriers and improve data. Dr. Tenopir is a Chancellor’s Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Dr. Melissa Adler (left) looking at one of Thomas Jefferson's books in the Lilly Library.
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ILS Student Achievements • Brian Watson - Watson recently had a book chapter accepted for publication in Literature's Kinkiest Corners with Bobby Derie on the history of Rule 34 and Queer Fanfiction. He also had a book chapter accepted on erotic book clubs and their manuscripts accepted for publication next year in the Edinburgh History of Reading, edited by Jonathan Rose and Merry Hammond. The AskHistorians Podcast Watson cohosts hit a million downloads and 30,000 active listeners. The AskHistorians Podcast features members of Reddit's AskHistorians community, as well as published academics, and experts for long-form 60-90 minute in-depth conversations about a topic of their research. Additionally, a thread in AskHistorians where the expert swings by to answer follow-up questions accompanies each podcast episode. Watson also accepted the ALA Student-to-Staff Fellowship offered by the ALA-Student Chapter here. The Student-toStaff Program provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for 40 students engaged in ALA Student Chapters both the opportunity to work behind-the-scenes with ALA staff at each ALA Annual Conference and to attend meetings, programs, and other Annual Conference events in their spare time. • Casey Burgess and Alica Stephens - Music library instruction interns Burgess and Stephens planned, taught, or otherwise participated in a combined 24 instruction sessions during Fall 2018 for the Jacobs School of Music Information Fluency program. In addition, they both held more than 25 individual student research consultations, as well as graded and assessed a combined 50 assignments. • Ellen Ogihara - Music specialization student Ellen Ogihara received two awards from the Music Library Association: the Diversity Scholarship, and the Kevin Freeman Travel Grant. The Kevin Freeman Travel Grant is intended to support travel and hotel expenses to attend the Music Library Association annual meeting. Few new members of the music library profession receive adequate funding from their institutions to attend and participate in the highly-valued annual meetings of the Music Library Association, their primary professional organization. The Kevin Freeman Travel Grant enables MLA to assist its newer members by supporting and encouraging their participation in the Association's national meeting. • Ryan Johnson and Will Scharfenberger Music specialization students Ryan Johnson and Will
Scharfenberger collaborated with several departments to organize and lead the Diversity Presentation and Panel event on November 15 in Luddy Hall. Their leadership and attention to detail were crucial to the success of the event. Scharfenberger has also accepted the position of Public Services Supervisor at the Cook Music Library. He holds a Bachelor of Musical Arts from DePauw University and is currently working on his Masters of Library Science and a Masters in Information Science at IU. Scharfenberger has served in the Cook Music Library as a technical services assistant, digitizer and public services assistant. • Sarah Ward - Ward is the Interim Subject Liaison for anthropology, folklore, and sociology. She is currently enrolled in the Master of Library Science/Master of Arts in Musicology dual degree program at IU. She received her BA in Religion and Anthropology from Emory University. While at IU she has worked on several library projects including digitizing Russian Maps in GIMMS, cataloging 78s and LPs at the Archives of Traditional Music, assessing the Cook Music Library’s Latin American imprints, and working as a member of the SMARTeam in MDPI. Before coming to Bloomington, she coordinated daily operations for the Marian K. Heilbrun Music and Media Library at Emory University. • Emily Baumgart and Anna Hinkley - A collaborative effort by musicology and library science students Emily Baumgart and Anna Hinkley culminated in a successful First Thursday event as part of the Latin American Music Center’s
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participation in this year’s Mexico Remixed theme for the third annual Global Arts and Humanities Festival. Together, Baumgart and Hinkley designed a poster version of a personality quiz: “What genre of Mexican music are YOU?” inspired by popular internet personality quizzes. Once a player determined what genre matched their personality, they could learn more about it in a complimentary educational poster, “The Sounds of México.” The students researched, wrote the text, and designed the educational poster in order to showcase ten of Mexico’s musical genres. It was accompanied by a chance to listen to some of Mexico’s music using playlists compiled by the students and their supervisor, Emma Dederick, Librarian for the Latin American Music Center. Anna Hinkley is a dual-degree student in Musicology and Library Science. Besides her contributing efforts to the promotion of Latin American music, she participated in the competitive 2018 Archival Fellows Program at Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies. There, she and two other fellows assisted in the processing of the Bill Hughes Collection as well as the announcement of Rutgers’ acquisition of the Count Basie Collection. Emily Baumgart is simultaneously pursuing a PhD in Musicology and a Master’s degree in Library Science. A graduate of Michigan State’s musicology and music theory programs, she recently completed internships with the Lilly Library and the Archives of African American Music and Culture. During these internships, she created catalog records for Lilly’s libretti and music scores, as well as several EAD finding aids for the AAAMC’s collections. • Samantha Hyde - Hyde is a first-year graduate student in ILS. For the 18-19 academic year, she was awarded the Christopher Hoy/ ERT Scholarship from the American Library Association. On
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Anna Hinkley with Mexico Remixed First Thursday participants.
an annual basis, ALA selects a handful of MLIS students to receive scholarships. Some are tied specifically to career trajectories such as public librarianship, while others are more general. The Christopher Hoy/ERT Scholarship is a general scholarship for MLIS students. This scholarship award from ALA helped to secure Hyde’s path in pursuing a graduate degree. Hyde notes that, “Without such assistance, I would not have felt as comfortable or confident in returning to school after 6 years in the field. To be acknowledged by ALA for my interests in public librarianship as well as international librarianship and archival studies in West African communities before even beginning my MLIS was very exciting and further confirmed for me that this is the best path for me at this time!” She is excited to attend the ALA conference this summer and looks forward to being a member for years to come. The resources ALA provides are exceptional, and Hyde plans on using them throughout her career.
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Fall 2018 Graduates Reveal Future Plans Congratulations, Graduates! Elli E. Bourlai - Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science Bourlai has been working as a Computational Linguist/ Data Analysis Consultant at Megaputer Intelligence Inc. since April 2018. Lane Bowman - Master of Information Science Lane was recently promoted to Lead Business Analyst at UITS where he will continue to improve identity and access services at IU. Mahaley Evans - Dual MA/MLS with East European History, specialization in Archives and Records Management Evans is pursuing work in museum archives and special collections in the Midwest. Tracy Johnson - Master of Library Science Johnson recently accepted a position as a Young Adult and Adult Services Librarian at the Fremont Public Library in Fremont, IN.
Megan Litkenhous - Master of Information Science with Specialization in Data Science Litkenhous recently accepted a position with IU Health as a Clinical Data Analyst in Indianapolis. Other graduates: Kelsey Abernathy, Annise Blanchard, Kristen Bright, Yingxin Chang, William Koester, Jeneva Sumner, Veronika Trotter, Jennifer Wise, Nicholas Wyant, and Yifu Zhang.
ILS students celebrate the end of the semester at an ILS winter social in the RKCSI lounge.
ILS Fall Colloquium, continued from pg. 11 October 12, 2018, Jeff Nickerson: “Collective Creativity: How crowds and communities explore design space” In October, the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics and the Data Science program jointly hosted Dr. Jeffery V. Nickerson. Dr. Nickerson is the Associate Dean of Research in the School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology. Before his lecture,
Nickerson met with faculty members for meals and had individual meetings with students interested in his work. During his presentation, Dr. Nickerson spoke about online communities and crowds successfully engaging in creative activity by exploring the spaces of possible designs. He analyzed Thingiverse, Scratch, and Wikipedia to observe online communities and experiments with crowds. After his lecture, Dr. Nickerson spent time with students and faculty, addressing the end goal of his research: catalyzing collective creativity.
October 19, 2018, Cal Lee: “All Bits Considered: Managing Representations at Numerous Levels” Later in October, ILS was pleased to host Dr. Christopher (Cal) Lee. As Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Dr. Lee conducted research on libraries, archives, and museums that have unprecedented opportunities to acquire and preserve traces of human and associated machine activity through access to both consciously created electronic records and various inscriptions that are the result of interactions with a computer.
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ILS Student Group Activities Special Libraries Association - Student Group (SLA-SG) Special Libraries Association - Student Group had two events and a call-out meeting this semester. At the SLA-SG call-out meeting, some students expressed interest in learning how to organize workshops or educational presentations in a library setting. Along with the American Libraries Association - Student Chapter (ALA-SC), they arranged a workshop with Maureen Maryanski, where Maryanski taught them how she runs education initiatives and events for special collections. Maryanski was able to walk SLA-SG through her background at both the Dance Heritage Coalition and the New York Historical Society, which she compared (in terms of collections, positions, and structures) with her current job at the Lilly Library. She explained how the Lilly handles group education events of various sizes and gave the group recommendations for different procedures and activities. Maryanski generously provided helpful tips and suggestions for SLA-SG as future ILS grads in an open, casual environment. They also held a Fall-Fest, where the group celebrated the season by painting pumpkins (which they then used to decorate the ILS office).
Society of Art Librarianship Students (SALS) The Society of Art Librarianship Students had another busy semester at IU. The group had an opening meeting, followed quickly by the ARLIS/NA Midstates conference in Indianapolis, which members attended. In November, they had a talk on art librarianship and Zines via Skype with Jill Luedke, the art librarian at Temple University. They had one more event for the fall semester: Crafts and Critical Librarianship, where they watched a presentation from the 2017 Fall Virtual Conference: Critical Librarianship in the Arts by Jennifer Feretti (Digital Initiatives Librarian, Maryland Institute, College of Art) and made holiday cards and other crafts. SALS President, Alica Stephens, during the Crafts and Critical Librarianship presentation.
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Upper Left: SLA-SG members host Maureen Maryanski. Lower Left: SLA-SG painted pumpkins for ILS.
Internship Spotlight: Jennifer Hoops This fall, ILS graduate student Jennifer Hoops developed digital timelines for the IU East Campus Library Women of Valor: Interfaith Actions for Social Justice project. She utilized Northwestern University's open source Knight Lab software to develop digital scholarship, such as interactive timelines and time lapse images, for many of the women featured in Women of Valor’s Herstory Camp. Over the course of the project, she developed 25 interactive timelines for a wide variety of women: early Quaker colonial advocates for religious equality, abolitionists and surgeons who fought to end slavery during the Civil War, progressive advocates for immigrant and labor reform during the Industrial Era, the founders of the modern feminist movement, and even women who are shattering barriers and fighting for equality in U.S. politics today. Throughout this internship, Hoops was given the chance to re-establish skills from her undergraduate experience, particularly
historical primary source research and women's studies. Open source software like Knight Lab introduced her to basic digital humanities concepts in a way that was engaging and relevant to her interests, past and present. Developing timelines and time lapse comparisons via Knight Lab helped her learn HTML, CSS, and even some JavaScript, while also ensuring visual quality with Adobe Creative Suite. Hoops applied her course-taught knowledge of copyright to practical situations in order to judge fair use situations
and find images that would be sustainable and accessible. Even doing historical research, which she believed her undergraduate degree in history had allowed her mastery over, proved to provide unexpected challenges, as she was required to utilize nontraditional sources and archives to tell the untold
ILS Fall Colloquium, continued from pg. 14 At his lecture, Dr. Lee presented his research and discussed how digital materials can be considered and encountered at multiple levels of representation, ranging from aggregations of records to bits physically inscribed on a storage medium. Dr. Lee met with students and faculty members to further discuss the strategies that can aid libraries, archives, and museums in their work by advancing fundamental principles.
October 26, 2018, Dr. Mohammad Jarrahi: “Information practices and sociotechnical dynamics of mobile knowledge work� Also in October, the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics hosted Dr. Mohammad Jarrahi, Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Jarrahi met with students and faculty members before his presentation on how
the knowledge workforce is changing. During his presentation, he focused on how information professionals exert agency by fashioning multiple information technologies into functioning digital assemblages and the paradoxical outcomes of IT adoption. The following day before his flight home, Dr. Jarrahi was the keynote speaker at the ILS Doctoral Research Forum.
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stories of incredible women throughout American history. Hoops learned how to work within the specifications of a grant while bringing her unique outlook and expertise to the project. Of her internship, Hoops states, "I was drawn to this internship because it highlighted the stories of significant women who shaped history but are often neglected by traditional scholarship. By featuring these lives, as well as ensuring that they are presented in an accessible, user-friendly, and visually dynamic format, I hoped to help share these stories with a wider audience and encourage the young women of today to make a difference in our world. Ultimately, my work with IU East gave me invaluable experience in the creation of meaningful, instructive digital scholarship. This internship helped me gain confidence in my technical and research skills
Some of the Women of Valor Jennifer researched: Left: Frances Harper Bottom Left: Gloria Anzaldua Bottom Right: Jane Addams
while engaging in work I am personally and professionally passionate about." Hoops wishes to give a huge thanks to Frances Yates for being a wonderful supervisor and mentor throughout the internship process, and she recommends other students check out internships at IU East. To check out her work, visit: http://iue.libguides.com/WomenofValor/voices or read about her experience and those of other ILS interns at https:// ilsinternlife.sice.indiana.edu.
Ph.D. Travel Award Recipients Pei-Ying Chen received the ILS Doctoral Research Forum award for her paper, “The narrative structure as a citation context in data papers: A preliminary analysis of Scientific Data.” Wei-Chu Chen received the Ph.D. Student Travel Award to present at the 21st ACM Conference on ComputerSupported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Ashley Dainas received the RKCSI Travel Award and the Ph.D. Student Travel award to present original research at the 4th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA). Shawn Martin won top prize in the ILS
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Doctoral Research Forum for his paper, “Topic Modeling and Textual Analysis of American Scientific Journals, 1818 – 1922.” Chase McCoy received the RKCSI Travel Award and the Ph.D. Student Travel award to participate on a panel at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting 2018 titled “Contexts, Critiques, and Consequences: A Discussion About Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics” and presented on a paper that was accepted pending revisions for the journal Learning, Media, and Technology. Ewa Zegler-Poleska and Jennifer St. Germain received the ILS Doctoral
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Research Forum award for their paper (with Nicholas Plank from Informatics) “3D modeling and data preservation activities at Indiana University: Preliminary results of a study of digital curation strategies and technologies employed by academic research groups.” Chenwei Zhang received the Ph.D. Student Travel Award to present her poster, “What role do bitcoins play in the darknet market? A preliminary study,” at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting 2018.
ILS Faculty and Adjunt News Sarah Carter
Carter, Art, Architecture, and Design Librarian and Assistant Professor, has published two articles this year: • Sarah Carter and Alex O’Keefe. (2018) Revealing Invisible Collections: Implementing the ARLIS/NA Artists’ Books Thesaurus to Provide Online Access. Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 37 (2), 159-175. • Carter, S., Koopmans, H., & Whiteside, A. (2018). Crossing the Studio Art Threshold: Information Literacy and Creative Populations. Communications in Information Literacy, 12 (1), 36-55.
Michael Courtney Courtney is the faculty advisor for Books and Beyond, a service/ experiential learning project that is part of IU Corps under the Provost's Office. While the project principally focuses on increasing critical literacy skills and developing cross-cultural teaching & learning skills, Courtney has coordinated and directed another aspect of the project in building a library at partner schools in Rwanda. In Spring and Summer of 2015, he supervised an MLS student intern who subsequently went to Rwanda and began some initial work on the library project. During his summer 2018 trip, Courtney worked with local students (and Indiana University undergraduate and graduate students) and taught several classes to local teachers about library and information science and information literacy, in addition to assessment and other work on the library. He is currently developing an internship opportunity for interested MLS students to continue this diverse work as the project moves toward short and long-term goals of opening and maintaining the library.
Robert D. Montoya
Montoya was invited to the 2nd Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference, which is a closed international workshop group organized by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. The conference establishes a viable mechanism for the international community to agree on priorities and design and deliver an interconnected information infrastructure for all aspects of biodiversity, all via collaborative distributed efforts. GBIC2 convened a broad group of invited stakeholders to discuss how an international coordination mechanism for biodiversity informatics could operate and how it could accelerate delivery of the linked and open global biodiversity data infrastructure to the benefit of science and society.
John Walsh
• Walsh spent a week conducting research at the British Library in London for a digital edition of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s Erechtheus manuscript (Ashley MS 5263). He then went from London to the University of Potsdam in Germany where he co-chaired a workshop on digital annotation of comic books and graphic novels. The workshop had about twenty participants engaged in digital
Michelle Hahn Hahn, Sound Recordings Cataloger at the William & Gayle Cook Music Library, was elected to the position of Vice Chair/ChairElect for the Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG).
Richard Higgins
Higgins has accepted the position of Programmer/Analyst at IU, which began in November of 2018. Higgins came to this position after having served as Open Access Publishing and Repository Manager. He has been with IU libraries since 2015. He received his BA in World Literatures from the University of California; an MA in Literatures in English and PhD in English, and an MIS from IU. Department of Information & Library Science
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John Walsh, continued scholarship on comics and graphic novels. The workshop concluded with planning for future work to standardize various approaches to annotation of comics. Working with ILS Ph.D. student Shawn Martin and Carey Beam, IU Librarian and Director of the Wylie House Museum, Walsh submitted an IU Bicentennial course development grant proposal to develop a version of ILS Z652 Digital Libraries focused on IU history and digitization of materials in IU repositories such as the Wylie House Museum. • Walsh, J. A., Martin, S., and St. Germain, J. “‘The Spider’s Web’: An analysis of fan mail from Amazing Spider-Man, 1963–1995.” Empirical Comics Research: Digital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods. Ed. Jochen Laubrock, Janina Wildfeuer, and Alexander Dunst. New York: Dr. John Walsh at Routledge, 2018: 62-84. Comic• Walsh, J. A. (2018). “Katy, Millie, Misty, and Con in me: Participatory culture in teen fashion and San Diego, CA. humor comics.” Comics Studies Society Annual Conference, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, August 9-11, 2018. • Walsh, J. A. (2018). “Trina, Misty, and Millie: Participatory culture in Marvel's humor and romance comics.” Paper presented at the Comics Arts Conference / Comic-Con International, San Diego, CA, July 21, 2018. • Walsh, J. A. (2018). “Annotation of the Comic Book
Paratext.” Invited to serve as Co-Director and give presentation at workshop on Comics Annotation: Designing Common Frameworks for Empirical Research, University of Potsdam, Germany, June 18-19, 2018.
ILS Ph.D. students and faculty at this year's Doctoral Research Forum.
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Summer and Fall 2018 Receptions American Libraries Association (ALA) ALA's Annual Conference was on June 22-25 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Over 80 alumni stopped by the Department’s booth to chat with students, faculty, and staff. The reception for the conference was held on June 24th, at which time the Distinguished Alumni Award was presented to Helen Tibbo (’83 MLS).
American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) The 110th AALL Annual Conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland from July 14-17; 30 attended the Department's reception.
Indiana Library Federation (ILF) The 2018 ILF Conference met from November 12-14 in Indianapolis, Indiana. ILS and IUPUI co-hosted a trivia night with 35 attendees from Indiana University and around 60 total guests in attendance.
Alumni Class Notes 1970’s Anne Beversdorf (’74 MLS) Beversdorf was awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who, where she has been listed for 30 years. Beversdorf is a Vedic and Western Astrologer, and she is board member and librarian for the Alexandria iBase Project Astrology Catalog, a nonprofit WorldCat-like catalog for collections of professional astrological materials. She currently lives in Austin, Texas,
Michele Reiling McCaffrey (’74 MLS) After 27 years as Reference and Instruction Librarian at Saint Michael’s College’s Durick Library in Vermont, Reiling McCaffrey retired and moved back to Bloomington with her husband, Tom McCaffrey. She looks forward to hearing from classmates living in the area!
where she practices astrology.
Anne Fliotsos (’89 MLS) Fliotsos has written her 5th book which will be published this summer: New Directions in Teaching Theatre Arts (Palgrave).
Patrick Callahan (’79 MLS) Callahan is retiring on Dec. 31, 2018, after 40 years in the profession. Since 1999, he has been the Library Director at Purchase College, SUNY. Previously, he worked at St. John’s University, Ball State University, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Center for Research Libraries, and the Library of Congress. Callahan served as the inaugural chair of the SUNY Libraries Consortium, chaired the SUNY Council of Library Directors, and was twice chair of the WALDO consortium, as well as serving on numerous ALA committees.
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Richard McLelland (’85 MLS) McLelland has accepted the position of Circulation Supervisor in Access Services in the IU Libraries. He has been with the IU Libraries since 2014. He joined the staff of Document Delivery Services as a DDS Supervisor. Prior to coming to the Libraries, McLelland was a branch manager with the Vodak East Side Library. Besides his MLS, he holds BA in Psychology from IU.
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2018 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient
1990’s Paula Brehm-Heeger (’95 MLS) Brehm-Heeger has been named the director of the Cincinnati Public Library. Jasmine Cieszynski (’99 MLS) Cieszynski has been the Instructional Services & Digital Initiatives Librarian at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, IL since 2003. Mary R. Voors (’93 MLS) Voors is the current blog manager for the official blog of ALA’s Association for Library Service to Children, which is working to fulfill the mission of “providing a venue for coverage of time sensitive news in children’s librarianship, current issues in the field, and programs, conferences, initiatives, resources, and activities of interest to ALSC members, and those interested in children’s librarianship.” William Welburn (’91 PhD) Welburn became the Vice President for Inclusive Excellence, Marquette University, in October 2018.
2000’s Tina Baich (’06 MLS/MA History) Baich has been appointed IUPUI University Library Associate Dean for Collections. Her portfolio as Associate Dean includes Acquisitions, Bibliographic & Metadata Services, Resource Sharing & Delivery Services, and Special Collections & Archives. In addition to her appointment as Associate Dean for Collections, Baich currently holds a part-time appointment with the IUPUI Office of Academic Affairs as Director of Faculty Mentoring. She is a recipient of the ALA’s Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished Interlibrary Loan Librarian and IU’s W. George Pinnell Award for Outstanding Service. Jennifer Brosek (’09 MLS) Brosek started in August 2018 as Coordinator of Resource Acquisition & Management (Head of Technical Services) at Appalachian State University, in Boone, NC.
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Helen Tibbo has been honored with the 41st Distinguished Alumni Award from the Information and Library Science program at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SICE). Tibbo, a 1983 graduate of the thenIU School of Library and Information Science, is currently the Director of the Professional Science Master’s Degree in Digital Curation and an Alumni Distinguished Professor for the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tibbo was nominated by Devan Donaldson, an assistant professor of information science at SICE. “I think Helen’s accomplishments really speak for themselves,” Donaldson said. “Over the past 30 years, Helen has pioneered research in archival science and digital curation. Her accomplishments are truly worthy of honor and recognition. My hope is that I can carry on the legacy she began at IU by training students who are as quick-witted, thorough, and able to contribute to the development of the ILS field as her.” Below: Tibbo & Ron Day at the ALA Reception.
Alumni Class Notes 2000’s Jennifer Crowder Daugherty (’07 MLS) In April of this year, Crowder Daugherty became the Head of the North Carolina Collection at East Carolina University. Angela Dresselhaus (’09 MLS) Dresselhaus will be the 2019 NASIG President. NASIG is an independent organization working to advance and transform the management of information resources. Their ultimate goal is to facilitate and improve the distribution, acquisition, and long-term accessibility of information resources in all formats and business models. Kelly Evans (‘04 MLS) Evans is an Associate Professor as of 2017 at Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA. Evans was elected as Faculty Organization Vice President-President Elect 2018. Wendy Hardenberg (’08 MA/MLS) Hardenberg will be taking her first sabbatical from March 1-August 31, 2019, to work on various literary translation activities. Mandy L. Havert (’07 MLS) Havert got two chapters published in support of work with graduate student populations: “From Mop Closets to Sunny Spaces: Multifaceted Data Collection in Graduate Workspace Design,” with Jessica N. Kayongo and Jonathan D. Schwarz, in Transforming Libraries to Serve Graduate Students. ACRL Publishing. October 2018., and “Building Boot Camp Success: Graduate Dissertation and Thesis Programs at the University of Notre Dame,” in Successful Campus Outreach Programs and Activities for Academic Libraries. Rowman & Littlefield. September 2018. She gave a presentation at ALA Annual Meeting 2018 for ACRL: “Be Your Own Mentor: Take Control of Your Professional Development.” ACRL Workshop, ALA Annual Meeting 2018, New Orleans, June 24, 2018.
Monica Turner Kirkwood (’03 MLS) Kirkwood has been appointed as Disability Librarian maternity cover from Sept 2018 - Sept 2019 at University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Monica started on September 17th and coordinates support provided to disabled readers across the Bodleian Libraries. She also manages the Accessible Resources Acquisition & Creation Unit (ARACU), providing accessible copies of materials for teaching and research. Brad Matthies (’01 MLS) Matthies has been a Librarian at Butler University with the rank of Associate Director for 11 years. He was Library Director at Casper College for 6 years, and he was recently appointed as the Associate Dean of Libraries at Gonzaga University. Courtney McDonald (’00 MLS) McDonald recently became the Colorado University, Boulder Learner Experience & Engagement Librarian. In this position, she focuses on user experience research with special attention to arts & sciences undergraduates. James Rodgers (‘09 MLS) Rodgers joined the Indiana University, Kokomo Library on May 1 as the new Technical Services Librarian. He previously worked at the University of Memphis, where he served as Acquisitions Librarian. He began his library career as Acquisitions Coordinator in Technical Services at the Herman B Wells Library, in Bloomington, IN in 2005, where he subsequently worked as Accounting Associate for almost two years before leaving IU for his first faculty position at Mississippi State University Libraries. Besides his M.L.S., he also has a M.A. in Musicology from IU, and a B.M. in Renaissance Lute Performance from Clayton State College.
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Mary Snyder Broussard (’06 MLS) Snyder Broussard published a book entitled Reading, Research, and Writing: Teaching Information Literacy with Process-Based Research Assignments with ACRL in the summer of 2017. She recently joined the ACRL Immersion teaching faculty and taught her first immersion program this past summer.
Amy Koester (’11 MLS) Koester was promoted to the role of Learning Experiences Manager at Skokie Public Library this summer, where she leads a department of 17 that oversees all public programming and learning spaces in the library. She has worked at Skokie since August 2014.
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Amy Minix (’18 MLS) Minix has accepted the Visiting Sciences Librarian position at IU Libraries. She worked as a copyright researcher for MDPI, as
Laura Bell (’18 MLS) Bell worked after graduation in a temporary position at the Library of Congress in the Prints and Photographs Division. She was recently hired full-time as an archivist at the University of Baltimore. Tyler Davis (’18 MLS) Davis has accepted the position of Archives Project Coordinator for the Richard G. Lugar Senatorial Papers. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Miami University, and he graduated from Indiana University with his Master of Library Science with a specialization in Archives and Records Management. He has previously worked for the MidPointe Library System in Middletown, Ohio, as well as for the Center for Digital Scholarship at Miami University. He also worked at both the Indiana University Archives and the E. Lingle Craig Preservation Laboratory. Davis has experience arranging and describing historical and modern archival collections, curating exhibitions, working with digitized and born-digital items, and addressing the preservation needs of different collections. Andre DeLuce (’10 MIS) DeLuce works as a Technical Project Manager for the Mobile Campus Solutions Division at Ex Libris (a ProQuest Company) in Boise, Idaho.
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a graduate assistant for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and was recently the supervisor for the Read Residence Hall Library. She has served as secretary for the IU Association for Information Science and Technology and as a member of student advisory committees for the Center for Excellence for Women in Technology and the Department of Information and Library Science. Ally Muterspaw (’18 MLS) In September 2018, Muterspaw started a full time position with the Hamilton East Public Library in Fishers, Indiana, as a Public Services Librarian. Brooke Newberry (’11 MLS) Newberry was recently hired as a Collaborative Consultant for the Winding Rivers Library System in western Wisconsin. Heidi Tebbe (’14 MLS) Tebbe is the Collections and Research Librarian for Engineering and Data Science at North Carolina State University, where she serves on the Visualization Services Team and the Social Media Working Group. She has lent her talents to projects ranging from Dynamic Sun—in which a high-definition, near-real-time image of the sun was projected onto a wall in the main library— to a history of women in STEM fields at the university. Within SLA, she is active in the PAM Division, where she serves on the Professional Development Committee. Tebbe received a Rising Star Award at the SLA 2018 Annual Conference.
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