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TRANSITIONS
About Melissa Melissa graduated from Southern Adventist University with a B.A. in English in 2010, then went on to earn her MLS from Indiana University in 2012. After serving in a temporary position as the virtual services librarian for McKee Library,
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What’s Inside
McKee Library welcomes Melissa Hortemiller as Public Services Librarian McKee Library is proud to welcome Melissa Hortemiller as Public Services Librarian. Melissa fills this important role following the departure of Katie McGrath from McKee Library in December 2019. As the Public Services Librarian, Melissa will be leading our information literacy instruction and will be part of the research coaching team. She will also serve as chair of Campus Research Day.
she worked as a federal contractor doing technical writing, logistics, and acquisition. In 2017, she had an opportunity to return to the field of librarianship and accepted the role of public services librarian at Union College. During her first year at Union, she was asked to serve as interim library director and was officially promoted to library director several months later. Though she enjoyed her three years at Union College, she is excited to return to her alma mater and to join the McKee Library team as public services librarian. In her free time, Melissa enjoys exercising, plant-based nutrition, amateur photography, and making and sharing delicious food.
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Contact Melissa can be contacted at mhortemiller@southern.edu.
REFWORKS
Newly adopted bibliographic management tool for university McKee Library is excited to announce the transition to RefWorks as our bibliographic management tool. Research Guide The RefWorks guide includes directions on how to create an account, and links to a series of tutorials covering all aspects of using RefWorks. The FAQ page addresses questions you might have about this transition. Questions As you consider transitioning from Mendeley to RefWorks, keep in mind that although the library will only be providing
access and instruction to RefWorks, Mendeley is a free program. As such, your account will remain active with Mendeley as long as you would like to use the program. You can import your Mendeley library into RefWorks using these directions. Questions Please contact a research coach if you have any questions or would like to schedule a training session via Zoom for your department or summer class.
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Library Faculty & Staff
Deyse Bravo-Rivera Becky Brooks Genevieve Cottrell Stanley Cottrell Sonja Fordham
Carol Harrison Melissa Hortemiller Donald Martin Seth Shaffer Jessica Spears
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