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Hall receives campus-wide Student Supervisor of the Year Award Jim Hall of the Art Library was selected to receive the Student Supervisor of the Year Award for the entire UI campus. Hall was selected from among a record 106 nominations, drawn from 1,470 campus supervisors. Hall’s surprise nomination was written by the students he supervises: Ruby Miller, Carson Hartzog, Makenna Boerhave, Adeline Reels, LilliAnna Scott, and Emily Edwards. Each student nominator wrote about Hall’s support and mentorship, stating that he “always allows us to use our knowledge and ideas to solve problems and create new methods of work,” and that he “constantly prioritizes [student employees’] mental health in the workplace.” Hall received his award in May 2023 at the Career Impact Award event sponsored by the Pomerantz Career Center.
Three Libraries team members serving on national associations Katie Buehner, interim associate university librarian and director of the Rita Benton Music Library, was elected to serve as the assistant fiscal officer for the Music Library Association Board (MLA). Melissa Moll, music cataloging librarian, is the new assistant member management officer for the MLA, which is the professional association for music libraries and librarianship in the United States. Mahrya Burnett, scholarly communications librarian, was elected to a two-year term on the Council of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The DOAJ’s mission is to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography,
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