Lee Pasackow, business librarian, was recently elected President of the Fulbright Association, GA. chapter. With the support of the U.S. government and through binational partnerships with foreign governments, the Fulbright Scholarship Program sponsors U.S. and foreign participants for exchanges in multiple disciplines including the sciences, business, public service, government, and the arts to increase mutual understanding […]
The Business Library team recently organized the 8th annual Advanced Challenge. The 15 participating students had completed six Business Essentials classes, a series offered by the business library to sharpen undergraduate business students’ research skills. The classes start students on their path toward becoming a problem solver and critical thinker – highly sought after skills […]
The LITS HR department held their Student Graduate Party in the Jones Room of the Woodruff Library this week, honoring the graduating student workers employed throughout the LITS organization. Many of these students are already moving on either to jobs or to the next level in their educational development. Coordinated by Nydia Charles Huggins, Khadijah […]
Three members of Library Core Services Team, Laura Akerman, Alexander Cooper and Christopher Spalding, attended the Code4Lib “unconference” conference in Raleigh, N.C. March 24 – 28, and we would like to share a little of that experience with LITS. Alex and I were first-timers; Chris had been before. Code4Lib describes itself as “a volunteer-driven collective […]
Jon Bodnar recently accepted the position of Business Analyst with the University Libraries Core Services Team. Jon has worked with the Emory University Libraries for four years and held a number of positions, most recently User Experience Librarian and Woodruff Library Website Coordinator. Before coming to Emory, he spent four years at Georgia Tech’s library as […]
Chris Doty is a new Science Librarian, managing the collection for chemistry and physics, as well as e-Science work with the research data librarian. Before coming to Emory, Chris was the Physics and Materials Science and Engineering Librarian at Georgia Tech for nearly three years. Born in New Jersey, Chris grew up in St. Charles, […]
Starting her new position on June 1, Bethany Nash will continueher previous work from theResearch Library Fellow Program on the electronic thesis and dissertation program (ETDs) and begin new initiatives with the Scholarly Communications Office. She also will be working on OpenEmory, which is the Open Access repository of faculty authored articles. Before coming to Emory, she worked as an imaging technician for The King Center Imaging Project, a large-scale […]