Month: April 2019
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New travel management partner to support all of Emory
On Monday, April 29, Emory will have a new travel management partner to support all Emory University and Emory Healthcare travel efforts. What you should know The travel agency selection committee, which included several school chief business officers, global and student travel arrangers, evaluated and chose Corporate Travel Management (CTM) as the best travel management partner for Emory. CTM demonstrated the right…
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Sallie Owens, Informatics Analyst, IT Data Solutions
Sallie Owens has joined the IT Data Solutions team as an informatics analyst. She spent the past four years as a data analyst split between Emory’s School of Medicine and Emory Healthcare Primary Care. She also worked for three years as a transportation analyst at WestRock and three years as a healthcare associate at Huron…
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LITS recent headlines and upcoming events
Recent LITS headlines: ECDS news: Pitts Theology Library launches the Howard Thurman Digital Archive Emory Libraries news: “Rolling with the big dogs:” A high school sophomore’s experience interning at Emory Emory Libraries news: Preserving the Telugu Manuscript Upcoming LITS events: (go HERE for more information for each event) April 24 – Event: SIRE/URP Poster presentations and symposium, 2:30…
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Art+Feminism 2019 Edit-a-Thon participants edit 25 articles, create 2 more
On Thursday night, March 21, during Women’s History Month, the Woodruff Library hosted its fourth annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. This event is part of a global campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia and to empower new editors. During Thursday’s edit-a-thon, the Woodruff Library’s “Wikipedian in Residence,” Caroline Scheving, provided basic Wikipedia…
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Mike Lewis becomes first LITS employee to carry all five core AWS certifications
Mike Lewis (systems architect, systems engineering) recently completed his sixth AWS certification and was notified that he was in a select group of individuals who had completed all five core AWS certifications. Kevin Niekirk from AWS Educational Services informed Mike that he is in a group of fewer than 3,000 people in the world who carry…
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Jessica Perlove, Coordinator of the Marian K. Heilbrun Music and Media Library, Emory Libraries
Jessica Perlove was recently promoted to the position of coordinator of the Music and Media Library. She previously held the position of privileges and accounts specialist in Emory Libraries, spending the past 11 years in that role. Jessica also was a documentation database specialist at Emory, and worked at Emory’s Druid Hills Bookstore, starting in 2000.…
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Jenny Vitti, ILL Borrowing Coordinator, Emory Libraries
Jenny Vitti is the new interlibrary loan (ILL) borrowing coordinator. She spent the last nine years as a senior reserves and stacks specialist and senior cataloguing specialist at Emory’s Pitts Theology Library. Born in Indianapolis, IN, Jenny grew up in Lawrenceville and Gainesville, GA. She later earned a bachelor’s degree in Renaissance studies from the…