Author: Wade Moricle
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Mike Mandl’s first LITS town hall
On March 13, Mike Mandl, Emory’s Executive Vice President for Business and Administration, conducted his first town-hall meeting with Library and Information Technology Services as a group. “Mike has been an incredible advocate for our organization,” said Rich Mendola, Enterprise CIO and Senior Vice Provost for Library Services, as he introduced Mandl. “He really advocates…
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Spring survey about the Online News
This month marks the one year anniversary of Marcomm’s transition of the Online News from a static monthly online periodical to a weekly WordPress blog. It was a major change in the way we deliver our internal staff content. As such, and because our new colleagues in the Library never got to weigh in on…
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Mark Johnson, Library Service Desk Supervisor, University Libraries
Mark began working as the new weekend and evenings Library Service Desk Supervisor on March 10. The weekend and evenings shift includes Sunday from 1 to 10 p.m. and Monday through Thursday from 2:30 until 11:00 p.m. Mark came from the Pitts Theology Library, where he had served as the Evening Circulation Specialist since 2011.…
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Susan Hobson, Research Informatics Analyst, R-WIT
Susan begins her R-WIT career working on the Tripartite Project for the School of Medicine. She spent the last two years in Chicago at the American Joint Replacement Registry, a non-profit associated with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, where she was a senior registry analyst and worked with hospital administrations, orthopaedic surgeons, and IT departments nationwide to acquire…
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Steffen gets great reviews for recent book
James Steffen, Film and Media Studies Librarian (University Libraries), recently received an excellent review in the Times Literary Supplement for his book, The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov. The review, written by Julian Graffy, a professor of Russian Literature and Cinema in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, described Steffen as a “sure-footed elucidator of the mysteries of…
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Dalla Venezia wins soccer tournament
Luciano Dalla Venezia (UTS Integration) recently participated in the Wolf’s Indoor Soccer end of the year soccer tournament and helped his team bring home a title. The team, called “United,” entered the event as the second-ranked team and won three games for the championship. Luc scored a goal in each game, including the final match,…
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Jamalh Lagrone, Enterprise Messaging Systems Administrator III, Infrastructure
Jamalh will be doing Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory work on the Messaging Team. Before coming to Emory, Jamalh was at Autotrader.com for 2 years as the Lead Senior Network Systems Engineer and worked on their messaging team. Prior to that he was at CBeyond as the Lead Senior Infrastructure Engineer, working on SQL, Active…