Author Archives: Wade Moricle

NDB’s 4th Floor Auditorium gets major facelift

If you have ever attended a meeting in the North Decatur Building’s 4th Floor Auditorium, you are in for a shock today. The room has received a complete refresh of all the technology, as well as a fresh coat of paint. The projector, AV system, screen, microphones, and camera are all new to better facilitate audio […]

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Gerrell Sterling, Computer Support Specialist, GBL

Gerrell Sterling is the new computer support specialist for the Goizueta Business Library. He comes to Emory after being self-employed for the past decade, doing IT support for The Technology Professionals. Gerrell also provided small company IT support in Chicago for three years. Born in tiny St. Francisville, LA, Gerrell started at Tulane University, got […]

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LITS recent headlines and upcoming events

Recent LITS headlines: Emory Report news: Remembering Raymond Danowski, who placed legendary poetry library at Emory Emory Libraries news: 2018 Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon cancelled due to 3/7 university closing will be rescheduled after Spring Break Upcoming LITS events: (go HERE for more information for each event) March 15 – IT Briefing: 10:15 – 12:00 pm, 4th […]

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Rich Mendola looks to the future of LITS in his latest town hall meeting

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Enterprise CIO and Sr. Vice Provost for Library Services & Digital Scholarship Rich Mendola held the LITS Town Hall in the WHSCAB Auditorium last week. There were over 150 employees in attendance and over 70 who followed online. Mendola opened the speech with a statistic. The turnover rate (percentage of employees in a workforce that leave […]

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ECDS presents high-level objectives for FY18

Recently, Co-Director of the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), Wayne Morse, presented at the IT Briefing with an overview of what they have planned for FY18. ECDS was created to sit squarely between IT and the Library as a flexible and innovative division that can enhance digital scholarship by drawing from the resources throughout LITS, […]

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Last chance to participate in Online News survey

Surveys of readership are important because they help determine the future path of our communication vehicles. Campus and Community Relations (CCR) recently completed a crucial survey for the Online News however we decided to add a single Net Promoter Score question to serve as a baseline for future metrics. To date, only 10% of our […]

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Linda Deslandes-Robertson, Desktop Support Specialist, Client Services

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Linda Deslandes-Robertson is the new desktop support specialist in the Woodruff Library. She comes to Emory from TravelTab, where she spent over a year and a half as a corporate systems manager. She also spent over three years as a systems manager at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, FL, and nearly […]

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