Author: Wade Moricle
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Chuck Spornick retires after 31 years at Emory
Chuck Spornick is retiring after being at Emory for 31 years. Lars Myers and I sat down with him recently and asked him to reflect about his career. Question: Tell us about your time at before coming to Emory. Chuck: I was trained as a medievalist at Notre Dame, and I received my PhD in history…
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Opening of ‘Epitaphs’ exhibition draws large crowd
Despite heavy rains, a June 22 event marking the opening of the Billy Howard’s Epitaphs for the Living exhibition drew over 100 attendees. Held in the Jones Room of the Woodruff Library, the event featured a conversation between curator Randy Gue and Billy Howard, an Atlanta photographer who began photographing people with HIV/AIDS in 1987.…
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Peter Shirts, Music Librarian, Music & Media Library
Peter Shirts has joined the Woodruff Library as the newest music librarian. Prior to coming to Atlanta, he was the music and audiovisual librarian for over two years at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Peter also spent time as the Junior Fellow Intern in the Music Division of the Library of Congress. A native of Utah,…
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LITS recent headlines and upcoming events
Recent LITS headlines: Emory Report article: Woodruff Library Level 1 renovations underway; changes to Health Sciences Center Library lobby start this month Emory Report article: Emory University, largest employer in Dekalb County, serves as driving force for Atlanta region Upcoming LITS events: (go HERE for more information for each event) June 29 – InfoForum: Newly formed Libraries…
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Pair of LITS staffers receive their PhDs
On May 18, Ann Cullen and Kitty McNeill each received PhDs in library information science during a graduation ceremony at Simmons College in Boston, MA. During the doctoral hoping ceremony, the graduates were officially “hooded” by their department chairs. Simmons College is ranked as the #9 library science graduate school in the country. Ann, who also holds a bachelor…
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LITS: recent headlines and upcoming events
Recent LITS headlines: American Libraries article: Research Libraries Transform Oxford Library news: Graduating Oxford library student workers choose books for the collection Upcoming LITS events: (go HERE for more information for each event) June 15 – IT Briefing: a monthly look into the IT projects across LITS – 10:15 am – noon – NDB 4th Floor Auditorium June 15 – “Billy Howard’s…
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Matt Hodgson, Manager, ITSMO
Matt Hodgson is the new group manager for the IT Service Management Office (ITSMO). Prior to coming to Emory, Matt spent the last four years as the ITSM manager at Dartmouth College. He also worked in healthcare for ten years as an IT manager. Prior to that he worked at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale as a systems engineer and…