Category: Staff Bytes
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Ann Frellsen: a career in preservation
Next week, Ann Frellsen will be leaving Emory after nearly 27 years in the Libraries’ Preservation Office located in the Woodruff Library. The following is a discussion about her time at Emory. Q: What are some of the highlights of your 27 years of preservation? A: When I started, Emory was not doing any preservation work…
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Circulating laptops available in Woodruff Library
Starting in January, the Music & Media Library has started to circulate a small collection of four MacBook and six Dell laptops for a circulating period of seven days. This collection was created in response to requests from faculty, staff, and students, for whom the 3-hour circulating collection was not meeting their needs. Many of the faculty and staff…
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Colorful Choices nutrition challenge: put produce first!
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER for Colorful Choices, a six-week nutrition challenge that will help you put produce first. No calorie counting, no fat gram tabulating, no weighing or measuring. Just easy-to-remember daily selections of colorful produce.Track your fruits and veggies daily on the Colorful Choices mobile app. The challenge runs March 27–May 7. All Emory employees…
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Pasackow: Reflections on her Emory career
After over 12 years at Emory, Lee Pasackow is moving on to new challenges as a retiree. I sat down with her recently to talk about her time as a librarian in the Goizueta Business Library at Emory. Q: So what made you decide to retire? Lee: I’m looking forward to being in charge of…
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Sandwich Brigade making its last stand?
For the past 20 years, Winfred Sneed and a small army of compatriots have been helping to feed the homeless of Atlanta. Meeting every Thursday in the North Decatur Building at 8:30 AM, the group make over 400 sandwiches for a pair of homeless shelters in the area. That’s over 400,000 sandwiches. However, Winfred is retiring this…
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Time to nominate a co-worker for the 2016 LITS Significant Contribution Award
Nominations are currently being sought for 2016 LITS Significant Contribution Awards. Many of our employees have made key milestone contributions toward LITS objectives or Emory’s mission during fiscal year 2016. If you happen to work with, or manage, someone who has made such a contribution, please document the details of this achievement on the nomination form…
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Announcing the Emory Caregiver Support program
What is the Emory Caregiver Support Program? It provides support for employees who may be caring for an adult child, sibling, parent, grandparent or adult loved one over 18. Emory Caregiver Support Program offers a variety of benefits to support Emory caregivers both locally and nationally. This service is available for Emory University employees and their family members.…