Dr. Deborah Grealy has accepted the
position of Associate Dean for the MLIS program. She began her work
with us this February.
Dr. Grealy comes to St. Catherine from
the University from the University of Denver where she was an Assistant
Professor and former Director of the Library and Information Science Program
in the Morgridge College of Education. She received a Ph.D. in Higher Education
with a focus on the Adult Learner from the University of Denver, a Master
in Library Science (MLS) from the University of Oklahoma, a Master of Arts
in History from Kent State University as well as a Bachelor of Arts from
Kent State in Anthropology and English. Dr. Grealy is not only an
experienced higher-education administrator, but also an experienced librarian
with a strong record of service to the profession. She has served
as a member of the Colorado Library Advisory Board; on the board of directors
for the Collaborative Digitization Program; and on the executive board
of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Special Libraries Association , which
honored her with a "Meritorious Achievement Award" in 2000. Dr
Grealy is an award winning author, whose most recent contribution
to the scholarship of our field is titled From Research to Practice:
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in LIS".
We welcome Dr. Grealy to St. Catherine
University and look forward to working with her.
Please also join us in thanking Mary
Wagner, MLIS Program Director. After thirty plus years of program
administration she returns to teaching in the MLIS Program.
Master of Library and Information
Science Program
St. Catherine University