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We are proud and honored to announce three additions to our stellar faculty at the School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina beginning Fall, 2010. Dr. Karen Gavigan joins the School of Library and Information Science at USC as an assistant professor. She has a PhD in Teacher Education with a concentration in literacy from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). She is currently the Director of the Teaching Resources Center at UNCG. Prior to working at UNCG, she served as a children's services librarian, reference librarian, and she worked for fifteen years as a school librarian. Karen is past president of the North Carolina School Library Media Association. She has served in several leadership positions in the American Association of School Librarians. Karen's research interests include the use of graphic novels with struggling male adolescent readers, flexible versus fixed scheduling in school libraries, as well as the ways in which poverty affects school library services. Dr. Susan Rathbun-Grubb received her PhD from the UNC School of Information and Library Science in 2009, where she has also taught organization of information, organization of materials, and indexing and abstracting as an adjunct instructor. Her doctoral research (Leaving Librarianship: A Study of the Determinants and Consequences of Occupational Turnover) focused on career satisfaction, turnover, and retention in the library and information science field. She has worked as a Research Scientist on the Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science projects at the UNC Institute on Aging. While at UNC she was named a Future Faculty Fellow and received the Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship. A Beta Phi Mu member, she has worked in academic, public, and school libraries, as well as the health information technology industry. She earned her MSLS from the UNC School of Information and Library Science and a MAT and AB from Duke University. At the May 2010 graduation ceremony she received the 2010 UNC School of Information and Library Science adjunct faculty Award for Teaching Excellence. We welcome Dr. Rathbun-Grubb to the University of South Carolina as an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science. Gerry Solomon joins USC SLIS as an Instructor, specializing in School Library Media, internships and administration. She has been the School Library Media Consultant with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's Instructional Technology Division, supporting approximately 2300 media professionals throughout the state with consulting and professional development. She also has been an adjunct instructor at the UNC-Chapel Hill/School of Information and Library Science. Prior to joining the state agency, she was a school library media consultant in NC and in the Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools. She began her professional career as a teacher in Fairfax County. Gerry grew up in Richmond, VA. She and her husband, Paul Solomon, married and lived in Fairfax County for many years until moving to Chapel Hill, NC in 1991. They have two sons, one living in Fayetteville, NC and the other in Birmingham, AL. Dr. S. K. Hastings Director and Professor School of Library and Information Science University of South Carolina Davis College 1501 Greene St. Columbia, SC 29208 803-777-3858 [log in to unmask] http://www.libsci.sc.edu