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
http://www.libsci.sc.edu