Southern Miss SLIS Alums
Colleen Beavers (MLIS, May 2012), the first SLIS graduate to be awarded the Graduate Certificate in Archives and Special Collections (http://www.usm.edu/slis/ASCCertificate.php), has accepted a position as the Special Collections Librarian/Archivist at Beauvoir: Jefferson Davis Presidential Museum and Library in Biloxi, Miss. http://www.beauvoir.org/
Catherine Smith (MLIS, May 2012) won the department research award for “The Ethics of Censorship of Library Materials for Children” at the USM Graduate Student Research Symposium at the Thad Cochran Center, March 23, 2012 (faculty sponsor Dr. Stacy Creel). Catherine is now the librarian at Barret's Chapel Elementary School in Shelby County, Tennessee.
Rosemarie Tominello (MLIS, May 2012), Librarian for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Jackson, Miss., recently published, “A Sense of Place: The New U.S. Federal Courthouse in Jackson Traverses the Past and Keeps Pace with the Future” in AALL Spectrum (May 2012) http://www.aallnet.org/main-menu/Publications/spectrum/Vol-16/No-7/jackson.pdf
Shane Hand (Dual Masters’ in History/LIS, August 2011, http://www.usm.edu/slis/prog_dual.php), now a USM doctoral student in history, curated the current exhibit at Cook Library’s Learning Commons. “Black White Lightning: Mississippi Moonshine, 1900-1966” is based on oral histories, newspapers, photographs and artifacts related to the South’s black moonshiners. http://www.usm.edu/news/article/library-exhibit-examines-moonshine-tradition-south-mississippi-1900-1966
Southern Miss SLIS Students
Bernadette Birzer, as part of her archival practicum at USM McCain Special Collections under the supervision of archivist Jennifer Brannock, recently curated an exhibit at USM Cook Library. The exhibit, "100 Years of Publishing: 19th Century Literature at McCain Library and Archives," displays examples of popular authors and publishers of that era and illustrates variations in binding styles and as well as publishing craft and technique.
Jaclyn Lewis was awarded a $500 mini-grant from the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation to fund the “Stories in Motion” project to develop and offer a stop-animation class to all five branches of the Madison County Library System where Jaclyn is employed. Jaclyn developed the grant application to fulfill a class assignment in LIS 605: Library Management.
http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/2012-minigrant-recipients/
James Parks, Research Instructional Services & Circulation Librarian at Mississippi College Law Library, participated in this year's USM Student Research Colloquium sponsored by the Department of Educational Studies and Research, April 26, 2012, at the USM Thad Cochran Center (Dr. Teresa Welsh, SLIS faculty sponsor). His poster, “Libraries and Technology: Opening up the State Judiciary to Greater Transparency,” was on the Mississippi College Judicial Data Project (http://judicial.mc.edu/), which allows access to Mississippi appellate briefs, oral argument videos, and excerpts from the appellate record as well as the most recent statistical data from the Mississippi Supreme Court and Mississippi Court of Appeals.
Katherine Parr published "The Impact of School Libraries on Student Achievement and Success" in the Spring 2012 edition of Mississippi Libraries. The paper was completed for the capstone practicum course requirement for the LIS BA degree. http://www.misslib.org/publications/ml/2012x2015/ML2012Spring.pdf
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Teresa S. Welsh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Library & Information Science
The University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive #5146
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001
