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Leadership

2022 ULS-Sponsored Emerging Leader: Caterina Reed

Once again ULS is proud to sponsor an emerging leader. This year the section is sponsoring, Caterina Reed, in partnership with the Distance and Online Learning Section (DOLS). The Emerging Leaders program is a leadership development program for no more than 50 newer library workers per year that provides participants with the opportunity to work with a team to complete a 6-month project proposed by an ALA unit. Each team will present the results of their project at the ALA Annual Conference.

Awards

ULS Outstanding Professional Development Award Interview: The Editorial Team of LibParlor

Nimisha Bhat, Hailley Fargo, Chelsea Heinbach, and Charissa Powell, members of the editorial team for the professional development blog LibParlor, are the 2021 recipients of the ACRL ULS Outstanding Professional Development Award. Sponsored by Library Juice Academy, the $1,000 award recognizes librarians, archivists or curators whose contributions to providing professional development opportunities for librarians have been especially noteworthy or influential. The team was selected for their efforts to create and promote an online community of practice for librarians.

Mary Anne Hansen Outstanding Professional Development Award 2020

Awards

ULS Outstanding Professional Development Award Interview: Mary Anne Hansen

Mary Anne Hansen, Tribal College Librarians Institute Coordinator, is the 2020 recipient of the ACRL ULS Outstanding Professional Development Award. Sponsored by Library Juice Academy, the $1,000 award recognizes librarians, archivists or curators whose contributions to providing professional development opportunities for librarians have been especially noteworthy or influential. The Mary...

Leadership

2020 ULS Candidate for Member-At-Large: Annie Zeidman-Karpinski

Tell us more about yourself and how you became an academic librarian. After many years of graduate school in geography, but leaving without a Ph.D. I worked as a researcher for several activist labor unions, then for a non-profit internet service provider and finally in Q/A for an search provider....

Leadership

2020 ULS Candidate for Member-At-Large: Mea Warren

Tell us more about yourself and how you became an academic librarian. I am the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Librarian at the University of Houston, and have been here since I graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with my MSLS in 2015. I’m one of those science librarians who have definitely...

Leadership

2020 ULS Candidate for Member-At-Large: Chris Miller

Tell us more about yourself and how you became an academic librarian. I had a bit of a winding road to becoming an academic librarian. Not having a firm grasp of what I wanted to do with my life, after college I went back into the revolving door of mostly...

Leadership

2020 ULS Candidate for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Laura Gariepy

Tell us more about yourself and how you became an academic librarian. I’ve been an academic librarian for nearly 11 years, after receiving my MSLS from UNC Chapel Hill, and have been at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries in Richmond, VA since 2009. I started as an Undergraduate Research Librarian,...

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2020 ULS Candidate for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Jennifer Sharkey

Tell us more about yourself and how you became an academic librarian. I’ve been an academic librarian for almost 20 years. While in school, I had the opportunity to work in a variety of academic library on campus. However, right out of library school I worked for a short time...

Leadership

Interview with ULS Chair Amanda Peters

Amanda Peters is the 2019-2020 Chair of the University Libraries Section. Currently she works at the University of Michigan Library as the Student Engagement Librarian for Learning Programs and Initiatives. In this interview Amanda talks about her involvement with ULS and what she hopes to accomplish as Chair.

Member of the Month

Member of the Month: Russ Dennison

Russ Dennison is the June 2019 Member of the Month. Learn more about Russ and what inspires him about working in a university library.