She enjoys her 500 students and the joy they bring to the library. She recently became National Board Certified, which was demanding but taught her a lot about teaching. Katie Noonan (MS '10) is an elementary school librarian in Oak Park, Illinois, spending her days teaching about books, digital citizenship, robots, STEAM, informational literacy, and more. Dee would love to hear from classmates, gay Oz fans, and others. She is currently working part time at Eureka Public Library, dabbling in cataloging, YA services, circulation and the children's department as well as cosponsoring the high school book club in her 'old' library.Īfter many years of research, writing, and hunting for a publisher, Dee Michel's (MS '82) book, Friends of Dorothy: Why Gay Boys and Gay Men Love The Wizard of Oz, is now available. Joan Herron (MS '75) is retired after 35 years at Eureka High School in Eureka, Illinois. She hopes to meet lots of fellow Illinois graduates while working in the Southwest U.S. Sarah Hayes (MS '18) started her first post-master's position as a graduate research assistant in the Research Library at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Virgin Islands.īrian Flota's (MS '13) essay titled, “How I Left My PhD in English Behind and Learned to Love the Stacks,” was recently published as part of a collection of essays in Succeeding Outside the Academy: Career Paths beyond the Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM (2018, Joseph Fruscione and Kelly J. She is the regional coordinator for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Sarah Erekson (MS '04) joined Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida as the new regional government documents librarian. She held library positions at several universities and was the dean of the Ottenheimer Library at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock when she retired.Įlizabeth Dupuis (MS '92) received the 2018 Distinguished Librarian Award from the Librarians' Association of the University of California, Berkeley, recognizing excellence in librarianship, specifically as it furthers the university's teaching and research missions. Wanda Dole (MS '75) passed away on November 23, 2018. In this capacity, she works to create programming for graduate students, including workshops, receptions, and exhibits, while also serving at the reference desk and as part of the library's social media team. She has been with the system for eighteen years in various managerial roles.Īlyssa Denneler (MS '18) accepted a position as the Scholars' Commons librarian at Indiana University.

In December 2018, Bethany Corbett (MS '99) was named chief branch officer for the Orange County Library System in Orlando, Florida, where she will be responsible for administering seven of the fifteen branch locations. Tegan Beese (MS '18) has been appointed to the 2020 Michael L.

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