[Asis-l] New Faculty at SLIS, USC

[HASTINGS, SAM]

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

hastings at sc.edu

http://www.libsci.sc.edu

 

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