Monthly Archives: November 2014

Meet the Staff: Fall 2014 Edition – Laura G.!

Happy Thanksgiving holiday break everyone!  I hope you are all catching up on sleep, projects, and relaxation time too!  Today’s  Meet the Staff honoree is Laura G. Cruz, our fabulous Help Desker from Miami who specializes in what she likes to call “a little bit of everything.”  Laura joined the Help Desk and Office of read more »

Meet the Staff: Fall 2014 Edition – Neil!

Two inches of snow means…two Meet the Staff posts! Part two of this deluxe snowy deal stars Neil Thackeray, Systems staff member extraordinaire who specializes in Linux, Windows, and OSX operating systems and spends his days at GSLIS developing system applications in C#, C++, Python, Perl and other languages. When asked about his favorite item read more »

Meet the Staff: Fall 2014 Edition – Berenice!

Good morning Champaign-Urbana! How are we doing in all of this snow? Two inches last night, and more flurries in the forecast? I think winter is officially here! Today’s edition of Meet the Staff features the lovely Berenice Vargas, whom we cannot blame for the cold weather because she actually just got back from a read more »

Meet the Staff: Fall 2014 Edition – Brianna!

Guess what, team? Today is your day because we will be featuring TWO staff members in the blog this fine Tuesday! Meet the Staff part II edition features Help Desk GA/TA extraordinaire Brianna Walker, our lucky second star hailing from Chicago. No stranger to the U of I lifestyle (she received her undergraduate degree in read more »

Meet the Staff: Fall 2014 Edition – Franklin!

Good afternoon, and hope this chilly weather is treating you well, fellow GSLIS-ers! Today I have the pleasure of writing a Meet the Staff blurb about the often-imitated-but-never-duplicated Franklin Kramer! After getting his Masters degree from GSLIS and working at the Help Desk as a graduate assistant and teaching assistant, Franklin stayed on with the read more »

Meet the Staff: Fall 2014 Edition – Jill!

Happy November! Today’s edition of Meet the Staff features none other than the infamous Information Resource Manager (and former GSLIS alum): Jill Gengler! Often found right around the corner from the Help Desk when she’s not running half marathons or biking uphill both ways, Jill enjoys reminding students that the Help Desk is really like read more »