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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 »

Meet the Staff: Fall 2014 Edition – Becca!

Good evening! This week’s edition of Meet the Staff stars Becca McGuire, a Moline native who has been everywhere from Champaign to South Africa! She is a GA and TA at the Help Desk/Office of Instructional Technology and Design, and her concentration within GSLIS is a wonderful amalgamation of community informatics, public librarianship, community outreach, and instruction, read more »

Meet the Staff: Fall 2014 Edition – Sierra!

Hello, and welcome to Meet the Staff! Today’s fabulous Help Desk / Office of Instructional Technology and Design employee is Sierra Gregg! She just started at GSLIS as well as the Help Desk this fall, and has already found so many interesting things to learn that she has not been able to pick a concentration read more »

Meet the Staff: Fall 2014 Edition – Kate!

Good morning! Today’s edition of Meet the Staff features the lovely tech guru, Kate Rojas, who hails from the great state of Pennsylvania! Kate is interested in a variety of topics within GSLIS, but specifically focused on K-12 Librarianship, Community Informatics, and Youth Services. She is concentrating on getting her specialization certificate, which you can read more »