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I started graduate school hoping primarily to become an educator; the research aspect of the PhD was fun, but I was mostly looking forward to teaching. I did end up teaching for a while as a teaching fellow and a summer school instructor at Brandeis, as well as as a two-year visiting instructor at the University of Maine at Farmington but in the process somehow never quite got around to actually writing my dissertation. Then the Great Recession hit and basically wiped out most of the already limited faculty positions that existed in my field, and it became quite clear that it was time for a Plan B. That turned out to be librarianship, and I couldn’t be happier with that choice: I still get to do the research I enjoy, and more importantly, I still get to
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Library Journal Names Librarian Reserve Corps founder, co-leads 2021 Librarian(s) of the Year
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Elaine R. Hicks, Stacy Brody and Sara Loree exemplify the library profession’s exemplary pandemic response
What makes our Librarians of the Year stand out, even in such company, is that they used their core librarianship information wrangling skills to literally help save lives. NEW YORK (PRWEB) January 11, 2021 Library Journal (LJ) has named Elaine R. Hicks, Stacy Brody, and Sara Loree, founder and co-leads of the Librarian Reserve Corps, as its 2021 Librarian(s) of the Year.
Hicks, Research, Education, and Public Health Librarian at Tulane University, New Orleans, rapidly created the Librarian Reserve Corps (LRC) in response to the World Health Organization’s need for timely, accurate, and searchable material about COVID-19. Brody, Reference and Instruction Librarian at the George Washington Univer