Student Spotlight
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Student Spotlight Jeff Zentner is a Musician, Lawyer, Author, and Librarian is Next on His List
Featured student: Jeff Zentner Location: Nashville, TN Education: Bachelor’s degree in communications from University of Utah, law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School Career/Background: I’ve had a number of different lives. I used to be a musician. As a musician, I recorded several albums with bands and solo, and wrote a bunch of songs. I’ve worked with Iggy…
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Student Spotlight: Kristy Cunningham Combines a Passion for People and Tech
Featured student: Kristy Cunningham Location: Cookeville, TN Education: Bachelor’s in Management Information Systems, MBA from Tennessee Tech, will graduate Spring 2020 with an MSIS Career: I work at Tennessee Tech, but not in the library. I am the assistant director for the Center for Career Development; I do resume reviews, career fairs, classroom presentations about interviews and resumes, and…
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MSIS Student Rachael Murphy Uses Practicum to Explore Diversity & Inclusion in Hodges Library
MSIS student Rachael Murphy started an assistantship at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Hodges Library in fall 2019, conducting a “kindness audit.” The audit takes an inventory of all the signage throughout the library to assess what kind of messages or ideas are being communicated to those who walk into the building. “We’re looking at,…
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Student Spotlight: Yasmin Stoss Zeroes in on Providing Information Access to Researchers
Featured student: Yasmin Stoss. Location: Knoxville, TN. Education: Bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in Japanese. Career: After graduating, I was working for a while, I had two full-time jobs before I started the master’s program. One of them was working with an institutional review board at a different university and through that job, I…
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Will Biggs: Veteran, Purple Heart Recipient, MSIS Student, Second-Gen Vol
When Will Biggs left the United States Marine Corps after 10 years of service, he started a job hunt that proved to be a bit rougher than he had anticipated. “I was looking at county jobs and had probably applied to at least 15 positions, and nobody gave me a chance until the public libraries…
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MSIS Student Frankie McGinnis on Being a Student, Live Organ Donor, and Caregiver
Since this article was published in the SIS “Spark” magazine, Frankie McGinnis’ daughter, Laura, passed away. But, the University of Tennessee created and approved a new employee leave policy and named it the Laura McGinnis Policy on Organ Donation in January 2020 in her honor. You can view the entire “Spark” magazine here. When SIS student Frankie…
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Student Spotlight: Clancy Anderson Joins IMLS Project to Support Veterans Via Library Services
Featured student: Clancy Anderson Location: Bristol, Tenn. Education: Training as a submarine nuclear reactor operator in the Navy, and an undergraduate degree in history from Eastern Connecticut State University Career: I grew up on a ranch in Central Montana, then I went to being on a submarine in the Navy, to being a librarian in…
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Lisa Ladd Heads to ALA with Marcellus Turner Student Travel Scholarship
MSIS student Lisa Ladd is the 2019 Marcellus Turner Student Travel Scholarship Award winner, and she’s thrilled that it will fund her trip to the American Library Association Conference in Washington, D.C. this June. Though she has attended the ALA conference in the past in her capacity as a library professional, she has never gone…
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Student Spotlight: Kashif Graham Finds New Calling in Theological Librarianship
Featured student: Kashif Graham Location: Nashville Education: Bachelor’s of Arts in English literature, and Spanish from Lehman College (City University of New York); Master of Arts in Church Ministry from the Pentecostal Theological Seminary in Cleveland, Tennessee; will graduate Spring 2019 with an MSIS degree. Current job: I moved to Nashville to start working at Vanderbilt Divinity School Library…
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Student Spotlight: Emily McCutcheon Switches from Practicing Law, to Law Librarianship
Featured student: Emily McCutcheon Location: Knoxville Education: BA in political science and history from Emory University; juris doctorate from University of Georgia Athens School of Law; currently in second semester of the first year in the MSIS program. Current jobs: I work at the Law Library of Congress as a remote content management internship. It…