{"id":7993,"date":"2019-10-30T15:59:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T19:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sis.utk.edu\/?p=7993"},"modified":"2019-10-30T15:59:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T19:59:18","slug":"alum-qa-jenny-moore-turned-her-love-of-research-into-librarianship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cci.utk.edu\/sis\/2019\/10\/30\/alum-qa-jenny-moore-turned-her-love-of-research-into-librarianship\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum Q&amp;A: Jenny Moore Turned Her Love of Research into Librarianship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7999 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cci.utk.edu\/sis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/JennyMoore-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Featured Alum:<\/strong> Jenny Moore<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: Maryville, Tennessee<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your education background and how did you end up in East Tennessee?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I went to Berry College in Rome, Georgia, and was a biology major \u2013 it\u2019s a small school as far as students, but I think it\u2019s the largest acreage campus in the world. I moved to Knoxville in \u201995 to go to grad school at UT and got my master\u2019s in plant science doing research on drought stress in trees. I did plant physiology research for several years. I took some time off when I had my kids and we moved to Maryville and I\u2019ve lived here for about 15 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your career path like before you decided to get your MSIS degree?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was in high school, I thought I wanted to be a librarian. Then I got to college and everything seemed so interesting. I had a different idea of what I wanted to do every day. I sort of followed my nose and ended up doing plant research and enjoyed that for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>After I had my children, I taught preschool for about three years \u2013 I always liked working with children. After teaching preschool \u2013 which takes a lot of patience, it\u2019s rewarding but it\u2019s hard work \u2013 I started to miss research, so I ended up coming back to UT and doing sustainable agriculture extension and research.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture research involves a lot of physical labor and I started to think, I can\u2019t keep doing this until I\u2019m 65. It\u2019s hard physical work and a lot of time out in the field in the 90-degree heat; and what I liked best about the research work was looking for information and analyzing data. Whenever we started a new project, we\u2019d do a literature search, and I loved that part of it. The lightbulb came on when I thought, maybe I needed to change my career. I was working at UT and I knew UT had an information science department. I met with Dr. [Cindy] Welch because I was thinking I wanted to be a school librarian. She was very encouraging and got me excited about going back to school; she was just great. I told her that I had all these different interests pulling me in different directions and she said, \u201cSounds like you\u2019re one of us!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>How was your experience in the MSIS program?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just a great experience. I\u2019ve enjoyed the classes. I did only online courses, even though I\u2019m not that far away. With having kids, and working full-time, the online classes really, really helped with that. I could be at home, log in for \u00a0class, and then when class was over, I was already at home. I could tell my kids goodnight and help them with homework, instead of driving 40 minutes home. I don\u2019t think I could have done it without the online classes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you choose your pathway?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started out thinking I wanted to be a K-12 librarian.\u00a0 But then I thought about how much I enjoy research, and began to think that maybe the academic librarian route would be a better fit for me. Then I got a part-time job at Pellissippi State as a reference librarian and I have really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s next for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because I have kids who are in school here and we have a lot of family in this area, I feel like I have to expand my idea of what I want to do, but if I were younger and could go anywhere I wanted, I\u2019d definitely want to be a science librarian. I think to be a science librarian, the most important thing is that you know how to find information and understand the science sources, but I think it would help to have a science background and language to connect with researchers. I would love to be a science librarian or possibly work at Pendergrass Library, getting back into agriculture again. I think I would enjoy technical services librarianship, as well.<\/p>\n<p>When the position is right and the time is right, it will work out. 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