[image1-right]GSLIS master’s student Yan Liu has demonstrated time and
again that she is dedicated to pursuing a career in librarianship and willing
to put in the extra effort required to stand out from the crowd. Since moving from
her home in Beijing to the United States to study library and
information science at GSLIS, Liu’s dedication has garnered well-deserved
attention and praise.…
[image1-right]As outreach coordinator
for The Center for Children’s Books (CCB), Tad Andracki can tell you about
upcoming events at the CCB or volunteer opportunities through the CCB’s various
community partners. As a reviewer for The
Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (BCCB), he can tell you all
about the latest plot twist in the most popular young adult book series. And as
a…
[image1-right]LEEP
student Christina Nhek was recently named the recipient of two scholarships, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association or APALA Scholarship and the California Library
Association or CLA Scholarship for Minority
Students in Memory of Edna Yelland.
Nhek, the
daughter of Cambodian refugees, is currently pursuing a master’s degree and certificate
in special…
[image1-right]When master’s student Kinyetta
Nance started working at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as an intern in high
school, she thought it would be a way to explore interests in engineering. Instead,
it revealed her desire to be at the intersection of people, technology, and
information, paths that meet squarely in the field of library and information
science.
While she studied…
On the south side of Chicago, Sandra Aya Enimil was arguing
with one her seatmates on the bus when someone told her she’d make a good
lawyer. She was seven years old at the time.
“I didn’t know exactly what the word meant, so I asked my
mother what a lawyer was, and she told me it is somebody who helps other
people,” Enimil, a current GSLIS student and LAMP scholar, recalls. “I became…
