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Greetings ALSGS Members, 

As we head into the start of another school year, we wanted to take a moment to introduce ourselves and seek your feedback on the next steps for the interest group. 

Jess Hagman (Convener): I'm a Social Sciences Research Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I'm a subject liaison for Anthropology, Sociology, and Geography and work with folks doing qualitative research through consultations and workshops. All of my subject areas have grad programs and the bulk of my consults on qualitative software and research are grad students. 

Geoff Johnson (Past Convener): I'm the Graduate Teaching and Learning Librarian at the Auraria Library in Denver, Colorado. The library works with three schools, two of which have growing graduate programs. I work a lot with Social Work and Public Administration master's programs as well as a smattering of other subject areas.

Matt Ogborn (Incoming Convener): I'm a Graduate Outreach and Instruction Librarian at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. I don't focus on particular subject areas, instead trying to reach as many graduate students and programs as possible, both on our five campuses and online, to make them aware of the library's tools and resources.

During the 20-21 year, a working group from ALSGS selected the first list of Notable Works in Services for Graduate Students. 

This year, we'd like to return to hosting webinars and discussions to bring folks together to discuss how services for graduate students have been adapted or changed in light of the pandemic. We're also interested in exploring questions around the structuring of graduate student support in our institutions. 

To kick off our discussion, we'd like to ask you all to share your own introduction to yourself, as well as describing what graduate support looks like at your institution in terms of structure and staffing. Has there been any change to your systems of graduate support in recent years (COVID-related, or not)? Do you anticipate any changes? Or are there any you'd like to see, even if that's just in a world with more resources? 

Please also share any ideas you're interested in exploring this year in this thread. As a reminder, we're now using ALA Connect for communication rather than the previous email list. You can change when you receive notifications for posts in this, or any other, ALA Connect community through your Community Notifications. Posts must follow the Code of Conduct.