Happy March Spectrum Community,
Join us in celebrating these honors and accomplishments:
- Juandamarie Gikandi (2014 Scholar) received a grant from NEH for "Common Heritage: Uncommon Quilts," which will consist of a quilting exhibition, a preservation event, and demonstrations and workshops. The grant was jointly awarded to the Montclair Historical Society and the Nubian Heritage Quilters Guild:http://www.northjersey.com/community-news/montclair-historical-society-and-nubian-heritage-guild-receive-neh-grant-1.1498044
- USC Los Angeles Subject Resident Archivist Joanna Chen Cham (2013 Scholar) has begun an effort to actively collect Taiwanese American history. Show your support and contribute to the future of the Taiwanese American Digital Archive at the University of Southern California Libraries' Special Collections and Archives:http://goo.gl/forms/j1MPsfYYId
- Chapters “Discovering Librarianship: Personalizing the Recruitment Process for Underrepresented Students” by Emily K. Chan, Jovanni Lota (2008 Scholar), Holly A. Smith (2006 Scholar) and Steven D. Booth (2008 Scholar) and “Mentoring and Retention of Minority Librarians” by Melody Royster (2005 Scholar), David Schwieder, Ava Iuliano Brillat, and Lori Driverwere published in Where are all the Librarians of Color? The Experiences of People of Color in Academia edited by Rebecca Hankins and Miguel Juárez:http://libraryjuicepress.com/librariansofcolor.php
- Jarrett Drake (2011 Scholar) has been featured in “How young librarians are figuring out the field's future”:http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/homepage-feature/item/89910-how-young-librarians-are-figuring-out-the-future
- Thomas Padilla (2012 Scholar) has received the Gale Cengage History Research and Innovation Award. Through oral histories, Padilla will create a better understanding of the past, present and future roles of librarians in the Digital Humanities: http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2016/03/padilla-mcnabb-named-award-winners-historical-and-genealogical-research-and
- Barbara Alvarez (2011 Scholar), Nicola Andrews (2015 Scholar), Priya Charry (2015 Scholar), Henrique Coelho (2007 Scholar), Carla Davis-Castro (2011 Scholar), Hoan-Vu Do (2010 Scholar), Orolando Duffus (2012 Scholar), Alia Gant (2015 Scholar), Bergis Jules (2007 Scholar), Pearl Ly (2006 Scholar), G. Salim Mohammed (2005 Scholar), Erik Ponder (2015 Scholar), Rita Puig (2009 scholar), and Robbee Tonubbee (2014 Scholar) have been selected as IFLA Fellows and will be attending the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 13–19, 201: http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2016/03/fifty-receive-fellowships-imls-grant-attend-ifla-congress-columbus-ohio-aug
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