Mortensen Library Board of Visitors
Student Merit Awards
It is a commonplace to speak of academic libraries as existing to provide the campus community with the resources necessary to support teaching, learning, and scholarship. Both faculty and students are center stage in fulfilling this mission. Students, however, support the libraries in ways that are usually not recognized formally. Every department in the libraries depends on one or more of the more than a hundred student employees, making us one of the largest student employers on campus. This arrangement benefits both the libraries and the student. The libraries depend on student employees to fulfill its mission, from manipulating sophisticated interlibrary software to shelf reading in order to optimize accessibility. Library employment helps defray college costs for student employees and flexible scheduling minimizes conflict with their academic responsibilities. More importantly, library student employees can work in a learning environment that fosters the knowledge-based organizational skills central to personal and professional success.
Student Merit Awards
It is a commonplace to speak of academic libraries as existing to provide the campus community with the resources necessary to support teaching, learning, and scholarship. Both faculty and students are center stage in fulfilling this mission. Students, however, support the libraries in ways that are usually not recognized formally. Every department in the libraries depends on one or more of the more than a hundred student employees, making us one of the largest student employers on campus. This arrangement benefits both the libraries and the student. The libraries depend on student employees to fulfill its mission, from manipulating sophisticated interlibrary software to shelf reading in order to optimize accessibility. Library employment helps defray college costs for student employees and flexible scheduling minimizes conflict with their academic responsibilities. More importantly, library student employees can work in a learning environment that fosters the knowledge-based organizational skills central to personal and professional success.
The Mortensen Library Board of Visitors has established an annual Merit Award to be given to student employees who demonstrate outstanding service and commitment. Following nomination by library managers and selection by an evaluative committee, up to seven of our most highly motivated students are recognized each year at the spring Mortensen Library Board of Visitors meeting. Previous winners are listed below:
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
| Andrienne Hill Karen Fischer Dan Roman |
Olga Diaz Yodsapat Janeborvorn Stephen LaChance Kimberly Ropes |
Jineui Bae Kristine Cormier Ana Jara Oloruntomi Lasaki Andrew Place |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
| Jolie Chrisman Erin Cook Katie Dower Laura Gershman Amina Syedullah |
Tracy Bacher Lisann Campbell Sam Cook Romain Floyd Evan C. Paul |
Rachel Haney Marissa Lindgren Katherine Piccochi Phil Salathe Priscilla Thorn |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
| Sierra Dixon Charles Huang Allison Scull Anna Walker Ljiljana Zecevic Becky Zukerman |
Lucas Carvalho Fiho Stephen Giorgi Justin H. Isaacs Alyssa Itzkowitz Luis Rodriquez Christian Thompson Alisa Willis |
Richard Bertino Brooke Duffy Nick Statzer Karina Maestre Amanda McLeman James Shepherd |