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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>We are
proud and honored to announce three additions to our stellar faculty at the
School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina
beginning Fall, 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Dr. Karen
Gavigan</span></b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> joins the
School of Library and Information Science at USC as an assistant
professor. She has a PhD in Teacher Education with a concentration in
literacy from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). She
is currently the Director of the Teaching Resources Center at UNCG. Prior
to working at UNCG, she served as a children’s services librarian, reference
librarian, and she worked for fifteen years as a school librarian. Karen
is past president of the North Carolina School Library Media Association.
She has served in several leadership positions in the American Association of
School Librarians. Karen’s research interests include the use of graphic
novels with struggling male adolescent readers, flexible versus fixed
scheduling in school libraries, as well as the ways in which poverty affects
school library services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Dr. Susan
Rathbun-Grubb</span></b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
received her PhD from the UNC School of Information and Library Science in
2009, where she has also taught organization of information, organization of
materials, and indexing and abstracting as an adjunct instructor. Her doctoral
research (<i>Leaving Librarianship: A Study of the Determinants and
Consequences of Occupational Turnover</i>) focused on career satisfaction,
turnover, and retention in the library and information science field. She
has worked as a Research Scientist on the Workforce Issues in Library and
Information Science projects at the UNC Institute on Aging. While at UNC she
was named a Future Faculty Fellow and received the Margaret Ellen Kalp
Fellowship. A Beta Phi Mu member, she has worked in academic, public, and
school libraries, as well as the health information technology industry. She
earned her MSLS from the UNC School of Information and Library Science and a
MAT and AB from Duke University. At the May 2010 graduation ceremony she
received the 2010 UNC School of Information and Library Science adjunct faculty
Award for Teaching Excellence. We welcome Dr. Rathbun-Grubb to the
University of South Carolina as an assistant professor in the School of Library
and Information Science.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>
</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Gerry Solomon </span></b><span
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>joins USC SLIS as an Instructor,
specializing in School Library Media, internships and administration. She
has been the School Library Media Consultant with the North Carolina Department
of Public Instruction's Instructional Technology Division, supporting
approximately 2300 media professionals throughout the state with consulting and
professional development. She also has been an adjunct instructor at the
UNC-Chapel Hill/School of Information and Library Science. Prior to
joining the state agency, she was a school library media consultant in NC and
in the Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools. She began her professional
career as a teacher in Fairfax County. Gerry grew up in Richmond,
VA. She and her husband, Paul Solomon, married and lived in Fairfax
County for many years until moving to Chapel Hill, NC in 1991. They have
two sons, one living in Fayetteville, NC and the other in Birmingham, AL.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dr. S. K. Hastings<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Director and Professor<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>School of Library and
Information Science<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>University of South
Carolina<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Davis College<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>1501 Greene St.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Columbia, SC 29208<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>803-777-3858<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>hastings@sc.edu<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.libsci.sc.edu<span
style='color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
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