<div dir="ltr">Hi folks - I just thought I would introduce myself. My name is Nicky Andrews, and I am the First-Year Experience Librarian at the University of San Francisco, a role I started in September. This is a brand-new role, and I am considering ways to eventually do research or to present on what I perceive as being a trend of "Student Success/Undergraduate Success/First-Year Experience" type roles being created - and typically filled by young, relatively early career professionals from minority backgrounds; and what that means in terms of power dynamics within academia/the impact we can have on students/our profession.<div><br></div><div>So anyway - hello! Thank you Melody for starting this listserv, and I hope it leads to some fruitful and supportive conversations.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 6:56 AM Melody Rood <<a href="mailto:mlrood@uncg.edu">mlrood@uncg.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello! <div><br></div><div>I'm resending this email since 1) Several people have signed up since I first wrote this and 2) it seems that these emails are going to spam boxes for a lot of people, so please make sure to mark it as NOT spam for future emails!<div><br></div><div>My name is Melody Rood (she/her/hers). I am the Student Success Librarian at UNCG--a new position in our library. I've been in this role for about 6 months now, so I'm still very new! I must admit, when I first started, I felt both anxious and excited to be the first person in this position. I spent a lot of time thinking about how to define my job. When folks asked, I would inevitably find myself in a circumlocutory speech about nontraditional students or retention rates, never really answering the question. I knew what I was expected to do based on the job description, so technically, I could explain what a Student Success Librarian does. However, I found myself wanting to have conversations about what "student success" means in the library--not just the institution's definition. Who decides what is success? How are we measuring it? Are we benchmarking just to prove the library's worth? Who is being left out? So, I looked for associations and potential listservs where I could connect with people who were also in this fairly new position in librarianship. Unfortunately, I did not have a lot of luck. I was able to connect with a couple of people in the Southeast, but I knew there were more of us out there! I told myself if I couldn't find an avenue to connect with other S.S. Librarians by the end my first semester, I would make it happen myself. That led to the creation of this listserv! </div><div><br></div><div>I hope that we can use this space to have conversations, make connections, share CFPs and other professional opportunities, etc. Please feel free to share this listserv with other Student Success Librarians or folks doing similar work. Anybody is welcomed! If you feel inclined to introduce yourself, that would be great, but no pressure! Thank you!</div><div><br></div><div>To share the link to join: <a href="https://wiw.org/mailman/listinfo/studentsuccesslibrarians" target="_blank">https://wiw.org/mailman/listinfo/studentsuccesslibrarians</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best Wishes,</div><div>Melody</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Melody Rood <a href="https://intercultural.uncg.edu/student-advocacy-outreach/lgbt-community/lgbtq-resources/trans-resources/why-pronouns-matter" target="_blank">(she/her/hers)</a><div>Assistant Professor & Student Success Librarian</div><div>Liaison to International & Global Studies</div><div>Jackson Library, UNCG</div></div></div></div></div>
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