[studentsuccesslibrarians] Welcome!

[Nicola Andrews]

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.

So anyway - hello!  Thank you Melody for starting this listserv, and I hope
it leads to some fruitful and supportive conversations.

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 6:56 AM Melody Rood <mlrood at uncg.edu> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> 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!
>
> 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!
>
> 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!
>
> To share the link to join:
> https://wiw.org/mailman/listinfo/studentsuccesslibrarians
>
> Best Wishes,
> Melody
>
> --
> Melody Rood (she/her/hers)
> <https://intercultural.uncg.edu/student-advocacy-outreach/lgbt-community/lgbtq-resources/trans-resources/why-pronouns-matter>
> Assistant Professor & Student Success Librarian
> Liaison to International & Global Studies
> Jackson Library, UNCG
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-- 
*Nicola Andrews, Ngāti Paoa*
University of Washington MLIS 2017
http://nicolaandrews.net/
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