[studentsuccesslibrarians] Welcome!

[Melody Rood]

Hi Nicola!
Thank you for the introduction! Your research goals sound really
interesting! Now that you mention it, the Student Success librarians that
I've met (only a few) fit that description--myself included. I'm early
career and mixed POC/ first gen. I went to a conference earlier this year
that talked about how Diversity Residents often move on to jobs like
FYE/Student Success positions, so I definitely think there's something
there. I actually have some research goals that similarly align with this
topic, so we should keep in touch in the future.

Well, it's nice to meet you! I hope others will join in on the
conversations. I was told listservs are commonly marked as spam, which is
what I believe is happening here. So hopefully folks will eventually
realize it and mark the listserv address otherwise. Good luck to you and
everybody else during final exam season!

Best,
Melody

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 5:11 PM Nicola Andrews <nandrews at uw.edu> wrote:

> 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/
>
>

-- 
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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