[studentsuccesslibrarians] Welcome!

Fri Dec 13 17:35:11 UTC 2019

There is a national conference for First-Year Experience, here:
https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/national_resource_center/events/conferences/first-year_experience/

I am opting not to go because travelling from one corner of the country to
another is quite expensive, and the registration fee is $650 - but if
others are going, I'd love to hear what your experience is like.  I'm
opting to go to CLAPS and Library Instruction West, and possibly a couple
of others.

To fill out my bio, I graduated from the University of Washington in 2017,
and finished a role as an NCSU Libraries Fellow just before I came to the
University of San Francisco.  I identify as first-gen and QPOC.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 8:48 AM Melody Rood <mlrood at uncg.edu> wrote:

> Hi Reanna and Ruth!
>
> I'm glad to see more people joining in on the conversation, and that
> there's a variety of job titles with an emphasis on Student Success. Just
> out of curiosity, are any of you planning to go to conferences in 2020?
> Luckily, we're given a limited travel budget, but definitely not enough to
> attend all the ones I'm interested in. Some are SO expensive. The AACU has
> a DEI/Student Success conference next March in New Orleans, but I think
> registration is like $600? Anyway, please feel free to post any interesting
> conferences to the listserv--doesn't have to be specifically student
> success related. Happy Friday (the thirteenth)!
>
> Best,
> Melody
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 11:59 AM Ruth Monnier <rmonnier at pittstate.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Melody, Reanna, Nicky, and all!
>>
>> My name is Ruth Monnier (she/her/hers). Like Reanna, student success and
>> first-year experience are not in my job title and I have a similar
>> ambiguous title to explain. I am the Learning Outreach Librarian at
>> Pittsburg State University. In this role, I work with our Student Success
>> Programs on library orientation for all incoming students and as the job
>> description said "demonstrate a strong commitment to library user services
>> and programs that support student success."  I am new to my role and
>> southest Kansas as I started about 7 months ago. I am the second
>> individual at the library with this title. However, like Melody mentioned
>> it seems to be hard to give a quick overview of what I do to other
>> individuals. I am curious how others are fulfilling this mission of
>> supporting student success and as Melody said, what is the definition for
>> student success.
>>
>> I graduated from Kent State in August 2018 and previously worked in
>> public libraries. I would consider myself an early career professional, but
>> otherwise break the pattern of first-gen and POC.
>>
>> Look forward to learning and hearing from everyone,
>> Ruth
>>
>> Ps. Thanks again for starting the listserv, Melody!
>>
>> Ruth Monnier, MLIS
>> she/her/hers
>> Learning Outreach Librarian and Assistant Professor
>> Leonard H. Axe Library
>> Pittsburg State University
>> rmonnier at pittstate.edu
>> Office: 620-235-4885 <callto:620-235-4885>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* studentsuccesslibrarians <
>> studentsuccesslibrarians-bounces at wiw.org> on behalf of Reanna Esmail <
>> rke24 at cornell.edu>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:11 AM
>> *To:* Melody Rood <mlrood at uncg.edu>; Nicola Andrews <nandrews at uw.edu>;
>> studentsuccesslibrarians at wiw.org <studentsuccesslibrarians at wiw.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [studentsuccesslibrarians] Welcome!
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Thank you, Melody, for putting this together!
>>
>> I'd like to also introduce myself. My name is Reanna Esmail. While
>> student success and first-year experience are not in my job title, it is
>> similarly open-ended, subjective, and ambiguous. I am the Outreach and
>> Engagement Librarian at Cornell University. Part of my position includes
>> planning first year (undergraduate and graduate) library orientation,
>> developing learning materials, and creating programs for first-generation
>> students. Thus, I feel that student success falls under the purvue on job
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> I am also a recent librarian. I received my MSLIS this past May and
>> started my librarian position in June. I am also a POC and first-gen
>> college student, so perhaps there is a pattern here?
>>
>> Otherwise, I'm excited to be part of this group!
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Reanna
>>
>> P.S. I'm actually originally from the SF Bay Area. I will be in the Bay
>> for the winter break (12/24-1/4). If anyone wanted to meet for a coffee or
>> something, please reach out!
>>
>> *Reanna Esmail*
>>
>> Outreach and Engagement Librarian
>>
>> Research & Learning Services
>>
>> she/her/hers
>>
>>
>>
>> 106 Olin Library
>>
>> Cornell University
>>
>> Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* studentsuccesslibrarians <
>> studentsuccesslibrarians-bounces at wiw.org> on behalf of Melody Rood <
>> mlrood at uncg.edu>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:48 AM
>> *To:* Nicola Andrews <nandrews at uw.edu>
>> *Cc:* studentsuccesslibrarians at wiw.org <studentsuccesslibrarians at wiw.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [studentsuccesslibrarians] Welcome!
>>
>> 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
>>
>
>
> --
> 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
>

-- 
*Nicola Andrews, Ngāti Paoa*
University of Washington MLIS 2017
http://nicolaandrews.net/
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