Category: Kudos and Compliments

Kudos to all who participated in creating the library float for Homecoming. It was truly a fun afternoon, and we received many commendations for our cute kids and cute float! Thanks to the Friends of the SMU Libraries Board, CUL staff and their adorable little ones who paraded on and with the float….Continue Reading KUDOS to the “Love Your Library” Homecoming Float!

KUDOS to the following librarians for their recent promotions!   Hollie Gardner:                 User Experience Librarian, will be promoted to Librarian 2 Emily Grubbs:                    Archivist, Hamon Arts Library, will be promoted to Librarian 2 James Kessenides:           Humanities Research Librarian, will be promoted to Librarian 2 Cynthia Franco:                Special Collections Librarian, DeGolyer Library, will be promoted to…Continue Reading KUDOS to Four CUL Librarians for Promotions

Kudos to Melanie Golder and the ILL team for filling the first Occam’s reader request as part of the GWLA consortium. The e-book, Third International Handbook of Mathematics Education, was loaned to the University of Missouri. The book was 1,119 pages. How very exciting for CUL to be part of the first loan of an…Continue Reading Kudos to Melanie Golder and the ILL Team

Kudos to Sam Ratcliffe at the Hamon Arts Library for doing such a superb job as a judge at the Mat Hatter’s tea (style show and luncheon) held last week at the Dallas Arboretum. What great PR for the Hamon Library and Bywaters Special Collections! Way to go, Sam!!!…Continue Reading Kudos to Sam Ratcliffe

Kudos to Evelyn Day from Zoltan Szentkiralyi for building inroads to the Simmons School’s expanded research efforts! Her initiative in promoting the Simmons Colloquium Series on Survey Research and Design has resulted in my newly established connection with the statistical and survey research community at SMU….Continue Reading Kudos to Evelyn Day!

Kudos to Rob Walker from Bonnie Bazley in the Provost’s Office “for lending items from your great computer collection for our Data Center Naming of the Supercomputer event. They were the hit of the party!” Great job sharing our resources and touring Bonnie and Sarah around the library!…Continue Reading Kudos to Rob Walker

Kudos to Sara Outhier at the Hamon Arts Library for being re-classified from a Library Specialist 5 to a Librarian 1.  This re-classification and promotion comes from a growing need to work with Meadows faculty and students to incorporate digital asset management, metadata, rights management and discovery interfaces as demand for born-digital content has grown. …Continue Reading Kudos to Sara Outhier for her promotion to Librarian 1!

Kudos to Michelle Hahn in Technology Services for being promoted to Librarian 3! Michelle has been with us since 2008 as a music catalog librarian and has been actively involved in the Music Library Association, having recently served as co-editor of the Music Reference Services Quarterly.  In addition to her cataloging duties she provides reference service…Continue Reading Kudos to Michelle Hahn on her promotion to Librarian 3!

From:  Dean McCombs Great photo of a student and the therapy dogs in the Dallas Morning News Metro Section today. Great idea, Hollie – and thanks to all staff who participated in organizing and staffing the event. I know that our students were just delighted with this addition to our support services….Continue Reading Kudos to Hollie Gardner

Kudos to Hollie Gardner for inviting the team from Paws Across Texas to our library. This was a huge sucess and the students thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m sure they will want the dogs back for Spring finals. Great job, Hollie!…Continue Reading Kudos to Hollie Gardner and Paws Across Texas