Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May was a public and academic librarian before she earned her doctorate degree and began teaching, and one of her very first teaching experiences was creating a user instruction class.
“How I designed that class was by using all the things I wish I had known as an academic librarian who was thrust into teaching with no real preparation,” she said.
This practical approach to teaching, combined with a conscious effort to be responsive to student needs and to highlight diverse perspectives, has molded Fleming-May’s teaching style for the 11 years she’s been at the School of … Read more “Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May Receives ALISE Teacher of the Year Award”
Dan Greene’s (’03) current life is immersed in information sciences: he’s an alum of SIS, he is the SIS technology coordinator, and he’s also an SIS lecturer. But information sciences wasn’t even on his radar when he was an undergraduate at East Tennessee State University. There, he switched majors so many times he almost lost count before he finally did graduate with a degree in history. But there were always two other fields that kept pulling at him throughout the years: computer science and librarianship.
For every single product you search for while shopping online, there are layers of data that led you to it. Granular data that has been dug up, categorized, standardized, and recorded by teams of people – people like Laura Creekmore (’17).
Being an educator has been an amazing and fulfilling career for Kathleen Smith, who currently works at Bearden Middle School in Knoxville teaching eighth grade English. But she’s known for a while there was going to be a next step in her career, and that was to become a school librarian.