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Linnea Shieh
MLIS, 2009
After nine years at Google as a data analyst, Linnea left in February 2019. She has taken on a new position in the library world as Engineering Librarian for Data and Collections at Stanford University, her undergrad alma mater.
Gina Strack
MLIS, 2009
Gina was honored with the 2022 CIMA Service Award from the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists (CIMA), an association of archivist, conservators, historians, and archival professionals from Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, and New Mexico. The CIMA Service Award is given to an individual who has made significant contributions in recent years to the CIMA organization, to the archival institutions of the intermountain region, and to the archival profession. The award is given in appreciation for service, leadership, and support of the region’s archival community.
Deborah Turner
PhD, 2009
In 2014, Deborah was awarded an Early Career Development research grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The grant supports her project “The Oral Present, Urban Library Services, and the Underserved,” which directly builds on her doctoral work. Her research sites include the Cleveland Public Library, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Seattle Public Library.
Lia Vella
MLIS, 2009
Lia works for the National Park Service's Library Information Management program, as its first Metadata Coordinator. She's training field personnel at hundreds of park libraries to enter holdings and other information into NPS's enterprise-level catalog as well as doing marketing and outreach to NPS and other federal and public stakeholders.
Jen Waller
MLIS, 2009
In January 2020, Jen was promoted to Director of Open Initiatives and Scholarly Communication at the University of Oklahoma. She recently published "From Start-Up to Adolescence: University of Oklahoma’s OER Efforts" in OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians and "Dissertation-to-Book Publication Patterns Among a Sample of R1 Institutions" in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. She serves on the steering committee for the Open Textbook Network, and manages OU's Alternative Textbook Grant, which has saved OU students $3.1 million in course material costs.
Jason Wyttenbach
Informatics, 2009
Jason is Senior Operations Network Engineer for Ericsson, specializing in core LTE network systems.
Sueng-yon Yu
MSIM, 2009
Seung-yon works for T-Mobile as a Commissions Analyst.
Jack Baur
MLIS, 2008
Jack was promoted to Supervising Librarian of the Berkeley Public Library North Branch in March 2016.
Lynly Beard
MLIS, 2008
Lynly is working as a Library Technician III at the UW Health Sciences Library.
Elke Bernal Bruton
MLIS, 2008
Elke is the program manager for the Oregon Talking Book and Braille Library at the State Library of Oregon.