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Dana Bostrom
MLIS, 1999
Dana is the new executive director of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of 39 college and university libraries in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
Frederick Brown
MLIS, 1999
Frederick is an independent historian based in Seattle and has written histories for the National Park Service. His new book, "The City is More Than Human: An Animal History of Seattle," was recently published by the University of Washington Press.
Debbie Chavez
MLIS, 1999
Debbie started a nonprofit, Libraries for the World, to create libraries in areas of the world that don't have easy access to books.
Kari Costello
MLIS, 1999
Kari works as a case aide for a foster care agency. She loves the kids and cares about the work. She is also open to professional opportunities.
Andrea Gonzalez (Cooper)
MLIS, 1999
Andrea began working as a library media technician in 2018 at Marvin Dutcher Middle School in Turlock, California. Prior to this position, Andrea worked as a youth services librarian for the Sacramento Public Library System and as a Librarian II for the Stockton/San Joaquin Public Library System.
Tammy Siebenberg
MLIS, 1999
Tammy was promoted to Director of Library & Media Services at Yakima Valley Community College in May 2015.
Kathy Swart
MLIS, 1999
Kathy published a conference proceedings paper in Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (LXII) and has a book chapter in the 2020 ACRL publication, Intersections of Open Educational Resources and Information Literacy.
Traci Timmons
MLIS, 1999
Traci published "The New Art Museum Library" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) which addresses the issues facing today's art museum libraries through a series of scholarly essays written by top librarians in the field. More at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538135693/The-New-Art-Museum-Library.
Susan Anderson-Newman
MLIS, 1998
Susan was identified by Library Journal as a 2013 Mover and Shaker for her work as an Early Learning Supervising Librarian, and former storyteller, in the Pierce County Library System.
Zoe Holbrooks
MLIS, 1998
In 2012, Zoe was accepted into the University of Washington's Nonprofit Management Certificate program and plans to establish a non-profit organization based on a project that she and her iSchool colleagues developed in 1998. The Talking Leaves Book Giveaway Project collects and distributes books and other materials to Native communities throughout the nation.