Former Atkins Fellows have gone on to do some amazing things in libraries and archives, both with their fellows projects, and beyond. Below we highlight some of the former fellows and their accomplishments.
Turning fellows projects into presentations and publications
Atkins Fellows projects can turn into presentations and publications! At least fifteen poster presentations at various conferences have resulted from Atkins Fellows projects. Below are some of the presentations and publications.
Brigid McCreery (2023) and our Digital Scholarship Librarian, Savannah Lake presented on their Atkins Fellows project at the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians and Technical Services Section Conference and the North Carolina Library Association Biennial Conference.
Stephannie Regenauer (2022) and our Digital Scholarship Librarian, Savannah Lake presented their Atkins Fellows project at ACRL 2023, and have an article forthcoming in Library Resources & Technical Services.
Georgia Westbrook (2019) published research from her Atkins Fellows project in an annotated bibliography on institutional repositories and library publishing in Codex, the open access journal of the Louisiana chapter of ACRL.
Erin Gallagher (2017) and our University Archivist, Katie Howell published an article about their Atkins Fellows project in the Journal of the Society of North Carolina Archivists: “Laying the Groundwork for a Born-Digital Records Management Program.” Erin is the Systems Integration Librarian for the State Archives of North Carolina.
Natalie Ornat (2017) presented her Atkins Fellows project at the biennial conference of the North Carolina Library Association and later published an article in C&RL News with her project supervisor, Renee Moorefield: "Process Mapping as an Academic Library Tool." She currently works full time at Atkins Library as our Humanities Librarian.
Julia Glauberman (2015) wrote about her curriculum mapping project with our Engineering Librarian, Jeff McAdams in the conference proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.
Contributions to our profession
LaQuanda T. Onyemeh (2017) co-founded WOC+Lib with Lorin Jackson as a platform for WOC/POC in librarianship. Follow them at @wocandlib
Karna Younger (2015) Stephen Krueger (2016) and Natalie Ornat (2017) all participated in the ALA Emerging Leaders program.
Stephen Krueger (2016) is the Affordable Course Content Librarian at University of Kentucky Libraries. He published an article in Public Services Quarterly on "Serving Transgender Patrons in Academic Libraries" (Preprint) and published a book on the topic: Supporting Trans People in Libraries (ABC-CLIO). He is also co-editor of Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries. In 2017 he founded the Trans and Gender Diverse LIS Network, a group for trans and gender-variant library workers and students.
Karna Younger (2015) published an open textbook with her colleagues at the University of Kansas Libraries on information literacy for journalism, PR, advertising, and marketing students. Karna is currently the OER Librarian and project coordinator for the Open Educational Resources (OER) for Social Justice grant.
Erin Baucom (2015) is Digital Archivist at the University of Montana. She published “An Exploration into Archival Descriptions of LGBTQ Materials” in a 2018 issue of The American Archivist and authored the August/September 2019 Library Technology Reports, “Planning and Implementing a Sustainable Digital Preservation Program.”
You can learn more about former fellows from the profiles they created about themselves while participating in the program. You can also read some testimonials about participating in the program.
Return to the Atkins Fellows homepage to learn more about the program and to register for the informational session.