Amelia Midgett-Nicholson is the Global Engagement Fellow at Atkins Library. She is currently a MSLS student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is interested in reference, instruction, and promoting equity and diversity in academic libraries.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the American University and went on to work as a Library Associate with the Greensboro Public Library. After 3 years, she decided to pursue her MSLS degree and a career in academic librarianship. In the past year at UNC Chapel Hill, Amelia has served as a Reference and Instructional Services Graduate Assistant, working at the Davis Library reference desk and teaching information literacy classes at the Undergraduate Library. She has also worked on a NC Court of Appeals quality assurance project at the Everett Law Library and a government documents cataloging project at Davis Library. In addition, Amelia serves as President of SCALA (Student Chapter of the American Library Association) working to connect her classmates with professional development opportunities.
She looks forward to using her own travel experiences to inform her work as Global Engagement Fellow, especially her time studying abroad at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.