Success Stories

 

Amy Sarola ‘11 MLS

is currently working at Oliver Wyman- Health and Life Sciences in New York City, doing pharmaceutical research. She’s also the Public Relations Chair of the governing board of SLA-NY.

Claire DiCioccio ’11 MLS

is currently a research consultant at The Quorum Initiative, an organization for women executives in international business, education, and government.

Christopher Ross’10 MLS,

a former Fulbright grant recipient, is working in Beijing at an education and admission consulting firm, Due West Education, where he oversees the graduate school consulting services.

Linda Miles ‘11 MLS

is now a Public Services Librarian at Yeshiva University in New York City, where she’s collaborating with the writing program to develop information literacy instruction to be incorporated into the undergraduate curriculum.

Denise McIver ’11 MLS

was recently featured in the February 2012 issue of Black Enterprise Magazine, in an article titled, “The 21st Century Librarian”: http://www.onlinedigitalpubs. com/display_article.php?id= 946862

Assemgul Temirkhanova ,

an Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program alumni and former DLIS student, is the Head of Information Resources Service at Nazarbayev University Library in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Katelyn Angell ’09 MLS

is leaving her position as a reference librarian at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY for one at Long Island University in Brooklyn. She recently presented at the DLIS Spring Symposium, on Progressive Librarianship and diversity in the library field. She has forthcoming articles in Library Journal and Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society.

Nicholas Kramer ’11 MLS

is currently working in the Special Data Projects Unit at The Foundation Center. He recently presented at the DLIS Spring Symposium on The Foundation Center: Resources on Philanthropy. He also blogs about politics and librarianship under the alias Corporate Dread http://corporatedread.tum blr.com

Taryn Rucinski ’12 MLS

recently had an article published in the Legal History and Rare Books AALL-SIS Newsletter, titled “Archive Spotlight: Water Resources Collections and Archives”: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/lh rb/lhrb.pdf

Barbara Deakin ’11 MLS

is self-employed as a real estate title closer; she is using her library training to develop a document management aspect to her job as a title closer. Since graduating she also worked for 6 months as a law librarian for Hughes Hubbard & Reed.

Dan Murphy ’10 MLS

 is employed at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP as an Information Specialist for Regulatory Initiatives. He oversees a client-facing website tracking the regulatory implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. Cleary’s efforts were recognized in the Financial Times 2011 “Business of Law” rankings.

Victoria Shimmons’11 MLS

works as a youth services librarian at the Farmingdale Public Library. She recently presented at the DLIS Spring Symposium on Children’s Reclassification: From Picture Books to Nonfiction.

Simonetta Gerbitz, ’12 MLS

will be pursuing her doctorate in Library and Information Science! She will begin studies in the Fall at LIU.