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Meet the #IAMSLIC2022 presenters - first up Joyce M. Shaw and Megan Le

6 Oct 2022 21:12 | Hannah Russell (Administrator)

Over the next week or so we'll be spotlighting some of our #IAMSLIC2022 conference presenters.


Joyce and Megan are from the University of Southern Mississippi, where Joyce has been Head of Gunter Library at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (Ocean Springs, MS, USA) since December 1995. In 2008 Joyce was invited to join the faculty of University Libraries (The University of Southern Mississippi) as an associate professor, awarded tenure in 2009, and promoted to Professor in 2015. A 26-year member of IAMSLIC, in 2013-2015 she served as the SAIL Representative on the IAMSLIC board. She has served four terms as Chair of the Special Libraries Section of the Mississippi Library Association and is in her second term as chair of Atmospheric Science Librarians International. She is a graduate of Rosary College (now called Dominican University, River Forest, IL, USA) with an MLIS and Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL, USA) with an MA in Urban Studies. In 2022 she received The University of Southern Mississippi Excellence in Librarianship award. Megan is a recent MLIS graduate student of the University of Southern Mississippi, and is starting to train as a reference librarian.

Joyce and Megan will be presenting on "Books for children and young people to increase science information literacy about ocean pollution".

In her spare time Joyce is an active volunteer, with membership in and past president of the Rotary Club of Ocean Springs, an associate member of North Bay Civitan Club, and Co-Zone Captain for the Mississippi Coastal Clean-Up. Professionally, she is interested in scholarly communication, emergency and disaster preparedness, mentoring, and the history of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. Personally she is interested in volunteering, and collecting Matchbox, Hot Wheels, and other toy work vehicles, especially concrete mixers. Megan on the other hand has an interest in film studies, so please do talk to either of them about their interests (or anything else) during the conference!

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