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Meet Jonathan Wilson, Diversity Champion, Jonathan Wilson Dec 2022

Meet Jonathan Wilson, Diversity Champion, Jonathan Wilson

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Jonathan Wilson is the Outreach & Distance Library Services Coordinator/Assistant Professor at the Charles C. Sherrod Library.

The purpose of the Office of Equity and Inclusion is to maintain a close relationship with the faculty and staff to guarantee that our institutional culture, practices, and processes ensure a mode of interaction that will counteract, neutralize, and progressively overcome regressive and resistant patterns of discrimination that still persist in the higher education workplace and our region [...]


When Covid Struck The Personal Librarian Program Came To The Rescue, Jonathan R. Wilson Apr 2022

When Covid Struck The Personal Librarian Program Came To The Rescue, Jonathan R. Wilson

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The COVID pandemic changed life as we know it and transformed how we taught classes and acquired knowledge. And The ETSU Sherrod Library, with the help of Jonathan Wilson, Distance/ Online Service Coordinator addressed these challenges by developing The Personal Librarian (PL) program for students.


Bringing A University Library’S Juvenile Collection Into The 21st Century, Tiffany Watson, Kallie Gay, Wendy Doucette Apr 2022

Bringing A University Library’S Juvenile Collection Into The 21st Century, Tiffany Watson, Kallie Gay, Wendy Doucette

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To revitalize their aging and often overlooked juvenile collection, a team of librarians at East Tennessee State University's Charles C. Sherrod Library sought ways to modernize, diversify, and promote the collection to better serve their campus community.


Expanding Technology Access To Increase Retention, Jonathan R. Wilson, Jeri Paddock Feb 2022

Expanding Technology Access To Increase Retention, Jonathan R. Wilson, Jeri Paddock

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In Fall semester 2021, Sherrod Library at ETSU provided the Personal Librarian (PL) program to First Generation and Transfer students. The PL contacts over 1600 students weekly by email, providing a newsletter with University and Library services. The PL also connected on a personal level with a YouTube video bi-monthly. The program was designed to build a relationship with the students so that they are comfortable asking for help and feel more confident in their ability to receive assistance.