Spotlighting SLIS Faculty Dr. Laura Clark Hunt, SLIS alum Floyce Thomas, and the Fay B. Kaigler Children\u27s Book Festival

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SLIS Connecting Volume 10 Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2021 Article 2 2021 Spotlights: Faculty, Alumna, Kaigler Children's Book Festival Stacy Creel, Ph.D. University of Southern Mississippi, Stacy.Creel@usm.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting  Part of the Archival Science Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, Scholarly Communication Commons, and the Scholarly Publishing Commons Recommended Citation Creel, Ph.D., Stacy (2021) "Spotlights: Faculty, Alumna, Kaigler Children's Book Festival," SLIS Connecting: Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 , Article 2. DOI: 10.18785/slis.1001.02 Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/vol10/iss1/2 This Column is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in SLIS Connecting by an authorized editor of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact Joshua.Cromwell@usm.edu. Spotlight—Faculty:  Dr. Laura Clark Hunt joined the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) School of Library and Information Science in Fall 2021. She comes to the School of Library and Information Science with ten years' of experience in public and academic libraries. Her dissertation focused on emergent literacy in public libraries and was noted as one of the most Notable Dissertations for 2017 by American Libraries https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2017/05/01/2 017-notable-dissertations/. Laura was part of a fellowship in 2017-2018 at the Florida Public Archaeology Network assessing public outreach programs throughout Florida. This project focused on reaching the public with the message of cultural heritage. Assessed programs varied from museum children's programming to underwater preservation programs for dive masters. Before coming to USM, her last position was an academic library director at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. She served on the University System of Georgia Committee with other college directors for the state. Needs-Based Research is at the core of Laura's interest, along with collaborative research projects, as they offer opportunities for interdisciplinary discovery and impact. Her specific interests include cultural heritage, assessment in libraries, information literacy, and management in libraries. Spotlight—Alum Mississippi native, Floyce Thomas, earned an Associate of Arts in Early Childhood Education from Utica Junior college and a Bachelor of Science in Childcare Development. She has two masters—a Master's in Elementary Education from Alcorn State University and a Master's of Library and Information Science Degree from Southern Miss in 2016. After working as a library clerical assistant in both serials and acquisitions, on March 13, 2017, Floyce joined Alcorn State University as a Serials Librarian in the J. D. Boyd Library. She acts as the departmental liaison for various departments on campus, including the School of Business, Mathematics and Computer Science, Chemistry and Physics, Fine Arts, and Agricultural Business. Floyce's goal for those she works with on campus is to demonstrate how to successfully use the library resources and promote all of the useful library services. She holds memberships in Mississippi Library Association and the American Library Association, including Black Caucus RT and YPSRT (Young People Service Round Table); serves as a Student Advisor for Friends of the Library Student Group and the IMPACT Community Service Organization, a member of the ASU Alumni Local Chapter, and a member of the Alcorn Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Spotlight—Program "The Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival The dates for the virtual 2022 Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival are April 6-8, 2022. Our Southern Miss Medallion winner is award-winning author and illustrator Brian Selznick, the author and illustrator of many books for children, including The Invention of Hugo Cabret, winner of the 2008 Caldecott medal and the basis for the Oscar-winning movie Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese. His book Wonderstruck was also made into a movie by Todd Haynes with a screenplay by Brian. Other books include The Marvels, The Doll People trilogy by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley (winner of a Caldecott Honor), and Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan. Brian and his husband David Serlin collaborated on a 158-page beginning reader called Baby Monkey, Private Eye. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the beloved Harry Potter series, Brian created new covers and a box for all seven books. His newest book, Kaleidoscope, was published in 2021. Additional keynotes include: Jen Bryant is an American poet, novelist, and children's author. She has won several awards for her work, most notably the Robert F. Sibert International Book Medal for The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award, and the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award for A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, and the Schneider Family Book Award for Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille. Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome are the de Grummond Children's Literature Lecturers for 2022. Lesa's debut middle-grade novel, Finding Langston, was the 2019 winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and received the Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor. Her newest book, Leaving Lymon, is a companion novel to Finding Langston. Lesa's husband James Ransome was named by The Children's Book Council as one of the 75 authors and illustrators everyone should know. James and Lesa have collaborated on many books, including Overground Railroad and Before She Was Harriet. Raúl the Third is an award-winning illustrator, author, and artist living in Boston. His work centers on the contemporary Mexican-American experience and his memories of growing up in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.  Lowriders in Space was nominated for a Texas Blue Bonnet award in 2016-2017, and Raúl was awarded the prestigious Pura Belpré Award for Illustration for Lowriders to the Center of the Earth. Eric L. Tribunella is the author of Melancholia and Maturation: The Use of Trauma in American Children's Literature (2010), co-author of Reading Children's Literature: A Critical Introduction (2013 & 2019) with Carrie Hintz. His articles include "Between Boys: Edward Stevenson's Left to Themselves (1891) and the Birth of Gay Children's Literature," which received the Children's Literature Association Article Award in 2014. His essay on sexuality in children's and young adult literature was published in the Cambridge History of Lesbian and Gay Literature (Cambridge UP, 2014). Donna Washington is the 2022 Coleen Salley Storytelling Award Winner. Donna is an award-winning recording artist and has performed at thousands of schools and libraries and numerous storytelling festivals throughout the country. She has also been featured at numerous storytelling festivals, including the 2004 National Storytelling Festival, The Illinois Storytelling Festival, The Three Rivers Festival, The St. Louis Storytelling Festival, The NC StoryFest, The Corn Island and Cave Run Festivals in KY, and the Broward County Children's & Ocala Storytelling Festivals in FL- to name a few. There will be a reduced registration rate for the 2022 Children's Book Festival, and CEUs will still be offered to Mississippi educators. Registered virtual participants will have access to live sessions and recordings. All information and updates about the Festival will be posted on the website at www.usm.edu/childrens-book-festival.    

Spotlights: Faculty, Alumna, Kaigler Children\u27s Book Festival

Dr. Sarah Mangrum joined the School of Library and Information Science faculty at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) as an Assistant Teaching Professor in Fall 2021. Carlos B. Crockett, Reference Library at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library earned his Master’s in Library and Information Science at The University of Southern Mississippi (2013). A star-studded Virtual 2022 Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival takes place on April 6-8, 2022 with Brian Selznick (Medallion winner), Jen Bryant, Nic Stone and Angie Thomas, Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome, Raúl the Third, Eric L. Tribunella and Donna Washington

Stacy Creel, Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting Volume 10 Issue 2 Article 2 2021 Spotlights: Faculty, Alum, Kaigler Children's Book Festival Stacy Creel, Ph.D. Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting  Part of the Archival Science Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, Scholarly Communication Commons, and the Scholarly Publishing Commons Recommended Citation Stacy Creel, Ph.D. (2021) "Spotlights: Faculty, Alum, Kaigler Children's Book Festival," SLIS Connecting: Vol. 10 : Iss. 2 , Article 2. DOI: 10.18785/slis.1002.02 Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/vol10/iss2/2 This Column is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in SLIS Connecting by an authorized editor of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact Joshua.Cromwell@usm.edu. Spotlight—Faculty:  Dr. Sarah Mangrum joined the School of Library and Information Science faculty at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) as an Assistant Teaching Professor in Fall 2021, after serving as an Adjunct since 2019. She received her Doctor of Education in Higher Education Administration in 2019 and Master of Library and Information Science in 2011 from Southern Miss. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor’s in Communications from Southeastern Louisiana University in 2005. Dr. Mangrum teaches two literature courses, the research course, the academic libraries course, and more.  Dr. Mangrum began working for University Libraries at Southern Miss in the fall of 2008. During her tenure at Cook Library she served in various roles in Access Services including Access Services and Assessment Librarian at Cook Library after completing her MLIS. She served as the Vice-President, President, and Immediate Past President of the Mississippi Library Association from 2017-2019. Currently, Dr. Mangrum serves as the Southeastern Library Association Councilor for the Mississippi Library Association and sits on steering committee for the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival.  Dr. Mangrum’s doctoral capstone studied library physical space usage and administrator perceptions of usage in academic libraries and was published in the Journal of Access Services in April 2020. She also has a book chapter in Persistence through Peril: Episodes of College Life and Academic Endurance in the Civil War South that was published by the University Press of Mississippi in September 2021.  Spotlight—Alum: Carlos B. Crockett, Reference Library at the Terrebonne Parish Main Library in Houma, Louisiana, earned his undergraduate degree from the University of New Orleans and then his Master’s in Library and Information Science at The University of Southern Mississippi (2013).  While at Southern Miss, he was a recipient of The Warren Tracy Award for Professionalism, Scholarship, and Service. In addition to his outstanding scholastic record, faculty were especially impressed with his drive to reach underserved youth populations in Louisiana and his service as a mentor. After completing his MLIS, he continued his passion for working with youth and published on the topic—“Urban Youth and Public Libraries” was published by Public Libraries Public libraries, Vol.53 (5) in January, 2015. As a public reference librarian, he is responsible for helping library customers with their information needs and wants, instructing them on reputable reference sources, teaching computer classes and ESL classes, and conducting library programming.  He also writes for the library blog on local history and genealogy—for example: https://mytpl.org/project/a-brief-history-of-steamboats-in-the-south/. Carlos Crockett is a member of the Louisiana Library Association and the American Library Association.  He is married to Liz Utley Crockett and is the father of Cherish Crockett and Cierra Crockett, all of Houma, Louisiana.   Spotlight—Program “The Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival The dates for the Virtual 2022 Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival are April 6-8, 2022. Our Southern Miss Medallion winner is award-winning author and illustrator, Brian Selznick, author and illustrator of many books for children, including The Invention of Hugo Cabret, winner of the 2008 Caldecott medal and the basis for the Oscar-winning movie Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese. His book Wonderstruck was also made into a movie by Todd Haynes with a screenplay by Brian.  Other books include The Marvels, The Doll People trilogy by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley (winner of a Caldecott Honor) and Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan. Brian and his husband David Serlin collaborated on a 158 page beginning reader called Baby Monkey, Private Eye.  To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the beloved Harry Potter series, Brian created new covers and a box for all seven books. His newest book Kaleidoscope was published in 2021. Additional keynotes include: Jen Bryant is an American poet, novelist, and children's author. She has won several awards for her work, most notably the Robert F. Sibert International Book Medal for The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award and the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award for A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, and the Schneider Family Book Award for Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille.  Lesa Cline-Ransome  and James Ransome are the de Grummond Childnen’s Literature Lecturers for 2022.  Lesa’s debut middle grade novel, Finding Langston, was the 2019 winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and received the Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor.  Her newest book, Leaving Lymon, is a companion novel to Finding Langston.  Lesa’s husband James Ransome was named by The Children’s Book Council as one of the 75 authors and illustrators everyone should know.  James and Lesa have collaborated on many books including Overground Railroad and Before She Was Harriet. Raúl the Third is an award-winning illustrator, author, and artist living in Boston. His work centers on the contemporary Mexican-American experience and his memories of growing up in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.  Lowriders in Space was nominated for a Texas Blue Bonnet award in 2016-2017 and Raúl was awarded the prestigious Pura Belpré Award for Illustration for Lowriders to the Center of the Earth.  Eric L. Tribunella the author of Melancholia and Maturation: The Use of Trauma in American Children's Literature (2010), co-author of Reading Children's Literature: A Critical Introduction (2013 & 2019) with Carrie Hintz. His articles include "Between Boys: Edward Stevenson's Left to Themselves (1891) and the Birth of Gay Children's Literature," which received the Children's Literature Association Article Award in 2014. His essay on sexuality in children's and young adult literature was published in the Cambridge History of Lesbian and Gay Literature (Cambridge UP, 2014). Donna Washington is the 2022 Coleen Salley Storytelling Award Winner.  Donna is an award-winning recording artist and has performed at thousands of schools, libraries, and storytelling festivals throughout the country. She has also been featured at numerous storytelling festivals including the 2004 National Storytelling Festival, The Illinois Storytelling Festival, The Three Rivers Festival, The St. Louis Storytelling Festival, The NC StoryFest, The Corn Island and Cave Run Festivals in KY, and the Broward County Children's & Ocala Storytelling Festivals in FL—just to name a few. There will be a reduced registration rate of $100 for the 2022 Children’s Book Festival, and up to 5.3 CEUs will still be offered to Mississippi educators. Registered virtual participants will have access to live sessions and recordings.  All information and updates about the Festival will be posted on the website at www.usm.edu/childrens-book-festival.      Registration Information Registration for the 2022 Virtual Festival is $100 and up to 5.3 CEUs will be offered to Mississippi educators. Registered virtual participants will have access to live sessions and recordings.   At this time we are not able to accept cash registration payments.  Information can be found here: https://www.usm.edu/childrens-book-festival/  Questions about registration?  Please email our registration coordinator Ashley Marshall.  

Spotlights: Faculty, Alum, Kaigler Children\u27s Book Festival

Meet Dr. Brendan Fay, new Associate Director, and alumni Kristen Hillman, and get insights on the Fay B. Kaigler 2023 Children\u27s Book Festival

Stacy Creel, Ph.D. USM SLIS

SLIS Connecting Volume 11 Issue 1 Article 2 2022 Spotlights: Faculty, Alum, Kaigler Children's Book Festival Stacy Creel, Ph.D. USM SLIS Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting  Part of the Archival Science Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, Scholarly Communication Commons, and the Scholarly Publishing Commons Recommended Citation Stacy Creel, Ph.D. USM SLIS (2022) "Spotlights: Faculty, Alum, Kaigler Children's Book Festival," SLIS Connecting: Vol. 11: Iss. 1, Article 2. DOI: 10.18785/slis.1101.02 Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/vol11/iss1/2 This Column is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in SLIS Connecting by an authorized editor of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact Joshua.Cromwell@usm.edu. Spotlight—Faculty:  Dr. Brendan Fay Brendan Fay joined SLIS in July 2022 as an Associate Director and Associate Professor. Prior to coming to Southern Miss, he served seven years as faculty member in library science at Emporia State University and also worked as an Instructional Librarian at Wasburn University in Topeka, KS. He hold as B.A. in History from The University of Texas—Austin and earned his M.L.S. and Ph.D. from Indiana University. He teaches a broad array of courses across the core curriculum, including in the fall semester where he is teaching the undergraduate course “Cataloging and Classification” and the graduate course “Reference and Information Services”.  Dr. Fay comes to SLIS with strong research interests in book and information history, particularly as these relate to twentieth-century Germany. He is interested in how ordinary Germans understood the world and Germany’s place in it amid the backdrop of war and genocide, and how these perspectives compared with people living in other kinds of closed societies, whether Stalinist Russia or fascist Italy. He is currently researching the role of conspiracy theories during Nazism and is working on a book project tentatively titled The Power of Conspiracy: Nazi Information Worlds between Weimar and the Third Reich. This research informs his teaching, and he plans to offer an array of electives within SLIS going forward—from conspiracy theories in the modern world to history of libraries to contemporary publishing.  Spotlight—Alum: Kristen Hillman was born in and spent summers in North Carolina, grew up in Florence, MS, and has been a fan of the public library since before she can even remember. Her mother, Roma, read to her during a nightly routine that took all of about 15 minutes, but made a lasting, lifetime impact. It was then that she discovered some of her favorite friends, such as Syd Hoff’s Dinosaur, Francois Crozat’s Little Cat, and all sorts of characters from a plethora of Halloween-related picture books. Kristen has always loved working with youth and children, so she decided to get her B.A. in Secondary English Education at the University of Mississippi and teach English II, AP English III, Creative Writing, Theater I and II, and English IV. In 2017, Kristen left the classroom and began anew at Pearl Public Library (CMRLS) that same year and has not looked back since.  Now, with an incredible staff of talented women at the Ridgeland Public Library, Kristen is branch manager of her very own public library. After much thought and a lot of reflection about returning to school, Kristen, finally, received her MLIS through the University of Southern Mississippi in December of 2019. Though she is proud to be a lifetime native of the South, Kristen has not always liked what she has seen, and experienced firsthand working with youth who were at-risk of dropping out of school,  or the ways that marginalized individuals and groups are treated. That is why she and her staff at the Ridgeland Library are committed to making sure that issues like bigotry, racism, and the taking away of basic human rights are addressed directly and are not allowed to prosper in our library. All are welcome and represented here!        Spotlight—Program “The Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival We are pleased to announce that the 2023 Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival will once again be in person April 12-14, 2023, on the Southern Miss campus in Hattiesburg, MS.  The 2023 Southern Miss Medallion winner is Gene Luen Yang. Gene Luen Yang- 2023 Southern Miss Medallion Winner Gene Luen Yang joined the Kaigler Festival family in 2015 as a keynote and we are delighted to celebrate his return as the 2023 Southern Miss Medallion winner.  Gene Luen Yang began making comics and graphic novels in the fifth grade. In 2006, his book American Born Chinese was published by First Second Books.  It became the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award and the first to win the American Library Association’s Printz Award. It also won an Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album – New. In 2013, First Second Books released Boxers & Saints, a two-volume graphic novel about the Boxer Rebellion.  Boxers & Saints was nominated for a National Book Award and won the L.A. Times Book Prize. Yang has done numerous other comics, including Dark Horse Comics’ continuation of Avatar: The Last Airbender and DC Comics’ Superman! Amy Bluemel- Coleen Salley Storytelling Award Winner Amy Bruton Bluemel is a gifted storyteller and educator, artist, and stomp dancer. As the great-granddaughter of Eastman Kaney (an original Dawes Commission enrollee), Amy’s a proud member of the Chickasaw Nation. She often performs with the dance troupe Chikashsha Hithla. She shares Chickasaw customs (and those of other southeastern tribes) with audiences of all ages through lively programs. Amy was one of 36 Native American artists chosen to show and sell her art at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Native American Art Market in Washington DC 2019.  Linda Williams-Jackson Author of critically acclaimed, Mississippi-based historical novels Midnight Without a Moon, A Sky Full of Stars, and The Lucky Ones, Linda is plum-picking proud to still call Mississippi home. Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta in the teeny-tiny town of Rosedale, Linda Williams Jackson likes to spin stories about everyday people in small-town settings.  Ann Clare LeZotte Ann Le Zotte is completely deaf and a bilingual-bicultural (ASL/English) member of Deaf community. Ann supports every kind of D/deaf person and the choices they make in terms of communication (she is oral and lipreads) and assistive hearing devices (she doesn’t wear any). She has worked in public library youth services for over twelve years, with a focus on intergenerational ASL literacy and inclusive programming. An inclusive cis lesbian (she/her), she was a pioneer in working with LGBTQIAP+ teens in her district.  Loren Long- de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection Lecturer Loren Long is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling picture books Otis, Otis and the Tornado, and other Otis titles. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of President Barack Obama's picture book Of Thee I Sing, Matt de la Pena’s Love, the re-illustrated edition of The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper, and Mr. Peabody's Apples by Madonna. Loren's new edition of Clement C. Moore’s The Night Before Christmas is a modern, more inclusive take on the classic. His most recent works are Someone Builds the Dream by Lisa Wheeler and Change Sings written by Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman.  Kyle Lukoff Kyle Lukoff writes books for kids and other people. Before becoming a full-time writer, Kyle worked at five bookstores, in four libraries, for three schools, as two genders, through one intersection: people, and books. Kyle is represented by Saba Sulaiman at Talcott Notch. Find him on Twitter at @KyleLukoff, Instagram at @kylelukoffwrites and Facebook at fb.me/kylelukoffwrites. All purchasing links are through his affiliate page at Bookshop.org. Vikram Madan Vikram Madan grew up in India where, despite spending his childhood rhyming and doodling, he ended up an engineer. After many years of working in tech, he finally came to his senses and followed his heart back into living the creative life. When not making whimsical paintings and public art, he writes funny poems and books for kids, including A Hatful of Dragons, The Bubble Collector, Lord of the Bubbles, Bobo & PupPup, and Owl & Penguin.  Angie Manfredi- Southern Miss SLIS Lecturer Angie Manfredi is a librarian, writer, and editor. She has a special interest in and focus on spotlighting and uplifting marginalized voices in both youth literature and librarianship. She passionately advocates, in the words of Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, giving readers “mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors” in all the books shared with them. Angie is fat and not sorry about it.   Please visit https://www.usm.edu/childrens-book-festival for information on registration and updates on the Festival.  We email Festival updates via Constant Contact.  Please email Festival Coordinator Karen Rowell at karen.rowell@usm.edu to be added to the Kaigler mailing list. Questions about registration?  Please email our registration coordinator Ashley Marshall at ashley.marshall@usm.edu.    

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