Read Graduate Assistantships, Kent State University Libraries
The
Department of Special Collections and Archives in the Kent State University
Libraries recently appointed its first Read Graduate Assistants. The assistantships,
made possible by a generous donation from the Dr. Gerald H. and Victoria C. T.
Read family, are intended to provide intensive pre-professional experience in
special collections and archives to students enrolled in the School of Library
and Information and Science (SLIS). The awards, the first-ever graduate
assistantships offered by the Kent State University Libraries, are merit-based
and include a stipend plus a tuition scholarship.
One
of the initial projects of the Read Graduate Assistants will be to continue
processing and cataloging the vast CIES archive, housed in the Kent State
University Special Collections department. More information on the Read family
donation is available at www.kent.edu/media/NewsReleases/Read-gift.cfm
(left-right) Stephen Paschen, Kent State
University Archivist,
with Read Assistants Robin Katz and Celia Halkovich
Read Graduate Assistants Profiles:
Celia R. Halkovich is enrolled in her
second year of study in SLIS. She is a 1996 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh
where she earned a bachelor of arts majoring in Spanish, with a minor in
sociology. While at Pittsburgh she also
participated in a summer study abroad in Puebla,
Mexico, at the
Universidad de las Américas.
She is a member of the Society of Ohio Archivists, Society of American
Archivists, and the Special Libraries Association.
Robin M. Katz will be entering the SLIS program starting in
Fall 2007. She is a 2006 summa cum laude graduate
of Brandeis University where she completed a double
major in English and American Literature and European Cultural Studies, and
minored in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. While at Brandeis, she also
participated in a study abroad program at the University of Leeds.
Prior to her appointment at Kent State, she was an English language assistant at the Lycée Kléber, Strasbourg,
France, and a tutor of
English at McDonogh 35 High School in New Orleans, Louisiana.