Melissa is doing her summer internship at the Kellogg Library. She is working on a variety of projects, including:

• Updating faculty biographies for collections purposes

• Updating various LibGuides

• Guiding patrons through resources available at the Kellogg

• Staffing the single point of service counter

• Working one-on-one with Kellogg patrons to develop search strategies for their research projects

Melissa is currently working on a thesis related to public health. “I come to the Kellogg with a long-standing interest in public health issues—I published on a public health topic in the most recent issue of the Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management,” she says.

 

Melissa has a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College in Saint Paul Minnesota and a Master’s and a PhD from the University at Buffalo, of the State University of New York. She has taught at the University of Nevada in Reno and in Halifax at Mount St. Vincent and Dalhousie.

“I enjoy teaching and take particular pleasure in the opportunity to help patrons learn about our resources and how to use them. I also have broad interests and enjoy learning many new things with each new research topic I encounter and each search I perform,” says Melissa. Her first library experience was in the Classics Department Library at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is entering into her second year of Dal’s MLIS program this fall.