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SI SpotlightJolie Valentine (MSI '04)
"A lot of people here just believe so passionately in what they're doing, and there are just so many different ideas and so many different perspectives all in one place."
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Before SI: Earned a degree in history from California State Polytech. Worked in school libraries in the Bonita Unified School District in southern California.
At SI: Helped found the Student Association of School Librarians at SI (now the Youth and School Librarians → student group). Published an article on SI's School Library Media program (PDF) → in Media Spectrum, the journal of the Michigan Association for Media in Education (MAME). Also presented a session at MAME's annual conference, along with SI colleague Caroline Hughes, on "The Internet Public Library and Other Web Resources for Student-directed Research."
Did her student teaching (needed to get state teacher certification) at Ypsilanti High School and Estabrook Elementary School in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Also worked in a Wayne County Community College District library.
Spent her first Alternative Spring Break (ASB) working in the archives of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in D.C.: "For a week I got be an archivist, and I got to see what they do." Spent her second ASB in the Brooklyn Public Library: "I've never seen people who love their jobs as much as these people love their jobs."
After SI: Now a media specialist in the Plymouth-Canton (Michigan) Community Schools, where her "March is Reading Month" activities -- which include an in-library campground -- have been featured in the Detroit News. Her article "Our Community, Our Library:
Women, Schools, and Popular Culture in the Public Library Movement" (based on her undergraduate history thesis) has recently been published in the Public Library Quarterly.
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