Faculty Advisor Name
Lynn Eaton
Description
This poster will illustrate the interdisciplinary, engaged learning and creative activities that have taken place during the first year of the new MALA (Madison Academic Library Associates) graduate assistantship program. Liana Bayne and Caroline Hamby are JMU Libraries’ first dedicated graduate assistants, and have spent the 2015-16 school year piloting the program. The two-year program’s curriculum includes library school-inspired learning modules alongside hands-on, project-based activities monitored and mentored by varying divisions of LET (Libraries & Educational Technologies) staff. Bayne and Hamby look forward to completing large-scale capstone project work in the second year of this program. Bayne and Hamby work most often at the intersection of the digital humanities and traditional library archival work, giving them a diverse skill set that looks to the future of library sciences. The MALA program is a deeply unique educational experience, and the MALA graduate students wish to share it with the greater graduate school community.
The Engaged Graduate Experience: The First Year of the MALA Program
This poster will illustrate the interdisciplinary, engaged learning and creative activities that have taken place during the first year of the new MALA (Madison Academic Library Associates) graduate assistantship program. Liana Bayne and Caroline Hamby are JMU Libraries’ first dedicated graduate assistants, and have spent the 2015-16 school year piloting the program. The two-year program’s curriculum includes library school-inspired learning modules alongside hands-on, project-based activities monitored and mentored by varying divisions of LET (Libraries & Educational Technologies) staff. Bayne and Hamby look forward to completing large-scale capstone project work in the second year of this program. Bayne and Hamby work most often at the intersection of the digital humanities and traditional library archival work, giving them a diverse skill set that looks to the future of library sciences. The MALA program is a deeply unique educational experience, and the MALA graduate students wish to share it with the greater graduate school community.
