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Biographical Sketches of Candidates for Academic Library Division Office 2012

 

VICE-CHAIR / CHAIR-ELECT
 

Ashley Dupuy
Librarian and Coordinator of Undergraduate Library Instruction, Kennesaw State University

Ashley Dupuy is a Librarian and Coordinator of Undergraduate Library Instruction at the Horace W. Sturgis Library at Kennesaw State University where she teaches library instruction classes and is subject liaison for the Coles College of Business. While completing her MLIS at the University of Alabama, she worked for two years in the Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library System. Prior life in the library world, Ashley worked for 15 years in the marketing and advertising industry. She also has a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ashley has been actively involved in GLA for several years. In 2009 she chaired
the Atlanta Emerging Librarians planning committee, became the vice chair of the New Members Round Table in 2010 and is the current chair of NMRT for 2011. Ashley has one husband, is in two book clubs, has three dogs and likes to make lists of things in numerical order.

   

Kara Mullen
Electronic Services Librarian, Clayton State University

Kara Mullen is the Electronic Services Librarian at Clayton State University. She earned her MLIS from Valdosta State University and holds a B.A. in English from Georgia State University. Kara has been a member of the Academic Division for 11 years. Since 2003, she has actively served GLA as a member of Administrative Services processing association membership renewals. Her previous service includes membership on the Handbook and Membership committees. In 2007, she was honored as one of GLA’s Paraprofessionals of the Year.

 
 
SECRETARY
 

Brenna Helmstutler
Education Librarian, Georgia State University

Brenna Helmstutler has served as Education Librarian for Georgia State University Library since 2004.   In addition to the MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Wingate University and a Master’s in Counseling from Radford University.   Prior to entering academic librarianship, she was a university academic advisor for eight years.

Brenna has been a GLA member since 2010 with involvement in the Public Relations Committee, References Services Interest Group, and Academic Library Division, and has presented at COMO twice, in 2006 and 2010.  Other Georgia affiliations include the Georgia Conference on Information Literacy and the Atlanta Area BIG.

Brenna contributed a chapter on Liaison Services for the book, New Librarian, New Job: Practical Advice for Managing the Transition, published in 2006.   She is currently working on another book chapter on collection development for the counseling curriculum for the book Library Collection Development for Professional Programs: Trends and Best Practices, to be published in 2012, and is also researching promotion and tenure outreach to teaching faculty toward publication.

   

Casey Long
User Education Librarian, Agnes Scott College

Casey Long graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with her MLIS in December 2000. Since then she has worked Agnes Scott College as the User Education Librarian, Georgia State University as a Business Liaison Librarian, and Booz Allen Hamilton as a Research Analyst. She recently ended a three year term as President (President-Elect and Past President) of the SLA Georgia Chapter and is looking forward to becoming more active in the Georgia Library Association.



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