2018 VLA Emerging Leader: Garrison LibbyGarrison Libby is currently a Reference Librarian at Tidewater Community College’s Virginia Beach campus where he serves as liaison to the Health Professions departments. Prior to that he worked at Coastal Carolina Community College in Jacksonville, NC and received his MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Garrison’s library interests include outreach, open access and OER, and the use of technology in libraries. When not being a librarian, he is an active runner, champion Netflix-watcher, avid mantis shrimp enthusiast, and generally delightful individual. The American Library Association (ALA) Emerging Leaders (EL) program is a leadership development program which enables newer library workers from across the country to participate in problem-solving work groups, network with peers, gain an inside look into ALA structure, and have an opportunity to serve the profession in a leadership capacity. It puts participants on the fast track to ALA committee volunteerism as well as other professional library-related organizations. |