STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS Ph.D. student and Ifll Operations Specialist Jennifer Sunoo ’21MS received the ASIS&T New Leaders Award 2021. As one of the fve awardees, Sunoo will be mentored by a longtime ASIS&T member and attend the annual meeting in October 2021. Michelle Lafamme ’22MS, School Library Teacher concentration student, is a 2021 recipient of the Massachusetts School Library Association Audrey Friend Scholarship. Master’s student Rae Enzie ’22MS was a Junior Fellow with the Library of Congress in Summer 2021, where they worked on the National Book Festival. Kylie Baker ’21MS released her debut novel, Keeper of the Night, published by Inkyard Press/ HarperCollins, October 2021. The novel has received a starred review from Kirkus.
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Kelsey Ford ’22MS advises a teenhosted literary podcast called Bridges & Books in which teens interview award-winning and NYT Bestselling authors of young adult literature. Ford and the teen podcasters were recently featured on the “We Need Diverse Books” blog and were selected to present at three conferences in the fall of 2021: the YALSA Symposium, the Pennsylvania Library Association Conference, and the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English & Language Arts Conference. Ford was also named the 2021-2022 American Library Association liaison for the Young Adult Library Services Association. SLIS student Melissa Grasso ’24MS was awarded the 2021 Tom and Roberta Drewes Scholarship by the American Library Association. The $3,000 scholarship is awarded to a library support staf worker who is pursuing a master’s degree in library and information science. Grasso currently works as a library assistant in the Boston College Law Library.
SLIS Year in Review 2021
