Fond Farewell

Students, faculty, and staff will all miss Rebecca Miller, Reference Librarian, who has left Lake Forest College for other opportunities. Rebecca has accepted a position as Instruction and Web Librarian at Trinity International University in Deerfield. There she will be able to pursue a Masters degree in Christian Thought. Eventually she hopes to go into missions or ministry work.

Rebecca has been at Lake Forest College since October of 2001. She has been library liaison to the departments of History, Political Science, English, Foreign Languages, Economics, and Communications. She has instructed many classes in research strategies and in the evaluation of reference source materials.

During the past five years she has given presentations on the teaching of information competency at three professional association meetings. Rebecca has also served on the College's First-Year Studies Committee and has given presentations at the Interact session on Academic Honesty. Together with Reference Librarian Nancy Bohm, Rebecca co-authored a chapter, "Start at the Beginning: Your Job Responsibilities and How to Accomplish Them," in the book, The Academic Librarian, published in 2005. Looking at all Rebecca has done for the College, it is obvious that she was uniquely qualified to write this chapter.

During the summer of 2005, Rebecca redesigned the Library's website to conform to the College's new website design, while still maintaining the depth of functionality required of a portal to thousands of sources of scholarly information. Having worked with both the backends and interfaces of the hundred-plus databases to which the Library subscribes, Rebecca was able to streamline the Library's website at the same time that its look was altered.

Rebecca's capabilities and cheerfulness will be greatly missed by her colleagues and many students.