Mississippi Library Association

Henderson (People in the News)

Mantra Henderson, Assistant Director/Head of Public Services, James H. White Library, Mississippi Valley State University, attended the Peabody Professional Institute for Academic Library Leadership from July 6-10, 2008 at Vanderbilt University. The institute was conducted through lectures, panel presentations and group work, with sessions about academic library management and discussions on related literature. Participation in Peabody Professional Institutes is competitive and is determined through a review process.

Henderson was also invited to make two professional presentations, the first at Johnson C. Smith University’s Post-Information Literacy Leadership Institute October 10-12, 2008, in Charlotte, NC. The institute assists librarians at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) with the development/revision of their Information Literacy Instructional Programs. Participants had an opportunity to learn about various programs, and spent time designing an program for their own students. She originally attended the institute in November 2007 and was invited back to present her redesigned Information Literacy Program, but was unable to do the presentation due to illness. Her proposal was done instead by Dr. Teresa Neely, one of the presenters of the post institute. Also in attendance was Jama Lumumba, Librarian, Division of Library & Information Resources, H. T. Sampson Library, Jackson State University.

Her second presentation will be at the HBCU Library Alliance 3rd Annual Membership Meeting October 26-28, 2008, in Charlotte, NC. The HBCU Library Alliance is a consortium that supports the collaboration of information professionals dedicated to providing an array of resources designed to strengthen Historically Black Colleges and Universities and their constituents. They received funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to host an exchange program for five associate-level librarians from the HBCU Leadership Program to spend two weeks at an Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) library during the summer of 2008. The goals of the exchange were to provide the HBCU librarians with an opportunity to address a specific issue of strategic importance to their library with the assistance and expertise of ASERL library leaders, and to foster additional collaboration between ASERL and HBCU libraries. As a participant in the exchange program Henderson will be presenting her proposal and accomplishments at the membership meeting. Her exchange ASERL Library was North Carolina State University’s D. H. Hill Library.

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Posted on: October 21st, 2008