Get to Know Your Library Staff, Part III

Sandra Brown Kelly, Reference I always wanted to be an English teacher, but instead I got married, became a college dropout, and got sidetracked as a newspaper reporter and editor for more than 30 years. I never lost the lust for school, however. While still working at The Roanoke Times, I got an associate’s degree [...]

Library Director Wins Faculty Award

Congratulations to our very own Lynn Hurt, Interim Learning Resources Director, for winning the J. Andrew Archer Outstanding Faculty Award for 2009! This honor is awarded annually at the Employee Recognition ceremony to acknowledge excellence in teaching and administration. These awards rotate among the academic divisions and counseling and the library. Recipients are selected by [...]

Get to Know Your Library Staff, Part II

Kalyca Schultz, Library Assistant Originally from Wisconsin, I moved to the Roanoke Valley to attend college——and never left! I’ve lived here for over ten years now and have come to love our Star City’s mountainous beauty, small town feel, and many cultural offerings. I graduated from Hollins University in 2001 with a BA in English [...]

Get to Know Your Librarians, Part II

Lynn Hurt, Technical Services Librarian  From the time I was a child, I have loved libraries and wanted to be a librarian. It was a long and winding road getting to this goal; however, I finally reached my destination, and the trip was definitely worth it. I started working at Virginia Western twenty years ago [...]

Members of Library Staff Learn About Herbs

Two members of the Brown Library staff——Laura Milliman, Reference Librarian, and Kalyca Schultz, Library Assistant——recently participated in the Horticulture department’s Gardening with Herbs class (HRT 198-N1). Taught by Julie Reusch of Village Herb Farm in Blue Ridge, the class included informative lectures on the uses for herbs and the basics of growing and caring for them in [...]

Meet Your Library Director

David Hillman I am a native of Roanoke and have been on the VWCC library staff since 1972. Before that I was getting a Master’s in Library Science from the University of Maryland and before that a Bachelor’s in English from William and Mary. My job title is Learning Resources Center Director; that means Head [...]