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Jarrett Library is pleased to announce the November/December Student Workers of the Month. They are Danielle Closs, Sara Gray, and Porsha Harrison. Danielle Closs Danielle Closs was born in Dover, Delaware and lived in Felton, Delaware for about 23 years. She graduated from Delaware Technical and Community College in 2004, with an associates degree in Human Services and then started going to Washington Bible College in Lanham Maryland August of 2006. She attended WBC for two years where she met her wonderful husband and they were married August 2008 and immediately moved to Marshall, Texas. They are both attending East Texas Baptist University. Danielle is in the psychology program, hoping to work with youth in some way. Sara Gray Sara Gray is from Hallsville, Texas where she is involved with the First Baptist Church Hallsville. Sara's hobbies are reading and ultimate frisbee. Porsha Harrison Porsha Harrison is from Lufkin and her parents are Michael Harrison and Delisia Harrison-S...

Each year the library selects twelve students for the honor of Student Workers of the Month. The students are nominated by the circulation staff and voted on by the entire library staff. For September/October 2008 the awards go to: Jingyi Chen (Annie) Annie is from China and her major is elementary education. According to Annie, "It's wonderful to work in the library. I enjoy this semester very much!" Jeremy Closs Jeremy Closs is a 22 year old Religion major/ Theatre minor at ETBU. He is a transfer student coming in from Washington Bible College, in Lanham, Maryland. His wife Danielle and he were married recently, on 8/8/08, and are settling in to their new Texas home. So far, the people are nice and the food is good. When he's not working at Jarrett Library or in class, Jeremy enjoys reading whatever catches his fancy, writing whatever pops into his head, or killing his brain cells with television (Heroes, LOST and The Colbert Report are current favorites). He also l...

Each semester Jarrett Library employs many student workers and Spring 2008 is no different. Twenty students currently work in the library in the Access Services Department (checking in and out materials, shelving, etc.), in the Reference Services Department (directing students to correct materials, answering reference questions, etc.), the Technical Services Department (adding spine labels to books, checking in periodicals, etc.) or Library Administration (assisting the Director in the archives, collection development, and other projects). Of course, all student workers are expected to be serious, quiet and always professional. Okay, maybe not but the student assistants do work hard and they are invaluable in keeping the library going. "Could we run the library without our student workers? Absolutely not," stated Cynthia Peterson, Director of Library Services. "Student workers do many things that are essential to the smooth running of the library and as a result they fre...