WELCOME, ELLEN GRIFFIN SHADE

Ellen Griffin Shade has joined the University Library night/weekend rotation as a part-time Reference Librarian. Ellen is currently head of the circulation department at the Birmingham Public Library's Avondale Regional Branch Library. Ellen has also staffed the reference desk at the Homewood Public Library. She has worked at UAB’s Lister Hill Library as Historical Collections Cataloger, where she also served on the UAB Faculty Senate and as an instructor for University 101, a university-wide course in interdisciplinary critical thinking. Ellen studied for special collections librarianship at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. She earned the MLIS degree from the University of Alabama, and her B.A. and M.A. in history from UAB, focusing on British and Southern American history.