Reference Librarians & Staff - Thomas Cooper Library

Virginia W. Weathers -- Head of the Reference Department
Coordinates Reference Department services, policies and organization. M.L.I.S. - University of Tennessee; B.S. in Education - Winthrop College. Phone: 777-2807
Marilee Birchfield -- Reference Librarian
Trains and manages the Reference Department graduate assistants. Coordinates library outreach and promotion through campus events. Initiates reference staff in-service training sessions. Liaison to the College of Education and the Women's Studies Program. M.L.S. - University of Washington; B.A. in Geography - Western Washington University. Phone: 777-4267
Karen Brown -- Reference Librarian
Coordinates the Reference Department's Library Instruction program. Teaches LIBRary 100 one-credit course. Liaison to the Department of Theatre and Dance and to Distance Education. M.L.I.S. - University of South Carolina; B.A. in English - Old Dominion University. Phone: 777-4267
Gerri Corson -- Reference Librarian
WebFeat federated search and Reference Department web pages manager. Liaison to the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of Sociology. M.L.I.S. - University of South Carolina; B.S. in Business - Barry University. Phone: 777-2956
Joshua Garris -- Reference Librarian
Manages the Reference Department's virtual reference services. Provides support for the maintenance of Reference Department computers. Assists with management of electronic library resources and statistics. Liaison to the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Department of Biological Sciences and the Marine Science Program. M.L.I.S. - University of South Carolina; B.S. in Biology - University of South Carolina. Phone: 777-7168
Rebecca Gettys -- Reference Librarian
Manages and maintains the library's database of electronic resources and related web pages. Liaison to the Department of Psychology and the Department of Anthropology. M.L.I.S. - University of Hawaii, Manoa; B.A. in Psychology - University of South Carolina. Phone: 777-2956
Tom Marcil -- Reference Librarian
Maintains the collection of public school K-12 textbooks housed in the library for the USC College of Education. Assists with reference desk duties, library tours, and projects. M.L.S. - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.A. in History - University of Chicago; B.A. in History - Grinnell College. Phone: 777-7149
Francess Murray -- Coordinator for the Multimedia Classrooms
Schedules and maintains the Multimedia Classrooms. Develops and teaches library instruction sessions for University 101. Assists with reference desk duties. M.L.I.S. - University of South Carolina; B.A. in English - Morris College. Phone: 777-6244
Bob Skinder -- Science Reference Librarian
Manages Science Reference web pages. Liaison to the College of Nursing and the Departments of Geological Sciences and Physics and Astronomy. M.L.S. - University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI; B.A. in English - Southeastern Massachusetts University. Phone: 777-8702
Roberta Taylor -- Reference Department Office Manager
Assists with administrative duties, schedules reference desk and oversees shelving. Phone: 777-4867
Sharon Verba -- Reference Librarian
Manages reference collection development. Coordinates freshman English library instruction. Teaches LIBRary 100 one-credit course. Liaison to the Department of English and the Department of Language, Literatures, and Cultures. M.L.S. - Indiana University, Bloomington; M.A. in Comparative Literature and M.A. in English - Indiana University, Bloomington; B.A. in English - Wheeling Jesuit College. Phone: 777-8173
Andrea Wright -- Science Reference Librarian
Science Librarian. Liaison to Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Statistics and the College of Engineering & Computing. M.L.I.S. - University of South Carolina; B.S. in Chemistry - Furman University. Phone: 777-1968
Iris Abney -- Part-time Reference Librarian
Helps with night and weekend reference desk duty. M.L.I.S. - University of South Carolina; B.S. in Business Administration Marketing - University of South Carolina.
Mary Bull -- Part-time Reference Librarian
Helps with morning reference desk duty. M.L.S. - Indiana University, Bloomington; B.A. in English and Religious Studies - Indiana University, Bloomington.
Laura Ladwig -- Part-time Reference Librarian
Helps with main reference desk duty. M.L.I.S. - University of South Carolina; M.S. in Counseling - Bob Jones University; B.A. in Counseling - Bob Jones University. Phone: 777-4866
Graduate Students
Ernest Greene, SLIS
Neil Hunt, SLIS
Virginia Pierce, SLIS