Betsy Miguez
Betsy Miguez
General Reference Librarian, Associate Professor |
Edith Garland Dupré Library |
University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
400 E. St. Mary Boulevard, Lafayette, LA 70503 |
337-482-1173 ~ bbmiguez@louisiana.edu |
Betsy Miguez earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Limestone College in Gaffney, South Carolina, and a Master of Library Service degree from the Graduate School of Library Service at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is a member of the American Library Association (ALA), and she has been a member of the Louisiana Library Association (LLA) since 1982. She organized a panel discussion for the 1999 LLA Conference. Miguez served as secretary of LLA, 2005-06; chair of the Academic Section, 2008-2009; and chair of the 2009 LLA Meritorious Service Award Committee. Miguez also served on the 2009 ALA Newbery Award Committee. Miguez has worked in public, school, and academic libraries, and she has taught children’s literature courses at three colleges including the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has served on statewide planning committees for Year of the Young Reader, Toddler/Preschool Story Time Workshop, Louisiana Summer Reading Program, and Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award. She presented the regional workshops on summer programming for the State Library of Louisiana, 1988-1990. She has presented programs on children's poetry and trends in Newbery Award books at state and regional conferences. Miguez has held the position of General Reference Librarian at Dupré Library since 2001. |
|
Recent Publications |
||
|
Books:
|
||
|
Goetting, Denise, Susan Marshall Richard, Sherry Curry and Betsy Bryan
|
||
Miguez. Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A Subject Index. Worthington,
|
||
OH: Linworth, 2003.
|
||
|
Reference book entries:
|
||
|
Miguez, Betsy Bryan. “Anne Rice,” Twenty-First-Century American Novelists.
|
||
Ed. Lisa Abney and Suzanne Disheroon-Green. Dictionary of Literary
|
||
Biography. 292. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
|
||
|
Miguez, Betsy Bryan. “Grandma Dowdel (Richard Peck, A Long Way from Chicago,
|
||
1998).” Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman. Student's
|
||
Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters. New York,
Manly, 2008.
|
||
|
Miguez, Betsy Bryan “Dicey (Cynthia Voigt, Dicey’s Song, 1982). Ed. Matthew J.
|
||
Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman. Student’s Encyclopedia of American
|
||
Literary Characters. New York, Manly, 2008.
|
||
|
Articles:
|
||
|
Miguez, Betsy. “Centers Solve After-the-Test Dilemma.” Innovation Abstracts.
|
||
24.21 (2002): 1-2.
|
||
|
Miguez, Betsy. “What’s to Tell: Louisiana Folklore Books for Children.”
|
||
Louisiana Libraries. 66.2 (2003): 8-12.
|
||
|
Miguez, Betsy Bryan. “Louisiana: The Pelican State” Book Links 13.6 (2004):
|
||
5-10.
|
||
| Miguez, Betsy Bryan. "Bring Back the Poetry." Teacher Librarian 32.4 (2005): | ||
| 26-31. | ||
| Miguez, Betsy Bryan and Denise Goetting. "A Quest to Explain the Extreme | ||
| Realism in Newbery Books." Journal of Children's Literature 32.1 (2006): | ||
| 51-55. | ||
| Goetting, Denise, Betsy Bryan Miguez, Sheryl Moore Curry, and Susan Marshall | ||
| Richard. "First-Time Publishing: Negotiating the Perils and Pitfalls." | ||
|
Technical Services Quarterly 25.2 (2007): 1-18. |
||
| Miguez, Betsy. “Millionth Volume Celebration Commemorates Edith Garland | ||
| Dupré.” Louisiana Libraries 70.2 (2007): 3-7. | ||
| Miguez, Betsy. “A Multitude of Characters, a Multi-Faceted Setting: Louisiana | ||
| Fiction for the Middle Schools.” READ: Journal of the Louisiana Reading | ||
| Association 28.1 (2008): 5-11. | ||
| Book reviews: | ||
Miguez, Betsy. Review of Jazz Cats, by David Davis. Louisiana Libraries. 64.3
|
||
(2002): 15.
|
||
Miguez, Betsy. Review of Sitting Up with the Dead: A Storied Journey through the |
||
American South, by Pamela Petro. Louisiana Libraries. 65.2 (2002): 22.
|
||
| Miguez, Betsy. Review of Louisiana 24/7: 24 Hours, 7 Days, Extraordinary Images | ||
| of One Week in Louisiana, by Rick Smolan and David Cohen. Louisiana Libraries | ||
67.3 (2005): 27-28. |
||
Grants
|
||
| Miguez, Betsy and Steven Ring, Principal Investigators. “Digital Technology | ||
| Application for Library Collections in Microform Formats.” Funded by: | ||
| Student Technology Enhancement Program. Awarded: September 13, 2002. | ||
| Grant value: $15,159. | ||
Honors
|
||
| Rutgers University – Beta Phi Mu Honor Society | ||
| Limestone College – Kalosophia Honor Society; M. W. Thomas Award of | ||
| General Excellence | ||
Document last revised:
Thursday, July 2, 2009 12:47 PM
Copyright 2004-2009 by Betsy Miguez