Betsy Miguez

Assistant Dean of Public Services, Associate Professor

Edith Garland Dupré Library

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

400 E. St. Mary Boulevard, Lafayette, LA 70503

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, and she has been a member of the Louisiana Library Association since 1982. She served on the 2009 John Newbery Award Committee. She has held the offices of Louisiana Library Association Secretary and Academic Section Chair.

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. Miguez is Assistant Dean of Public Services/Associate Professor at Dupré Library.

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.

http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CH1200011660&v=2.1&u=lln_ausl&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w

Miguez, Betsy Bryan. “Dicey (Cynthia Voigt, Dicey's Song, 1982).” Student's

Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli

and Judith S. Baughman. New York, Manly, 2008.

Miguez, Betsy Bryan. “Grandma Dowdel (Richard Peck, A Long Way from

Chicago, 1998).” Student's Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters.

Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman. 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 Book 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.

Miguez, Betsy and Heather Plaisance. “Edith Garland Dupré: Founder of the

Library at UL Lafayette.” Louisiana Libraries 72.4 (2010): 40-45.

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.

Wayman, Matthew J. et al. “It's the Little Things: The 2006 List of Outstanding

Reference Sources.” American Libraries May 2006: 40-43.

Schwartz, Jeff, et al. “Print & Online: A Winning Formula.” American Libraries

May 2007: 54-57.

Grants

“Digital Technology Application for Library Collections in Microform Formats.” Written

with Steven Ring. Funded by Student Technology Enhancement Program.

$15,159. Awarded September 2002.

“Lending Laptop Service at Edith Garland Dupré Library.” Written with Susan Richard

and others. Funded by Student Technology Enhancement Program. $32,747.

Awarded September 2009.

“Digital Signage in Edith Garland Dupré Library.” Written with Sherry Curry. Funded by

Student Technology Enhancement Program. $2,278. Awarded June 2011.

“Security Cameras in Edith Garland Dupré Library.” Written with Susan Richard and

others. $66,858. Awarded June 2011.

Honors

Rutgers University – Beta Phi Mu Honor Society

Limestone College – Kalosophia Honor Society; M. W. Thomas Award of

General Excellence

Document last revised: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:27 AM