Friends of the UNCG Libraries

Pam Sprinkle is a person who makes things happen. During her term on the Friends of the UNCG Libraries Board of Directors, financial cutbacks threatened the continuation of the Children’s Book Author and Storyteller Series that brings prominent author/storytellers to the UNCG campus each fall.  The Series has three components: 1) to perform at UNCG for nearly 1000 fourth graders in area schools; 2) to conduct a master storyteller Q&A session with UNCG students studying to become elementary school teachers; and 3) to appear at both UNCG and the area Bookmarks Festival under UNCG sponsorship.  Without even being asked for her support, Pam determined that she wanted to see the series continue, and worked out a plan with husband David to do so, committing to fund it for five years.  The Sprinkles’ generosity not only saved the series, it allowed it to thrive, and with their ongoing commitment top author/storytellers could be booked a year or more in advance, som...

Lindsay Sabatino, director of the Digital ACT Studio in Jackson Library’s Digital Media Commons, has successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled "Interactions on the Online Writing Center: Students’ Perspectives," and passed with distinction. She earned her Ph.D. in English: Composition & TESOL from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Sabatino, who came to UNCG in August, had previously been Director of the Online Writing Center and Assistant Director of the Writing Center at IUP.  She says she has especially enjoyed connecting to the many other departments at UNCG that use the Digital ACT Studio, and finds the work here a natural extension of her work helping students write.  Here, she also helps them learn how to assess their audience, purpose and context in preparing their digital projects, whether they are scripted or not.  She and the five undergraduate and two graduate student colleagues in the grant-funded Digital ACT Studio are growing their ser...