Herzellah appointed Student Success & Engagement Librarian

We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Lara Herzellah to the position of Student Success & Engagement Librarian effective February 4, 2019.

Herzellah joins the Libraries’ Learning Spaces & Services department where she will work with campus student support units and academic departments to leverage and promote Libraries resources and to develop and deliver a range of creative and informative student engagement experiences that contribute to student success. She will coordinate the Libraries’ participation in campus-wide student orientation activities, hosting special events, workshops and pop-ups such as the Make-A-Thon, Packapalooza, and Making Space. Herzellah will also help to expand the Libraries’ collaborative relationships with student-oriented programs and services such as the University Tutorial Center, Living and Learning Communities, TRIO, academic enrichment programs in the arts and undergraduate research, and academic success initiatives from Summer START to Exploratory Studies.

Herzellah currently serves as Research and Information Literacy Librarian at the State University of New York at Fredonia where she develops and implements a variety of creative and informative student engagement experiences. She recently organized the Reed Library Carnival as part of new student orientation, hosting new students at the library to participate in an assortment of carnival-themed activities promoting the library’s resources and services. She has created other special events at the library such as a Harry Potter escape room, which exemplifies her research interest in the use of gamification and the incorporation of emerging technologies in academic libraries. Herzellah also launched the library’s 3D printing service in Spring 2018 and created a poem dispenser for National Poetry Month inspired by the poetry dispenser created here at the NC State University Libraries.

Previously, Herzellah was a Library Assistant at the Kenmore Mercy Hospital in Buffalo where she provided reference and research assistance to clinicians and staff and determined future acquisitions to meet their needs. She has also been an Assistant Librarian for the R.L. Brown History of Medicine Collection at the University of Buffalo, where she provided reference and research assistance and created exhibits and events.

Herzellah is a member of the SUNY Librarians Association and serves on the Western New York Library Resources Council. She earned the Master of Science, Information and Library Science at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Bachelor of Arts in History at the State University of New York at Fredonia.