New JKM Library Leadership Announced
01-08-2024
With the start of a new year, a new team has been named to run the JKM Library which is now in its new home and ready to provide its extensive print, electronic, and additional resources.
For more than 50 years, the JKM Library, a collaborative venture of McCormick and LSTC, has provided faithful service to our communities and managed one of the nation’s premier collections of Reformed tradition materials.
McCormick and LSTC now have beautiful new homes, access to the JKM core collection, its digital resources, and a dedicated JKM staff as well as perpetual access to the University of Chicago Library System, staff, and world-class resources. (You can read more about the full range of staff and services on the LSTC website at https://lstc.edu/students/library/).
On January 1, Laura Frost was appointed Interim Director of the JKM Library. Laura recently completed her Master of Divinity at LSTC and also holds master’s degrees in Library and Information Sciences from Dominican University and in Education from Olivet Nazarene University. She earned her BA from Valparaiso University where she graduated with a double major in secondary education and French. She was also an associate of Christ College, the Honors College, while at Valparaiso.
Barry Hopkins, who has been the long-time Research Librarian at JKM will continue in that role in a new remote, part-time capacity.
Matt Frost, a Ph.D. candidate at LSTC who has been a student worker at JKM and was a faithful member of the team that provided invaluable assistance during the move to its new home, becomes the JKM Services Coordinator.
As stewards of JKM’s mission, we are grateful to all those who have worked so diligently to help write this new chapter in JKM’s history. We give thanks for the dedicated service of Emilie Pulver, who is retiring at the end of the month, and Barry Hopkins who helped navigate many tasks necessary to begin this new chapter in JKM’s history.
In addition to our dedicated staff, we want to offer a special word of gratitude to former LSTC Dean Esther Menn, McCormick Interim Dean Annette Huizenga (and her predecessor, former Dean Steed Davidson,) as well as Professors Mark Swanson and Ken Sawyer who have participated in countless meetings, sometimes with little notice, to help guide us through this transformational opportunity. And we would be remiss not to acknowledge the above-and-beyond service of Dr. Sawyer and his daughter, Lizz Shapiro. Ken and Lizz, along with our JKM staff, the McCormick facilities staff, and our good friends at Hallett Movers, literally moved mountains to make all this happen.
