Biography

Missy has been a Reference/Instruction librarian with the University of Central Florida libraries since 2010.  She currently is serving as the librarian for the Patent and Trademark Resource Center at UCF, as well as providing research assistance (in-person and via AAL), library instruction, outreach services, and collection development for the anthropology and sociology departments.  Missy came to UCF from the University of Mississippi, where she held various duties in reference and instruction, government documents, and the AICPA library service.

Missy’s research interests include library accessibility issues, GIS, and subject librarian outreach to academic departments.  She holds B.A.’s in psychology and mathematics from the University of Mississippi, the Masters of Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama, and is currently enrolled in the graduate certificate program for Geographic Information Systems at UCF.