OHS librarian awarded scholarship for continued dedication and service to library education - The Oxford Eagle - Oxford Eagle

Published 8:00 americium Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Amanda Osborne, Oxford High School librarian, has been selected arsenic the 2022 recipient of the University of Southern Mississippi Beta Phi Mu-Beta Psi Marsha Case Memorial Scholarship, awarded annually based connected the accomplishment of a room schoolhouse module subordinate for distinguished work and dedication to room education.

The Beta Phi Mu International Library & Information Studies Honor Society was founded successful 1948 by a radical of starring librarians and room educators to admit and promote Scholastic accomplishment among Library and Information Studies (LIS) students. The University of Southern Mississippi Beta Psi section was aboriginal petitioned and officially established successful the 1980’s by the Dean of the School of Library.

Beta Psi section president, Emilee Aplin, congratulated Amanda connected behalf of the section and committee members.
“The members of the Scholarship Committee are pleased to grant you this year’s Marsha Case Memorial Scholarship and connection our congratulations! Beta Phi Mu halfway principles of world achievement, leadership, character, and your committedness to the profession, are demonstrated by your galore grants, projects, and improvements to your library, arsenic good arsenic your publications and information successful nonrecreational organizations.”

Ms. Osborne has developed an extended grounds of assistance and a lasting content connected her works arsenic a scholar, educator, and colleague. She took a imaginativeness for enhancements of the room and began making it a reality. In 2019, she was published nationally for her enactment with the 3D printer – which she purchased with a $6,000 assistance from the Oxford School District Foundation (OSDF) and has since been utilized by students for schoolhouse projects of each kind.

She aboriginal received an further $5000 assistance to acquisition virtual world stand-alone headsets which she has utilized for galore amusive learning experiences with students, specified arsenic taking a biology people connected a virtual travel done the cell.

“Investing successful exertion for the schoolhouse room ensures that each students, careless of their accomplishment connected standardized tests, volition person entree to innovative tools to larn integer skills indispensable to thrive successful 21st-century assemblage and vocation environments,” Osborne explained.

The full-time ma and pedagogue of 22 years is presently a postgraduate pupil astatine the University of Southern Mississippi and completing her 2nd Masters grade successful Library and Information Science, which she volition decorativeness successful 2023. In addition, she holds an Ed.S. successful Secondary English Education from the University of Mississippi, a Masters Degree from Belhaven University, a B.A. successful Literature from UNC Asheville, an A.A. grade from Hinds Community College, and is besides a National Board Certified teacher successful Early-Adolescent English Language Arts.

School librarians link different educators to existent trends and resources for teaching and learning and are indispensable partners for each teachers, providing people and integer materials that conscionable divers needs and offering opportunities to deepen pupil learning.

Amanda Osborne’s hardwork and committedness to scholastic- achievement, for each students, done hands connected learning has helped laic the instauration for the OHS room and its agleam aboriginal successful creating cognition and engaging with students.