April 8th is National Library Worker's Day, a day to celebrate all library workers and the amazing service they provide to our users. The Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (HSLIC) is fortunate on this day to celebrate not only our existing employees, but two new people who have recently joined the library.

 

We are excited to welcome Emily Roberts as our new Nursing and Allied Health Librarian! Emily will be liaising with the College of Nursing and our many allied health programs to provide curricular and research support to faculty, staff and students. She is a member of the Research, Education and Clinical Information Services Division at HSLIC and has her office on our newly remodeled second floor. Prior to joining us, Emily was the Library Services Coordinator at UNM HSC’s Center for Development and Disability Library. She has worked as an instructional consultant with faculty at CNM and at various public libraries in Colorado. In 2024, Emily received the Community Achievement Award from the New Mexico Library Association for outstanding library service and achievement at the local level.  Please join us in welcoming Emily to HSLIC.  Emily received her Masters of Library and Information Science from Valdosta State University and her Bachelor of Arts from Knox College in Religion and Politics. 

 

 

Christian Peshlakai,, HSLIC's new Emerging Technologies Specialist, started working at the University of New Mexico Hospital, specifically the Children’s Psychiatric Hospital for five years and a few of those during the Covid pandemic. As a Behavioral Health technician, his goal was to maintain safety for patients and assist health care professionals with their goals. A large part of the daily schedule was based on coping skills and employing de-escalation skills. 

In 2022, he started working at Zimmerman Library as a Library Information Specialist II. A large part of working as a LIS 2 was working with patrons either through chat, reference desk, and roaming. An interest of his at main campus was seeking technologies such as 3D printing and working with 3D models.

It’s his hope that several technologies can be made widely accessible through main and north campus.

His hobbies include audiobooks, playing video games, DND, board games and occasionally dabbling in new technologies like 360 cameras or working in Adobe Photoshop. His current success rate at best man speeches is currently 100%.