Faculty & Staff
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Washoe County School District
Library Services Staff
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Tom Sawyer, Ed.D.
Director, LRC
 Tom Sawyer has been the director of the Learning & Resource Center since 1988. Tom was a staff development trainer for three years, worked in various programs and taught speech communications at Hug High School for 10 years. Dr. Sawyer is the faculty advisor for the University of Nevada Educator’s Association, a very active student organization that puts on nearly a dozen events each year, including Read Across America, statewide and national conferences, Welcome Back Barbecue, and Bowling with Professors. Tom is responsible for recruitment for the College traveling to high schools in Las Vegas and across the state. He also chairs the Scholarship Committee for the university and is the President of the Friends of the College of Education which sponsors the Tee It Up for Teaching Golf Tournament that raises money for scholarships and technology for the College of Education. |
Ellen Fockler, M.A. (A.B.D.) Library Media Technology Coord., WCSD
 Ellen Fockler has been at the LRC for nearly seven years with an accumulated 43 years with the school district. She has a master’s degree in English and all but dissertation in her doctorate degree in Literacy Studies. Ellen coordinates the 90 school libraries in the district, providing hardware and software assistance and training, professional development opportunities during monthly or quarterly meetings, and oversees the Nevada Reading Week Conference which is attended by 225 teachers and librarians from Washoe County and throughout northern Nevada and parts of California. The cooperative effort between WCSD and the College of Education combines resources to provide both practicing teachers and preservice teachers access to a wide range of teaching materials, children’s books and technology. It’s also an excellent place to find professional journals that teachers can not afford to buy on their own. Being able to check out kits and expensive models like skeletons and the organs in the human body are an invaluable resource to educators. |
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Ginger Ashbaugh Cape, B.A. Design Lab & Graphics Manager
 Ginger Cape has been at the Learning & Resource Center since 1992. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno with a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1982 and then worked as a publications writer in the marketing department of the College of Extended Studies for four years before coming to the Learning & Resource Center. As the graphic designer for the College of Education, she designs most of the brochures, newsletters and other printed materials for the College. She also teaches students and faculty from the College and from across campus how to use the technology available in the Design Lab, along with duties as the manager of the Graphics Room. Ginger’s job is constantly evolving as she continues to develop expertise in new technologies that would benefit the College’s emerging and practicing teachers.
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Shirie Wallace Library Services Assistant, WCSD
 Shirie Wallace has been with the Washoe County School District’s cooperative effort with the Learning and Resource Center for five years. Her job is to help coordinate the 90 WCSD libraries and nearly 140 librarians and assistants. She worked at various positions throughout the school district for three years before coming to the LRC. Shirie works each year with the school district’s Nevada Reading Week Committee, and she is also on the Board of Directors for the Friends of Washoe County Library (FWCL). Shirie volunteers each year for the Tisket Tasket committee and she serves as the chair of Art in the Garden, a popular annual event she hosts that benefits the FWCL. |
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Margo Grubic, B.A.
Administrative Assistant
 Margo is the latest addition to the LRC staff transferring to the Learning & Resource Center last year after four years at the Department of Building and Grounds on campus. She has a bachelor’s degree in theater with a minor in journalism from the university. Margo handles the accounting for the Graphics Recharge Center and the Regional Conference Center, along with assisting with all areas of the Library and Graphics Room. Margo continues to stay involved with community theater in her spare time.
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Cindy Wood
Library Associate II, WCSD
 Cindy Wood has worked for WCSD for 17 years, transferring to the LRC in 2004 from Caughlin Ranch Elementary School library. Cindy has an A.A. degree and a Librarian Certification. She’s involved in Nevada Reading Week as part of the committee that designs and sells the T-shirts each year. Cindy feels the LRC captures the best of both worlds for her as a librarian. She is able to continue to instill a love of reading in elementary students as she works with the students in the Early Learning Center, a first- through third-grade classroom that is located in the College of Education. And she also brings her background and expertise as she works closely with college students and faculty in the College of Education. She loves to see students achieve their education goals and then continue to work with them as peers as they teach throughout the district. |
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Maureen Morton
Audiovisual Media Supervisor
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 Maureen Morton has been at the Learning & Resource Center for eight years after working at the Wooster Library for 10 years. Maureen is responsible for all the technology in the Learning & Resource Center Media Library, including the servers and database of the 37,000 holdings and 4,000 patrons. She trains faculty and students on the use of camcorders, laptops, LCD projectors, the Smart Cart, and the smart classroom technology throughout the College of Education building. She also supervises the many student employees who work throughout the day and for the Learning & Resource Center’s extended hours. Maureen serves on the SNCAT Public Television Advisory Board. |