Congratulations
to the May WSU PSAC
P'Sack' Awardee

Lonna Rivera

Electronic Resource Coordinator
Stewart Library

P'Sack' Awardee of the Month

BIOGRAPHY

Lonna is responsible for managing electronic resources at the Library. She activates and keeps track of journals, reference books and databases that are available online. She is also in charge of the Government Document Collection at the library and works at the Reference Desk.

Lonna likes to read, travel, play fantasy football, and enjoy her grandchildren.  She likes working with and helping students. Lonna said, "I work with wonderful people in a great atmosphere. I am very lucky to work in a job that I love. There is something new to learn every day."

Education: BS Political Science & History.

Memberships: Utah Library Association

Family: Married with three children and five grandchildren.

NOMINATION SELECTION

Lonna Rivera represents all that is good about WSU’s professional staff. She is dedicated, hard-working, flexible, and a great team player. She has worked at Stewart Library for 16 years in several positions. For the past eight years she has worked in the Reference Department. During that time, both her working schedule and her job duties have changed but she has accepted these changes graciously. When her hours changed to require working until 8 pm every Saturday, did she complain? No way!

Lonna’s job duties recently changed as well. As the library obtained more and more electronic resources, managing them became more problematic. Lonna accepted the responsibility of managing our electronic resources, even though the job duties were very much different from what she started out doing eight years ago. Again, she has accepted the challenges of learning new tasks graciously and enthusiastically.

She is a wonderful example of helpfulness. She strives to serve everyone at the reference desk to her very best. Whether helping faculty, students, or community users, she is a good example of how WSU professional staff represent the university in a professional, courteous manner.

Lonna has also served on several campus committees, including the Staff Development Committee and the Faculty/Staff Association. And she’s an active participant in various committees within the library.

She is well liked and respected among her peers in the library and is very deserving of being honored as an outstanding professional staff member of the WSU community.

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