First-year Personal Librarians: Swartz Hall (Floors 1 & 2)

What can your First-year Personal Librarian do for you?

• Keep you informed with periodic e-mail messages highlighting resources and programs
• Assist you with your research assignments by helping you identify the best sources and formulate search strategies
• Answer your questions about library services and resources
• Connect you with librarians across all subject areas
• Support you even when you’re not on campus—for example if you’re on break
• Help you when you don’t know where to start, or can’t think of what to do next!

Your First-year Personal Librarian is Jill Hallam-Miller.

Jill is the librarian for the College of Management, and for the Education Department. She enjoys meeting with students in the classroom and in consultations to help them with research and information problems. She is a first-generation college student who proudly earned her first degree at a community college.

Jill is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer, a Fear Free Certified Trainer, and she owns a small training business called Your Best Behavior, LLC. She and her husband enjoy hiking with their Australian Shepherds, Taylor and Mirabel. Jill spends a lot of time training (and being trained by) her dogs and participating in a variety of dog events with them. At right are Jill with her Aussies Odin (top, 2012-2025), Granite (bottom left, 2013-2022), and Taylor (bottom right, born ~2015). 

Below are Taylor (left), puppy Mirabel (center), and Odin in January 2024.