Kelly Blanchat, MLIS
Undergraduate Teaching and Outreach Librarian
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Biography
Kelly Marie Blanchat is a librarian at Yale University Library. She works with undergraduate students to develop their information literacy skills, including information retrieval and critical evaluation skills. Kelly has a Masters of Library and Information Science from Long Island University, a Bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College, and has studied digital humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY. In her free time she writes proposals to Unicode for new emojis (you can thank her for such emojis as skunk, sloth, ladder, shorts, and briefs) with the goal to make emojis more inclusive, diverse, and global.
Education & Training
- MLISLong Island University, Master of Science in Library and Information Science
- BASarah Lawrence College, Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Outstanding Publication of the Year | Association for Library Collections and Technical Services | 2018 |