JCSU News Release

JCSU Promotes Alum as Acting Library
Services Director

October 19, 2007 - Johnson C. Smith University recently promoted Monika Rhue, MLIS as its Acting Director Library Services for the campus’ James B. Duke Memorial Library.

She received her B.A. in telecommunications from Johnson C. Smith University in 1991. Rhue then completed her masters in library science from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2002. She also received her public library certification in 2004.

Rhue has spent the last eight years of her professional career at JCSU serving as a library technician, associate archivist, and archival services librarian. In all these positions she has had the opportunity to create policies and procedures to increase the operational needs of the library.

As a library technician, she implemented standards to ensure that the serial collection supported the curriculum and accreditation of the academic departments. Rhue also re-organized the Inez Moore Parker Archives after fifteen years of dormancy. She also launched JCSUs first digitization project, Down Through The Years: The Heritage of Johnson C. Smith University. JCSU is among the few HBCU’s that possess archives that are fully accessible and well connected to the community. She also assisted in generating $336,468 in grant funds to support special projects within the library. Rhue has been accepted into this year's Marquis Who's Who publications. She is the first African American to serve as President of Society of North Carolina Archivists.

“ I am passionate about the success of Johnson C. Smith University,” Rhue said. “I believe the library plays a crucial role in helping the University provide ‘an outstanding education for a diverse group of talented and highly motivated students from various ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographical backgrounds’as outlined in the institutional mission statement.”

As JCSU’s new acting director of library services, Rhue will be responsible for overseeing the operation of the James B. Duke Memorial Library. She is married to Stephen Eric Short and they reside in Charlotte. Rhue is a native of Georgetown, S.C.