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Teri Switzer, dean, Kraemer Family Library at UCCS, served on the 2014 H.W. Wilson Library Staff Development jury of the American Library Association. The jury recently selected the Martin County (Fla.) Library System to receive a grant to improve library customer service. The grant will be awarded at the American Library Association Annual Conference scheduled for June in Las Vegas. …

Stephany Rose Spaulding’s new book, “Abolishing White Masculinity From Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crises in Whiteness,” was published this month. The book examines white American male literature for its social commentary on the construction of whiteness in the United States. Spaulding is an assistant professor in the Department of Women’s and Ethnic Studies at UCCS.