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Thursday, March 14, 2019

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BGSU’s graduate programs ranked among best in U.S

Bowling Green State University’s graduate programs continue to be ranked as some of the best in the country in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Grad School Rankings.

BGSU’s graduate program in education is ranked No. 127, the Master of Public Administration program improved to No. 151 in the public affairs category and the University’s part-time MBA program rose again in the rankings to No. 159.

Previous U.S. News & World Report rankings acknowledged these other outstanding BGSU graduate programs: industrial & organizational psychology (No. 2); sociology (No. 57); speech-language pathology (No. 69); English (No. 108); fine arts (No. 114); psychology (No. 131); clinical psychology (No. 135); history (No. 138); and biological sciences (No. 235).

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David Swartz

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David Swartz

David Swartz has worked for access services as a library technical assistant in the Jerome Library for the last 40 years. But his time at BGSU goes back even further than that. He graduated from Bowling Green State University in the 1970s with bachelor’s degrees in education and German and a minor in French. And his involvement with the University Libraries also began before he even started school here. The summer before his freshman year, he helped move the BGSU library collection from McFall Center to the its new home in the Jerome Library building. He fondly remembers using cardboard beer boxes to transport the books in a pickup truck. The new set-up for the collection was the first time students, faculty and staff could browse the stacks and have direct access to library collections without having a library assistant retrieve the books they needed.

Today, on a regular work day he handles the binding of damaged books, oversees the government document collection and maintains the bindery deadlines for the periodical collection. Over his time in the library, he has noticed that the microfiche and microform subscriptions in the collection have gone from 400 to 5, as technology advancements and online access have made that specific archiving medium almost extinct. While the task of repairing damages can be repetitive, he enjoys the freedom he has in his position. He likes being able to choose his work and “not being tied to a concrete schedule.” He will be honored at the Years of Service ceremony on March 26 for his dedication to the University.

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