Faculty Spotlight: Thomas Weeks

Outstanding Faculty Award for the University Libraries

For Thomas Weeks, reference and instruction librarian and assistant professor in the University Libraries, being hired at Augusta University was literally like coming home – to a city he loves where his family still lives.  

Weeks grew up in Evans, Georgia, and graduated in 2012 from then-Augusta State University with his Bachelor of Arts in English degree. After receiving his Master’s of Library and Information Science degree from Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia, he found an opening at Augusta University and celebrated 10 years here this past spring. 

Based in the Reese Library on the Summerville Campus, Weeks focuses on information literacy with students and faculty in the Pamplin College and the College of Education and Human Development.  

“I get to meet so many different students with diverse and creative ideas about learning and the research process,” he said. “I have the freedom to take these experiences and develop learning experiences and projects as I see the need. I also get to collaborate with faculty across colleges and departments to meet the needs of their students.” 

The librarian was also honored by the University Senate as Outstanding Faculty Member in the University Libraries in 2019. 

“Since I was nominated and voted on by my colleagues, it makes me feel like others see what I am doing and know it has value,” Weeks said. “Sometimes the work of the libraries is invisible to most people, so having that work recognized means a lot.” 

He would like to further AU’s focus on student success, especially with how it translates to success after they graduate. 

“For me, this looks like continuing to work on information literacy, because that is a skill set that outlives writing a research paper and carries on into careers and other aspects of our lives,” Weeks said. “So, I’d like to see us continue to think of ways to meaningfully integrate information literacy into our curriculum as a student success initiative.”