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English, Scot, French, Irish, German, Native American
Sally was born in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Sally Jo Shelton
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Sally Jo Moore, Sally J. Shelton
Education
Dr. Shelton graduated summa cum laude from Oral Roberts University with a BA in French and a minor in education. After obtaining her Master's of Library & Information Studies from the University of Oklahoma in 1995, having received a nomination to the Beta Phi Mu International Library Honor Society, she obtained an MA with high honors in theology from ORU's College of Theology & Ministry. In 2016, she earned a PhD in Christian theology from Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA, where she was selected the William J. Dooner Scholar for two consecutive years (2007-2009) and received a Dean's Leadership Award (2010-2011). As an ORU employee, she received a customer service award in 2002 and an honorable mention for Professionalism in the Classroom: Award for Innovation (2004). Dr. Shelton has been nominated for Marquis' Who's Who of American Women (2008-2009) and Who's Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges (2010), and in 2016 was listed in Who's Who in America.
Career
As Theological Librarian, Dr. Sally Jo Shelton is a member of both the Library and the College of Theology & Ministry (COTM) faculties. Her primary responsibility is theological collection development, which involves selecting books, journals, and databases to support the academic programs and research of the COTM faculty and students. For the last two years (2017-2019), she has invested much of her time collecting materials needed to support ORU's new PhD program in contextual theology.
Other responsibilities include reference and library instruction for theology courses. Dr. Shelton also writes the semi-annual library reports for the ORU Board of Trustees, updating the library portion of the University catalog and other campus publications, and gathering statistics for the library surveys required by the government (IPEDS' AL) and by accrediting agencies (ABET, ATS, CACREPO, and CSWE) as well as those requested by library associations (ACRL).
An ORU alumna, Dr. Shelton returned to ORU after working six years in church librarianship, directing a 10,000-volume church library in downtown Tulsa. Immediately following graduation from ORU she taught high school French and English for a year in Okmulgee before working six years as writer and managing editor of Oral Roberts' inspirational magazine, Daily Blessing, at the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association. She then worked as a freelance writer while being a stay-at-home mother for ten years.
Hired as instructor of Learning Resources in August 1996, Dr. Shelton has had several roles in the Library over the last 23 years, beginning as a cataloger of HSRC audiovisual materials, then assisting the electronic resources librarian by designing and maintaining the Database List and helping to administer the Library's integrated search tool, OneSearch, also serving as faculty facilitator, offering library workshops to faculty, including a workshop for new faculty each year for 20 years. In 2010, Dr. Shelton was appointed acting theological librarian and, upon earning her PhD in 2016, was granted the full title.
In addition to her library responsibilities, Dr. Shelton has served the University as the Arts & Sciences Faculty Senate representative to the University Faculty Assembly (2000-2001), the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Committee member (2004-2005), ePortfolio Rubrics Subcommittee member (2004), General Education Committee (2003, 2009), library representative to the Chairs' Council (2009), and library representative to the Faculty Senate (2009-2012). She has also served on a number of accreditation committees including those related to the Higher Learning Commission (2007-2010) and the Association of Theological Schools. In addition, Dr. Shelton has served as chair of the COTM Library Committee since 2010 and member of the 21st Century Theological Education Task Force, the ad hoc mission statement committee (2014), the PhD Committee (2015-2019), and the Curriculum Committee (on-going). Her library committee work includes serving on faculty search committees, the library web committee (2010-2011), and currently the library instruction committee.
Dr. Shelton taught the Seminar in Theological Research (a graduate-level course) for three years (2005-2007) as well as Theological French in the spring of 2018. She is currently serving as a reader of a Regent University dissertation and has also been a reader for an ORU DMin applied research project. She is currently teaching the Research Methods course for PhD students.
Religion
Raised in the Open Bible Church--a classical Pentecostal denomination--Sally Shelton began attending the United Methodist Church in the late 1970s, then entered the Roman Catholic Church on July 13, 1997.
Connections
Dr. Shelton is married to professor Dr. James B. Shelton of the undergraduate Theology Department and is mother of three and grandmother of seven.
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