Melanie Reddell has joined LSU Libraries as the Business Office Coordinator. Her duties include handling supplies purchases, travel expenses, and student payroll.

Reddell's goals for her position includes identifying areas where it is possible to streamline processes and/or create new and efficient procedures and expand her skill set in as many areas as possible. Reddell worked in a very similar position at the University of Northern Colorado as part of the UNC Active Schools Institute from 2017 – 2020. She was in charge of all purchasing and faculty and staff travel, among many other things.

Reddell is from Lafayette, LA and received her bachelor’s degree at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2015. She loves to read tons of fiction as well as participate in mountain-related activities such as hiking, horseback riding, and snow sledding and tubing.