Professional Experience:
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Systems Librarian
and Assistant Professor (Tenure Track),
October 2006 -
Systems and Electronic Resources Librarian and Assistant Professor (Tenure Track),
August 2006 - October 2006
Ezra Lehman Memorial Library,
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania,
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
- Responsibilities
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Manage Endeavor Voyager ILS
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Maintain the integrity of the bibliographic database
and support the Technical Services Department
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Generate management reports and data extracts as needed
to support the use of the library management system
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Represent Shippensburg University Library at
Voyager users' group meetings
- Manage electronic resources
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Maintain open url services,
document delivery services,
and federated search tools
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Lead the acquisition, management, and promotion
of electronic resources including
the design and utilization of statistical reports
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Plan and coordinate assessment of electronic resources
- Manage web design
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Design changes, implement protocol, monitor maintenance and currency of pages,
and collaborate with faculty and staff regularly regarding web site development
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Coordinate library faculty (liaisons) to maintain subject pages
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Establish and maintain access to databases and subscriptions with the Collection Management Librarian
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Implement and maintain remote services with the Distance Education librarian
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Coordinate development and maintenance of special pages (e.g., Luhrs, government documents, etc.)
with appropriate librarians
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Lead library web design team.
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Coordinate the activities of the Library IT Technician
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Promote the Information Commons
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Work collaboratively with Instructional Design and Development Services (IDDS)
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Liaise with College of Business departments to determine collection development priorities and provide library instructon
- Outcomes
Network Services Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Adminstration (Tenured),
July 2006 - August 2006
Network Services Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Adminstration (Tenure Track),
July 2001 - June 2006
- Responibilities
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Integrate and maintain local and remote network resources and services within the Library InfoStation framework
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Develop and implement integrated, dynamic web and database applications
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Share administration and maintenance of the Horizon integrated library system
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Develop and maintain access to electronic documents
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Develop and lead workshops and seminars for staff and library users on networked library resources and services
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Participate in regular Reference Desk rotation
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Work closely with other library departments to develop and implement new information products and services
Outcomes
- Granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in 2006
- Designed, created, implemented, and maintain asp code for quizzes and backend Microsoft Access
quiz results database for
LILT - a Library Information Literacy Tutorial
A tool for preparing APSU freshman to learn college level research concepts
- Implemented and maintain backend MySQL database and customized php code for quizzes and quiz results for
Plagiarism: The Crime of Intellectual Kidnapping
A tutorial teaching APSU freshman to recognize and avoid plagiarism
- Designed, created, and maintain the Tennessee
Database of Library Database Subscriptions
A tool for planning for future consortial database purchases among institutions in Tennessee
- Designed, created, and implemented Periodical Use Study
Database
A tool for estimating print periodical usage
- Modified Periodical Use Study for the
Serials Cancellation Project
A tool for guiding departmental faculty decisions during a 45% subscriptions cancellation project
- Proposed, designed, and implemented a Terminal Server solution for the Library
InfoStations
This solution reduced administrative overhead by consolidating eighteen individual
workstation settings onto one machine with eighteen clients
- Planned and performed two complete computer hardware replacements in the
Library Instruction and Computer Room (LICR)
Removal and replacement due to university-wide three year technology replacement cycle
- Configured locations and determined process for scanning electronic reserves (eReserves)
paper copies into adobe acrobat files
This enabled the Reserves personnel to easily scan paper reserves to a stable location for
linking to eReserves from the Horizon "Reserve Book room" module
- Installed and configured OCLC's ContentDM for digital library project
This enabled the Digital Services Librarian to begin her work on the nascent APSU Digital Library
- Co-administer Dynix
Horizon database,
Horizon Information Portal (HIP), and
Remote Patron Authentication (RPA)
These systems allow staff to catalog resources and users to find and access [physical and electronic] resources
- Installed, configured, and maintain ezproxy services
This allows better retention of user authentication status across multiple databases
- Administer lib.apsu.edu sub-domain, approximately a dozen servers, and approximately eighty workstations
With full control of all library computers available, software updates and rollouts are simplified, and
workstation, server, and services troubleshooting is streamlined and kept in-house
Information Services Librarian and Instructor of Library Adminstration (Temporary),
May 2000 - July 2001
Felix G. Woodward Library, Austin Peay State University,
Clarksville, Tennessee
- Responibilities
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Participate in regular Reference Desk rotation
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Conduct Library Instruction Sessions
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Develop and implement better access to Government Documents CD-ROM collection
- Outcomes
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Designed and developed web-enabled, searchable
APSU Government Documents CD-ROM Collection
A tool for more easily finding Government Document Collection CD-ROMs
- Instruction Sessions: 17 classes; 296 students; Covered Library Website,
Online Catalog, InfoTrac, PsycInfo, CINAHL
Information Resources Manager, Investment Banking Group, January 1999 - January 2000
SunTrust Equitable Securities Corporation,
Nashville, Tennessee
- Responibilities
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Organize and implement Information Resources Center
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Verify and manage Records Retention Policy adherence
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Prepare Investment Banking Group files for possible Y2K problems
- Outcomes
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Created a knowledgebase of Bankers' specialties, activities, and potential deal opportunities
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Prepared and tracked status of Y2K "fixes" and tested several scenarios for possible failure
Was on duty as "Y2K Hour" passed, tested programs and systems for failures, had no failures at all
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Reviewed Information Resource Center usage statistics
Recommended discontinuance of Information Resource Center and termination of my position,
based on non-use of created resources
Librarian (Assistant Branch Manager), Ooltewah/Collegedale Branch Library, December 1995 - November 1997
- Responibilities
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Participate in regular desk rotations
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Collection development as needed
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Train branch staff on new CARL ILS processes
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Cover everything not covered due to absences
- Outcomes
Librarian (Interim Reference Librarian), Main Library, May 1996 - July 1996
Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library,
Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Responibilities
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Participate in regular reference desk rotations
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Assist patrons with CD-ROM collection
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Collection development projects as assigned
- Outcomes
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Weeded American History collection (973s)
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Weeded Technology collection (690s)
Librarian I, East Flatbush Branch Library, December 1994 - November 1995
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York
- Responibilities
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Participate in regular desk rotations
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Collection development as needed
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Coordinate summer pen-pal program
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Conduct Reading is Fundamental (RIF) programs
- Outcomes
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Successful inter-branch pen-pal program with 63 particiapnts
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Science Fiction collection development workshop
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Successful repeat RIF participants