Work Experience
Reference Librarian
Woodburn Public Library , January 2011 – Present
Woodburn, OR
- Provide reference services including reservations of equipment and cultural passes, material renewals, computer assistance and instruction, and reader’s advisory.
- Create monthly library displays and posters.
- Maintain teen in-house multimedia publicity and Facebook account.
- Implement Teen programming: Gaming in the library, Teen Advisory Board, Teen Anime, Teen Tech Week, and the 2012 Summer Reading Program.
- Collection development.
Reference Librarian/Instructor
Pacific University Library , February – May 2010
Forest Grove, OR
- Write LSTA grant proposal for collaborative digital library with Washington County historical societies, museum, and library collections.
- Supervise Archives student workers in providing reference services for patrons and on digitization projects.
- Provide reference services in library and in archives.
- Establish the Campus Life digital collection for the archives and provide advise on creating finding aids.
Project Manager
Pacific University Library, July – October 2009
Forest Grove, OR
- Inventory existing artwork and create a comprehensive acquisitions database.
- Create processing system for accessioning new artwork into the collection.
- Digitize, catalog, and create digital collections in CONTENTdm.
- Supervise photographer in shooting, readying images, and cataloging procedures for acquisitions database and CONTENTdm.
- Make recommendations on preservation and conservation needs, art donation forms, and future collections to add into the digital library.
Reference Librarian/Instructor
Pacific University Library, January – May 2009
Forest Grove, OR
- Provide reference service: answering reference e-mails, phone and reference desk inquiries, and resolve electronic databases issues.
- Provide information literacy instruction including creating online subject guides.
- Collect and maintain reference statistics.
- Collection development.
- Supervise student employees in reference, special projects, and digital projects.
- Recommend standards for implementing future digital collections in CONTENTdm.
- Created library displays, bibliography, and special subject guides.
- Establish annual Asian Day library/art display.
Archives Volunteer
Pacific University Library, October 2008 – January 2009
Forest Grove, OR
- Assessing and processing the Sidney H. Marsh papers including creation of the finding aid using DACS standard.
Visual Resources Librarian*
Savannah College of Art and Design, 1998 – 2008
Savannah, GA
- Develop and implement standards and procedures for the digital collections.
Provide reference services including online guides, tutorials, and pathfinders to visual resources. - Provide instruction in using visual resources, ARTstor software, and incorporating resources into Blackboard, course management system.
- Establish and maintain the departmental intranet site and blog.
- Supervise production quality and deadlines for slide and digital projects.
- Maintain project documentation.
- Collection development.
- Supervise and train VRC staff.
- IT liaison.
- Maintain collection statistics.
- Maintain budgets of office supplies and student employees.
Note: During the ten years working my title changed as my job responsibilities shifted from slides to a digital format, from 1998 my title was Assistant Slide Curator, in 2002 it changed to Associate Visual Resources Curator, and after I received my MLIS degree in 2008 it changed to Visual Resources Librarian.
Programs
- Teen Tech Week 2012 Program at Woodburn Public Library – Iron-on t-shirt design workshop, designed custom 10 Ways to be involved in Teen Tech Week poster and pamphlet.
- First Friday Teen Gaming at Woodburn Public Library, established in 2012.
- Teen Advisory Group at Woodburn Public Library, established in 2012.
- Adult Summer Reading Program 2011 – created four quiz handouts.
Projects
- Established the following digital collections: Pacific University Library Digital Collections, including Campus Life, Permanent Art @ Pacific University, Asian Art Collection, and Latin American Folk Art. (http://pacificu.edu/library/digitalcollections/menu.htm)
- Established the Visual Resources Center blog at the Savannah College of Art and Design (http://blog.scad.edu/vrc/)
- Helped develop the Digital Image Database for the Visual Resources Center. Access limited to the Savannah College of Art and Design community.
Education
- Masters in Library & Information Science
University of South Carolina
2008
- Masters of Fine Arts
Savannah College of Art & Design
1999
- Bachelor of Arts
Hollins University
1995
Technical Skills
- Tools: ARTstor, Adobe Creative Suite Software (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver), Adobe Acrobat Pro, Quark Express, Microsoft Word and Publisher, Access, Excel, FileMaker Pro, Blackboard and Millennium ILS, WordPress, and Blogger.
- Digital Asset Management Systems: CONTENTdm, Greenstone, Digital Commons, and OMEKA.
- Vocabularies: CCO, AAT, ULAN, TNG, LCSH, and TGM.
- Metadata Standards: Dublin Core, VRA, CDWA–lite, EAD, TEI, METS, and MODS.
- Programming: HTML, CSS, XML, PHP
- Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
- Social Media: Facebook, Flickr, Goodreads, LibraryThing, Twitter, Yelp, Google Places