Experience
Children's Librarian, Tucson-Pima Public Library, October 2003 to present
- Plan and perform weekly storytimes (English and bilingual),
as well as all other programming for children, including annual Summer
Reading Club, El Día de los Niños, school visits, and Family
Place™.
- Provide timely and relevant reference and readers' advisory
services.
- Member of Emerging Technology Committee.
- Assist in collection development through retrospective
ordering and weeding.
Chair, Save SIRLS Steering Committee, January 2003
to November 2003
- Organized and led fundraising and awareness campaign in
support of the School of Information Resources & Library Science.
- Designed Website for the organization (site no longer
online)
Owner, Mutabilis Web Design, July 2002 to November
2003
- Specializing in instructional design, but also available
for brochureware sites and personal software instruction
- Designed website for Jay
Rochlin, Photographer, and taught him and his wife how to maintain the
site themselves using Dreamweaver software
- Designed logo for the d-list
database.
Social Sciences Team Librarian (temporary), University
of Arizona Library; July 2001 to June 2002 and August 2002 to December 2002
- Team resource person for webpage creation, maintenance;
I revised older resource pages to incorporate current research in usability;
added navigation; updated and corrected HTML
- Created web-based tutorials (both interactive and static)
for a variety of subject areas and classes, as well as for databases.
- Assist students and professors with research problems
in all subject areas (from government documents to art history to business)
- Instruct students in Library research skills, especially
in the use of the library's many databases
- Information Commons assistance to students and staff
on wide range of software (MS Office, Adobe PhotoShop, OmniPage Pro, Dreamweaver,
etc.)
- Projects (see portfolio for links):
- Redesign of Government
Documents pages (with Atifa Rawan, Government Documents Librarian)
- "Stalking
the Wily Ethnography," a set of tutorials teaching beginning
students how to identify ethnographic materials (with Olivia Olivares,
Anthropology Librarian)
- "Lexis-Nexis
Tutorial" (created
with Atifa Rawan, Government Documents Librarian)
- "Statistics
Resource Finder" (with Chris Kollen, Map Librarian)
Web Designer, School of Information Resources and Library
Science; May 2001 to October 2001 (partnership with Atilla Vékony)
- Redesigned the look and information architecture of an
aging and poorly organized university department website
- Conducted usability studies of old website; surveyed
students, staff and faculty for suggestions regarding content, load time
and information structure
- Surveyed websites of other Library and Information Science
schools for ideas and possible pitfalls
- Created new structure of website, sitemap and navigation;
designed welcome and interior pages
- Rewrote and updated content on resources pages; developed
new pages to reflect the changing needs of our student body and other unmet
needs
- Tested new website for load time and usability
- New SIRLS website
went live September, 2001
Student Library Assistant, University of Arizona Library;
January 2001 to July 2001
- Created and maintained websites indexing research resources
in the areas of History, Women's StuFebruary 5, 2007weaver software
- Assisted in book selection, compilation of teaching session
hand-outs, and bibliography creation, using EndNote software
- Projects (partial list):
- The
Meanings of Freedom in American History: A Research Guide
- Lists
of History Microforms in the University of Arizona Library System
Cataloging Assistant, Arizona State Museum Library, Tucson,
AZ; July 2000 to December 2000
- Assisted with catalog re-conversion project, cataloging
books and serials using OCLC CatExpress
- Converted books and bibliographic records from Dewey Decimal
System to Library of Congress.
Web History Project Student Assistant, University of Arizona
Library; September 1999 to July 2000
- Created and added content to the Library's Web History
exhibits in HTML using Homesite 4.0
- Created Website navigational structure and checked for
usability issues
- Scanned material in different formats and edited them
using Adobe Photoshop or Omni-Page Pro
Library Assistant, Sunrise Drive School, Tucson, AZ; August
1997 to May 1999
- Cataloged books and other media using Follett Unison
software; corrected cataloging mistakes in earlier records; maintained patron
database
- Selected, ordered and processed all new library books
- Taught children library search skills and provided reader's
advisory and reference services to teachers and students
- Assisted Librarian in the creation of yearly lesson plans;
developed original instruction and taught classes at all grade levels, K-5
- Created events publicity, new signage for fiction room
and annotated bibliographies
- Identified needs and wrote successful grants for collection
renovation
- Told stories and gave booktalks to classes
Book Salesperson, San Marino Toy and Book Shoppe, San
Marino, CA; March 1995 to January 1997
- Provided reader's advisory to parents, family members,
teachers and children
- Placed orders with book distributors and publishers;
re-organized special publisher order system to improve response time and
cost efficiency
- Participated in booktalk seminars reviewing new children's
books for parents and teachers
Book Salesperson, The Haunted
Bookshop, Tucson, AZ; February 1994 to January 1995
- Performed reader's advisory for all departments of large
independent bookstore
- Utilized Booklog Inventory System to ring up sales and
manage inventory; drew on two prior automation experiences to help smooth
the change to this computerized system
- Created book displays on specific subjects such as British
literature and summer children's activities, books and media
Library Assistant, Deerfield Public Library, Deerfield,
IL; September, 1992 to July, 1993
- Performed reader's advisory for infants through 8th graders
and their families
- Answered reference questions and assisted patrons in
use of online catalog (GEAC)
- Evaluated book reviews and suggested books for purchase,
consulting seven different journals
- Planned, publicized and performed pre-school and school
age storytimes including weekly activity hand-outs with songs and fingerplays
- Created posters for in-house publicity using computer
graphics, clip art and my own artwork.
Library Assistant II and Acting Branch Head, El Paso Public
Library, El Paso, TX; December 1988 to May 1992
- Managed children's services for the Westside and later,
the Lower Valley Branch Libraries
- Performed pre-school storytimes and school booktalks
(K-6) in English and Spanish
- Planned, publicized and supervised children's events,
including Summer Reading Club; Reading Club participation doubled in two
years
- In addition to above, executed the duties of Library
Branch Head for 18 months:
- Supervised clerical staff of four, plus four volunteers
- Ordered adult and children's books with an annual budget
of $25,000
- Responded to all reader's advisory and reference questions
- Submitted budget requests and oversaw maintenance of
facilities
- Planned, publicized and supervised the branch's 30th
anniversary celebration.
Professional Organizations
Member, American Library Association (ALA) since 1991
Member, REFORMA
Webmaster and Past-President, REFORMA Tucson Chapter
Member, Arizona Library Association (AzLA)
Member, Public Library Association (PLA)
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