Master of Arts in Librarianship

University of Sheffield – Sheffield, England 2001

Equivalent to ALA MLS per ALA’s foreign credential evaluation

Master of Business Administration

Leeds University Business School – Leeds, England 2000

Bachelor of Arts with Honors and Cum Laude

The Ohio State University – Columbus, Ohio 1996

Head of Collection Management

University of Memphis, Ned R. McWherter Library

Memphis, Tennessee December 2008 – present

Acquisitions Librarian

University of New Orleans, Earl K. Long Memorial Library

New Orleans, Louisiana June 2007 – November 2008

Head of Collection Management

McNeese State University, Frazar Memorial Library

Lake Charles, Louisiana November 2003 – June 2007

Reference Librarian

Mount Union College Library

Alliance, Ohio November 2001 – November 2003

Substitute Librarian

Akron-Summit County Public Library

Akron, Ohio December 2001 – November 2003

Assistant Manager

Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Franklin University

Columbus, Ohio August 1998 – August 1999

Inventory Manager, Merchandising Manager, Café Manager, District Manager’s Assistant

Border Group, Inc

Columbus, Ohio 1990 – 1999

Planning and Management

- Over 10 years experiences in budget administration / fund management

- Over 7 years relevant management experience in libraries

- Additional 5 years relevant management experience in bookstores

- Project management and change implementation

- Strategic planning training and experience

- Policy and procedures creation and documentation

- Interviewing / hiring in search committees and independently

- Grant writing, reviewing, and administering

- Staff review, development, and coaching

- Writing requests for bids

- Contract negotiation

- Marketing / outreach

- Statistical analysis

Librarianship and User Services

- Over 10 years collection development experience in libraries and bookstores

- Database administration including ordering and license management

- Reference – desk / research assistance, virtual reference: chat and IM

- Instruction / teaching – for-credit course (UNO), library instruction classes

- Presenting – professional training seminars, workshops, conferences

- Outreach – liaison activities, faculty receptions

- Circulation – policy creation and collaboration

- Interlibrary loan – administration, policy creation and collaboration

- Collaboration building – ADA program, grant application / administration

- Technical services – copy-cataloging, physical processing

- Active in professional organizations

- Active in publishing

Technology

- Integrated Library Systems: SirsiDynix and Innovative Interfaces

- Accounting systems: PeopleSoft and SunGard Banner Finance

- Interlibrary Loan systems: RapidILL, ILLiad 7.4, ILLiad 8.0, BSCAN

- Electronic ordering and invoicing, including 9XX and X12 EDI standards

- Vendor ordering systems: many

- MaRC record editing: MarcEdit

- Web Content Management Systems: LCMS, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, others

- HTML editing / website construction and maintenance

- Database construction and maintenance

- ERM and Link resolver maintenance: III ERM and Serials Solutions

- Statistical analysis

- Systems troubleshooting

Presenter at LOUIS Users Conference, 2007

Paraprofessional Pre-weeding Facilitate Review Process for Non-research Collections

This presentation discussed the importance of continuous weeding in shallow collections and articulated paraprofessional implementation of the Scopes Method as part of daily stacks maintenance.

Presenter at LOUIS Users Conference, 2007

Using Selection List Wizards for Collection Development

This presentation introduced Selection Lists function of the ILS and discussed implementation strategies. Co-presented with Karen Cook, Government Documents Librarian, University of Louisiana at Monroe

Assessment of Academic Library Effectiveness: Using the ACRL Standards for Continuous Evaluation

The ACRL-LA executive officers organized a workshop run by William Nelson and Robert Ferneke. Over 50 people attended this day-long event held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (on organization committee)

Invited Presenter at LOUIS Users Conference, 2006

X Marks the Spot: Using 9XX Ordering in Workflows

This presentation was on automated order creation in the SirsiDynix Unicorn ILS system.

Invited Presenter at SirsiDynix International Superconference, 2006

You Reap What You Sow: Planning Funds and Fund Levels for Flexible and Meaningful Reports

This presentation was on strategic planning and statistics gathering via nested fund codes.

Invited Workshop Instructor at LaSSAL, the Louisiana Support Staff Association of Libraries, 2006

Step, Step, Pivot, Step: Using Pivot Tables in MS Excel

This was a pre-conference training seminar at the 2006 Louisiana Support Staff Association of Libraries Annual Conference in using MS Excel.

Invited Presenter at LOUIS Systems Administrators Boot Camp, 2005

One, For the Money: An Introduction to Funds and Fund Levels in SIRSI Workflows

This was a training seminar on the role of the Systems Administrator and his or her relationship to the Collection Manager in setting up the Acquisitions Module of the Sirsi Unicorn ILS.

Invited Presenter at LOUIS Users Conference, 2004

Eat it Raw: Using MS Excel to Analyze Raw Data from Workflows Reports

This presentation introduced exportation of comma-delimited data from standard reports into MS Excel for data manipulation and analysis.

Article

Do I Need One or Do I Have One: Formal and Informal Electronic Resource Management Systems

Published in Louisiana Libraries. Fall 2007, Vol. 70, No. 2

Book Reviews

What’s the Alternative: Career Options for Librarians and Info Pros. Rachel Singer Gordon. Medford, New Jersey: Information Today, Inc, 2008. (Book Review)

Published in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. March 2009, Vol. 60, No. 3

The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism. Ed. By Leslie L. Heywood. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006 (Book Review)

Published in Reference and User Services Quarterly. Winter 2006, Vol. 46, No. 2

Drugs and Society. Ed. By Michael J. Kuhar and Howard Liddle. Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2006. (Book Review)

Published in Reference and User Services Quarterly. Spring 2006, Vol. 45, No. 3

Encyclopedia Entries

"Ando, Tadao."

Published in Encyclopedia of World Biography, 1998 ed. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc.

"Southey, Robert."

Published in Encyclopedia of World Biography, 1998 ed. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc.

UNIV 1001: UNIVERSITY SUCCESS

University of New Orleans, Spring 2008.

Graded one credit hour course on topics including time management, effective note-taking, test preparation, campus diversity, and university resources.

- American Library Association, Member (1992-present)

- ACRL Chapters Council, Member (2003-present), Chair (2008-2009), Vice-Chair (2007-2008), Secretary (2006-2007)

- ACRL-LA, Member (2003-2008), Chapter President (2005-2007), Chapter Past-President (2007-2008)

- ACRL, Member (2003-present)

- American Society of Information Science and Technology, Member (1999-present)

- Louisiana Libraries Association, Member (2003-2008)

- Tennessee Libraries Association, Member (2010-present)

EBSCO ALA Annual Conference Sponsorship, 2008 for $1,000 (personal)

SOLINET's Academic Library Hurricane Recovery Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2006

The award for $25,000 went to replacing library materials lost as a result of Hurricane Rita.

Louisiana Rebirth: Restoring the Soul of America, 2006 (co-writer)

This initiative spearheaded by Mitch Landrieu was a statewide response to help artists and arts organizations recover from the hurricanes Rita and Katrina. This $25,000 grant, by compensating for the loss of membership, permitted the McNeese Banners Arts and Humanities Series to fulfill its obligations for the 2006 season even though our usual venues had been damaged by the hurricanes.

Capacity Building Planning Grant through the Louisiana Division of the Arts Grants Program, 2006 (co-writer)

This award of approximately $15,000 paid for a consultancy for our campus Arts and Humanities Series to investigate processes which might facilitate expansion and longevity of the 15 year old series.

Capacity Building Planning Grant through the Louisiana Division of the Arts Grants Program, 2007 (co-writer)

This $7,200 Planning Grant was to carry forward the work of the Capacity Building Grant

Capacity Building Implementation Grant through the Louisiana Division of the Arts Grants Program, 2008 (co-writer)

This Grant was to carry forward the work of the previous Capacity Building Planning Grants

Community Support Fund, Fall 2006

Chairing a subcommittee of the Faculty Senate, I was awarded a grant of $35,000 towards the purchase of equipment to broadcast the graduation ceremonies onto large video screens in the coliseum.

Community Support Fund, 2005-2006

This request for just under $10,000 funded the library's purchase of the Solinet netLibrary Consortium purchase of Shared Collection V.

Louisiana Decentralized Arts Funding Grants Review Panelist, 2007

As co-author of successful Louisiana Decentralized Grant Funds Proposals, I was asked to sit on the panel to review applications

National

- American Library Association, Member (1992-present)

- ACRL Chapters Council (2003-present) Secretary (2006-2007), Vice-Chair (2007-2008), Past-Chair (2008-2009)

Regional

- Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, BBQ Guide Project Co-Chair (2011)

Statewide

- Tennessee Library Association, Member, (2010-present), Electronic Resource Materials Roundtable, Chair (2011-2012)

- ACRL-LA, Member (1993-2003), Chapter President (2005-2007), Chapter Past-President (2007-2008)

- LALINC Research and Development Committee (2003-2008), Chair (2005-2007)

- LALINC Collections Committee (2005-2008)

- Louisiana Decentralized Arts Funding Grants Review Panelist (2007)

Ned R. McWherter Library, University of Memphis

- Library Administrative Council Member (2008–present)

- Research and Information Services Team Member (2009–present)

- Library Liaison Committee Chair (2008–2011)

- Integrated Library Systems (ILS) Committee (2009-present)

- Faculty Chair (2009-present)

- Library Web Team Member (2009-present)

- Disaster Preparedness Committee (2010–present)

- Student Supervisors Committee (2010–present)

- LibQual+ Library User Satisfaction Committee (2010-present)

- Collection Development Librarian search committee (2010)

- Integrated Library System Librarian search committee (2010-2011)

Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans

- Library Redesign Task Force - for the Learning Commons (2007-2008)

- Acquisitions Team Leader (2007-2008)

- Various search committees

Frazar Memorial Library, McNeese State University

- Master Plan / Progress Report Committee (2003-2007), Chair (2005-2006)

- Weeding Committee (2003-2007), Chair (2003-2007)

- Serials Evaluation Committee (2003-2007)

- Library Survey Committee (2003-2007)

- Web Executive Committee (2003-2007)

- Faculty Tenure and Promotion Committee (2003-2007)

- Systems Committee (2004-2007)

- Student Appreciation Committee (2003)

McNeese State University

- Banners- McNeese Arts and Humanities Series (2003-present)

- McNeese Black History Month Planning Committee (2003-2007)

- McNeese Withdrawal Appeals Committee (2003-2007)

- McNeese United Way Committee (2005-2007)

- McNeese Shearman Grant Committee (2003-2007)

- McNeese Academic Integrity Council (2003-2007)

- McNeese Faculty Senate (2005-2007), Vice President (2006-2007)

- McNeese QEP Steering Committee (2006-2007)

- Various search committees

Citywide

- Representative to Memphis Area Library Council (MALC) (2008 - 2010)

- MALC, Award of Excellence Committee Member (2010)

- Lake Charles City Advisory Committee to the Mayor on Cultural Affairs (2006-2007)

- United Way of Southwest Louisiana, Allocations and Review Committee (2005-2007)

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