Experience

East Georgia State College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Library Director

  • Jul 2012 - Present

  • Developed, implemented and managed services, procedures and policies for public, technical and information services • Administered the library’s integrated library system (Voyager) • Developed and administered budgets • Promoted library services within the college and to the community at-large • Provided library reference services for faculty, staff, students, and the public via face-to-face, phone, and email interactions • Created library guides for specific subjects and courses using Libguides software • Performed circulation desk duties; checked materials in and out; collected library fines and other fees; added and edited student, faculty, staff, and public user information to library records • Oversaw collection development • Represented the college and library at local, state, regional and national meetings



South University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Reference Librarian

  • Jul 2011 - Jul 2012

  • Provided reference services to both ground and online students and faculty via face-to-face, phone, and email interactions • Served as the library liaison to the Business department: created finding aids and coordinated library instruction • Cataloged books and periodicals and processed new materials; provided circulation services to patrons • Taught basic and advanced library instruction sessions to students in a variety of academic programs • Provided reference services to both ground and online students and faculty via face-to-face, phone, and email interactions • Served as the library liaison to the Business department: created finding aids and coordinated library instruction • Cataloged books and periodicals and processed new materials; provided circulation services to patrons • Taught basic and advanced library instruction sessions to students in a variety of academic programs



Michigan State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Reference and Instruction Librarian

  • Jan 2010 - May 2011

  • Completed the conversion of many of MSU's research guides to Libguides software from Libdata software • Aided with the weeding of the reference collection from 100,000 volumes to approximately 10,000 volumes and completed the physical move of the books to a new reference section of the library • Taught library instruction sessions for Tier-One (first-year) writing students • Provided reference services to a diverse group of patrons including faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students, and members of the public via telephone and face-to-face interactions • Provided chat reference services using QuestionPoint within a Michigan cooperative to both Michigan and nation-wide patrons • Maintained a high-quality chat service by monitoring chat transcripts and following up with MSU patrons via email when further communication was warranted • Produced finding aids and library instruction guides for patron use • Represented the library at resource and study abroad fairs as well as gave tours of the library to prospective students and parents