Experience

Supreme Court Library Queensland

• Australia
• Libraries
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Digital Communications Adviser

  • Jun 2022 - Present



Redland City Council

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Digital Collections Coordinator

  • May 2021 - May 2022

  Curated and developed digital collections based on analytics-driven decisions to meet organisational and community needs Consolidated digital collections from three eBook providers to two. As a result, usage of eBooks increased by 10% from February 2021 to February 2022 Led the training of library staff, both in branch and administrative, to use the new Library Management System and provided on site support during the rollout of the system Coordinated Adult Book Club programming, involving choosing an appropriate title each month, preparing material to lead discussions in person at several library branches. Adult Book Club has approximately 40 participants per month Developed and provided training to branch staff on collection marketing and readers’ advisory Trained branch staff on digital collection use, including internal and external apps, so they can provide assistance to patrons Managed public catalogue Initiated a Reconciliation Week - One Book, One Council project to run Winter 2022. Wrote project plan, coordinated marketing and programs development



Spring Lake District Library

• Reference & Website and Social Media Manager

  • Aug 2011 - Apr 2018

  ● Purchased print and audio adult fiction, young adult fiction and middle grade fiction collections in order to match community needs and library’s collection development policy ● Maintained collection through weeding projects, evaluation of donations and damaged items to keep collection current and useful for community ● Used circulation data and hold lists to create improvement strategy to continuously develop collection ● Developed and ran programming with the Youth Services Librarian for ages 0-18. Programs include Summer Reading, Science Thursday Experiment Series, Truck Petting Zoo, Family Scavenger Hunts, Teen Minute to Win It, 1000 Books Before Kindergarten and Storytime. ● Presented to and engaged with community groups such as schools, senior citizens, social clubs and local government boards to deepen the relationship between the library and the community and to educate them about library resources and programs ● Managed website migration project into new content management system, overhauled and rewrote all website content and liaised with external digital agency to meet library objectives and undertook website content maintenance after project delivery ● Created and curated library’s social media presence ● Created marketing material to promote library services and programs, including monthly enewsletter, printed program collateral, readers’ advisory materials and bookmarks ● Developed and ran classes for patrons and trained staff to assist with class topics such as Photoshop, iPad basics and Facebook for businesses. ● Set up and operated technical equipment (iPads, cameras, videography equipment, green screen, sewing machines for makerspace sessions) for patron use and ran related programming