Experience

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  Ochsner Health System

  • Greater New Orleans Area

  • Medical Librarian

    • 2013 - Present
    • Greater New Orleans Area

    All phases of library service in a major metropolitan academic medical center.

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  [self-employed]

  • Chicago; New Orleans

  • Technical Writer

    • 2003 - 2013
    • Chicago; New Orleans

    • Software specification and documentation• Data modeling• Relational database design

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  Encyclopaedia Britannica

  • Chicago

  • Classifier

    • 1997 - 2003
    • Chicago

    • Responsible for the Encyclopædia Britannica Thesaurus Classification, a semantic taxonomy of 250,000 subject headings used as the basis for Encyclopædia Britannica’s information architecture.• Designed Britannica’s Knowledge Navigator, the subject browser for Britannica’s DVD/CD-ROM editions.• Designed Britannica’s bibliography database.• Developed specifications and standards for Britannica’s proprietary Information Management and Retrieval System (IMARS), and comprehensively analyzed its interoperability with external standards.• Wrote the Encyclopædia Britannica Thesaurus Classification Guide, documenting Britannica’s philosophy and methods of knowledge management.• Wrote articles for Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica.com and Britannica Book of the Year.

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  Hinsdale Public Library

  • Hinsdale, Illinois (Greater Chicago Area)

  • Reference Librarian

    • 1991 - 1997
    • Hinsdale, Illinois (Greater Chicago Area)

    • Online searcher (including DIALOG and other fee-based services).• Collection developer for books in the DDC 700s (the arts) and 800s (literature), and for music recordings.• Bibliographic instruction coordinator for OPAC and LAN implementations.• Classification developer and cataloger of vertical file collection (7500+ items, 1500+ subject headings).• Member, Metropolitan Library System’s SWAN (OPAC) and MARC Advisory Committees.• Supervisor and trainer of part-time librarians and paraprofessionals.