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Interim Librarian for the Warner School of Education, Outreach Librarian for the Humanities (Philosophy, Religion and Classics) January 2016 – present

Responsibilities:

• Collection Development: Managing monographic budget of $98,000 and a serials budget of $215,000 to support the research of 58 faculty members, 580 Warner school graduate students, 60 Philosophy graduate and undergraduate students, 100 Theology and Ministry graduate students, and 30 Religion and Classics undergraduates.

• Information Literacy: Organizing the RCL Reference Management group which includes arranging workshops at the undergraduate and graduate level. Providing Library orientation for graduate students at the Warner School of Education, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, and St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry. Working closely with faculty to arrange for research assistance/information literacy for undergraduate classes.

• High-School Outreach: Lead coordinator for RCL support of the Western New York Consortium of Baccalaureate Schools, consisting of over 20 school districts and bringing over 150 sophomores and juniors to campus for research on their Extended Essay. Co-coordinating visits from Wilson Magnet High School for a week-long intensive introduction to research (averaging 100 students). Participating and co-organizing the “High School to College” sessions for teachers and librarians led by Monroe BOCES 2.

• Creating Community of Reading: Managing the Popular Reading Collection, hosting RCL-sponsored Rush Rhees Reads (an undergraduate book club (started in 2012), co-leading the Classics Book Group with Professor Nick Gresens (started in 2015).

• Additionally, co-coordinated the Chat service from 2013-2017, assisting with training in both technical support and reference for Patron Services and Outreach departments.

Subject Librarian for Philosophy, and Assistant to the Head of Collection Development, November 2006 – December 2013

Responsibilities included:

• Data Collection for Serials Review: collected data on cost and usage of subscribed journals, created Access databases for the Head of Collection Development to use when negotiating with publishers.

• Gift Book and Booksale Coordinator: Managed the Gift Book program by sorting donations to be sent subject librarians, annual booksale or Better World Books. For five years, organized the annual booksale, coordinating dozens of volunteers and thousands of books.

• Technical support for Outreach Librarians: Provided technical assistance to Outreach librarians on the use of YBP’s Gobi interface, and managing EBSCO’s interface for serials.

Research Assistant for the American Democracy Project, and Visiting Lecturer of Political Science and International Studies. State University of New York at Brockport, Brockport, NY, June 2004 – December 2005

• Course taught: Women in Western Political Thought.

Visiting Lecturer of Philosophy. State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY, January 1994 – May 2003.

• Courses taught: Introduction to Logic, Modal Logic, Western Humanities I, Western
  Humanities II, Metaphysics and Movies.