RESUME

WORK EXPERIENCE

City of Eugene, Eugene Public Library, 100 W 10th Ave, Eugene OR 97401
2-85 through 6-30-2003, Library Clerk to Librarian III.
Head of Technical Services area, supervising Cataloging, Acquisitions and Mending/Processing Sections.
*Managerial responsibilities include: working closely with Library managers to plan, to formulate policies, to implement plans and situational responses, and to monitor production; continuous writing and revision of procedures; daily supervision and training of staff (7.5 full-time equivalents, unionized) plus community volunteers; monitoring supplies ordering and some maintenance contracts; extensive committee participation in-Library (Safety, Computer Team, Publications, Space Utilization, New Building Planning, etc.) and City-wide (Safety, Career Development); and preparation of job descriptions for both exempt and classified classification studies.
*Supervises cataloging operations using fully integrated automation packages (ULISYS, Polaris) in performance of: on-going database maintenance (bibliographic record changes, subject, name & series authority file maintenance, discards, etc.); cataloging 20,000+ new titles/year; and mending 20,000+ items/year.
*Original cataloging: book, serial, sound recording, audiovisual formats; government documents; foreign language materials. OCLC, Dewey classification and LC subjects.
*Special projects: Developing authority file procedures and policies (esp. series); cataloging serials collection and devising circulation mechanisms; supervising shared database cataloging project with 5 other county municipalities (ca. 4 project employees over 4 years) (this project terminated after about 8 years, because of ILS change at Eugene); and integration of County Bookmobile holdings into City collection (18,000 titles in 10 months, without adversely affecting regular workflow). *Coordinating massive collection changes for move to new building, including changes of all item information, move to radio-frequency-ID security and TechLogic materials movement system. Re-labeling of almost the entire collection was required by re-organization; parts are complete, parts on-going. *Coordinating automation of acquisitions activities -- implementing ILS acquisitions system, importing on-order bib records from vendors, etc. *Planning, coordinating and performing database maintenance tasks: item information corrections, holdings deletions, authority maintenance, etc. Item information corrections workload was very extensive due to collection changes.

11-77 to 2-85
Non-library positions, City of Eugene.

New Mexico State University, Library, Las Cruces NM 88001
7-76 top 6-77, Assistant Catalog Librarian.

Linn-Benton Community College, Learning Resource Center, Albany OR 97321
2-76 to 6-76, Media Cataloging Technician.

University of Hawaii, Hamilton Library, Honolulu HI 96822
9-74 to 5-75, Work-Study, Graduate school year.
Reference desk duty 6 hrs/week, including independent (unsupervised) Saturday mornings.

Southern Oregon State College, Library, Ashland OR 97520
9-70 to 5-74, Clerk III (Library Assistant).

Oregon State University, Kerr Library, Corvallis OR 97331
1-67 to 6-68, Student page.

EDUCATION

Oregon State University, Corvallis OR 97331
BA 1970, Russian language.

University of Hawaii, Graduate School of Library Studies, Honolulu HI 96822
MLS 1975. Volunteer project at Bishop Museum Library.
Continuing education:
Southern Oregon State College -- 2 years French
New Mexico State University -- 1 year German
City of Eugene -- Management training: managing change, ADA (disabilities act) orientation, sexual harrassment, multicultural awareness, diversified workforce planning, ergonomics, performance management, time management, (numerous) meeting skills, stress management, substance awareness for supervisors, etc. Oregon LA and PNLA conference programs on various subjects. Numerous safety topic classes and trainings. Continuous review of current cataloging practice (i.e. seminars in '89 on AACR2 1988 revisions, LC subject practice); continuous review of OCLC practice (i.e. OCLC quality control workshops '88, '94, EPIC training '90).

OTHER

Membership in historical, educational organization for 25+ years. Experience gained: Programming experience: organizing and supervising multi-activity meetings for groups from 20 to 1000. Desktop publishing experience: 5 years editing, publishing and writing for an internationally distributed arts and sciences magazine; 2 1/2 years editing/publishing Northwest regional monthly newsletter, 40 p, 1000 c./month. Research and practical skills in History and Archaeology, esp. Medieval and Norse; Textile Crafts and Costume History; Calligraphy, Food History, other arts/crafts.
Additional interests: Science fiction, organic gardening, woodworking.

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