Alison Griffin Email & Phone Number

North Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Burnaby, Bc

- Licensing Coordinator for many of COPPUL's journals, subscriptions, databases and ebook packages. - Continued collection analysis work with SPAN project as well.

Burnaby, Bc

- Provided detailed collection analysis of proposed print archiving journal titles including assigning of archive holder and supporter libraries.

Burnaby, Bc, Canada

• Provide reference services at the main Burnaby campus, across all disciplines. • Teach library instruction classes to undergraduate students• Work with Health Science faculty to determine copyright status of publications for deposit into Summit, SFU's Institutional Repository, as part of a scholarly communication project for the library.• Work with the Research Commons to update policy regulations for Theses guidelines.• Update Education's Subject Guide using Drupal web editing software.

• Company representative to academic libraries in Western Canada and US Pacific Coast, assisting librarians with the services Coutts offers as a comprehensive library vendor. Responsibilities include:• Facilitate monograph collection development between vendor and Library. This includes assisting with profile review of approval plans, providing retrospective collection analysis, forecasting approval spending for libraries, returns analysis, and profile building to capture most appropriate materials.• Teach and train librarians how to use Coutts’ web interface, OASIS, to manage approval output and firm ordering. Involves planning, organizing and implementing training sessions for various user groups at differing skill levels.• Provide training and information with regards to e-book ordering and access using our aggregator platform, MyiLibrary. This area is always changing due to new technologies and requires constant updating and training to stay current.• Recommend workflow improvements to increase customer efficiency. This involves evaluating libraries’ ordering workflow, learning ILS acquisitions modules, troubleshooting issues and brainstorming unique solutions for individual libraries as needed. • Participate in internal budget planning, and manage budget to reach annual sales goals for a territory of over 80 active library accounts in my territory.• Project manage specific projects such as Opening Day Collection or transition to Coutts from a previous vendor. This involves tracking various internal and external departments to keep communication open and project moving forward.

• Responsible for contacting individual instructors and assisting them in selecting textbooks for their classes. This involved learning 14 different subject areas of titles Thomson published in the Social Sciences and ESL. • Also worked closely with Thomson’s editorial team to put potential authors and editors in touch with each other via manuscript reports and reviewer contacts. • Worked with Marketing to provide accurate product information for major presentations to faculty and presentations at conferences.

Mlis, Library Science

Ba, English, History