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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Responsible for the design, development and implementation of ADA Commons, the ADAs institutional repository, providing leadership and guidance to state and local societies in migrating publishing and archiving functions to ADA Commons. Contributes to the development and delivery of education and training in all aspects of ADA Commons and related scholarly communications programs and services to the ADA tripartite, including promoting new forms of scholarly publishing, communicating issues impacting the changing scholarly publishing landscape, and providing support for ADA Commons digital publishing platform.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Manage the intellectual assets and information architecture for GG+A, a global consulting firm providing fundraising counsel to nonprofit organizations. • Develop and implement the capture, organization, retention and accessibility of the firm’s KR, both born-digital and print materials, within SharePoint• Fulfilling Data Expert role, assist with the migration of SharePoint Classic to Modern, ensuring the end usability of the product based on user interviews and testing; develop and run ongoing staff training on SharePoint• Develop and evaluate departmental taxonomies, Sharepoint metadata schema, document management and governance policies• Respond to reference requests from consultants and other staff using internal and external resources; provide results in a variety of formats from bibliographies to lit reviews• Perform technology evaluation, including usability concept testing and analytics to develop roadmaps and visioning for solution specifications; implement design goals in a team setting• Maintain industry awareness and foster a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration while working cross-functionally in the support of client deliverables

Directed Information Center and Archives serving research, animal care, guest services, volunteers, and learners of all ages. • Managed circulation, collection development, interlibrary loan, budget, online resources, intranet, training, institutional repository, and grant opportunities. • Created an institutional repository of Shedd publications, a bibliometrics tracking methodology, and built Shedd’s historical archive. • Implemented online database access, Springshare libguides, archival research program and fact checking procedures for exhibit content. • Trained staff and students on library use, searching, copyright law, literature reviews, scientific reading, content evaluation, naming guidelines and organizational hierarchies. • Led enterprise-level projects in digital asset management, intranet solutions, management training, and exhibit content digital feed.

Scheduled, trained and supervised 180 volunteers for multiple departments / Increased volunteer corps by 42% / Created new volunteer education programs and recognition strategies / Conducted bi-annual volunteer satisfaction surveys and planned recognition events / Expanded volunteer-led education activities both on- and off-site by 300%

Masters Of Library And Information Science

Ba, English, French, Earth Science