Amanda Grundmann Email & Phone Number

United States

Mountain View, CA

Mountain View, CA

Analyze and resolve requests and problems regarding the ebrary and EBL ebook platforms and related technical issues for external and internal customers.

Santa Barbara, California Area

Troubleshoot issues with outgoing interlibrary loan requests by verifying citations, answering conditional messages from lenders, locating potential lenders and corresponding with patrons to clarify requests.Answer patron queries via telephone, email, and at departmental and library-wide information desks.

Assisted public library patrons with basic computing and Internet tasks. Did troubleshooting of computer problems in technology center.

Tutored an adult with low literacy skills in reading and writing. Planned lessons for twice weekly one-on-one instruction.

Prepared artifacts for packing and moving, handled and packed objects according to accepted museum best practices, tracked object locations in spreadsheets and database.Basic supervision of collections volunteers assisting in preparations for move.

Catalogued over 200 oversized documents in Mimsy museum collection management system.Researched and implemented proper preservation housing procedures for photoreproduction formats.Collaborated with colleagues to provide access to the museum's multi-format lecture series collection.

Scheduled, prepared and taught 29 library instruction sessions for the English 1B freshman composition course.Researched and selected new titles to add to English and Foreign Languages collection.Researched and compiled recent literature on librarian work/life issues

Processed 2 archival collections, wrote finding aids, and encoded for web publishing using EAD.Designed and set up exhibits to display items in collection.Digitized images and created metadata for digitized images.Supervised reading room and provided basic reference to Special Collections patrons.

Managed and Responded to requests from other institutions for loan of UCSB Library materials.Supervised 2-3 student assistants per academic term.

Mlis, Library And Information Science

Activities and Societies: ALA Student Chapter Treasurer, January-December 2009 Selected Coursework: Issues in Academic Libraries Reference.

Ma, Anthropology, Archaeology

Jacob K. Javits Fellow UCSB Chancellor's Fellow

Ba, Anthropology, Archaeology

Summa cum laude in Archaeology Merrill Presidential Scholar, 2001