Benjamin Barba Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia

• Catalog music scores, books, and manuscripts.• Propose Library of Congress Subject Headings, Genre Form Terms, Medium of Performance Terms, and additions or changes to the Classification Schedule.• Serve as Administrator of the U.S. ISMN Agency.• Participate in the BIBFRAME Pilot Program.• Areas of interest/specialization: Film and TV music, unpublished scores, music published before 1800, batch cataloging using Excel and MarcEdit.

Irvine, Ca

• Maintain the Reference, Current Periodical, and Map Collections.• Assist in the hiring, training, and supervision of student workers.• Provide in-person and virtual reference assistance to a diverse community of users on a broad range of topics.• Teach library instruction sessions and provide one-on-one reference consultations for undergraduate writing students.• Create content for and maintain online research guides.• Facilitate weeding, transfer, and collection reshaping projects, including planning complex moves of large collections.• Work with government document collections and manage UCI’s Federal Depository Library Program Needs and Offers workflow.• Act as a liaison between the Reference Department and the Cataloging and Acquisitions Departments.

Irvine, Ca

• Created brief original bibliographic records for sound and video recordings held by the Arts Media Center, enabling users from across campus to view these materials in the libraries' online catalog.• Copy-cataloged selected sound recordings using the web-based OCLC Connexion client.

Whittier, Ca

• Provide reference assistance to a diverse community of users at the reference desk.• Teach library instruction sessions and research skills workshops.• Assist patrons with technical, computer, and printing issues.

Torrance, Ca

• Maintained Music Library operations while the Music Librarian was on sabbatical.• Provided reference assistance to a diverse community of users at the Schauerman Library Reference Desk.• Assisted patrons with technical, computer, and printing issues.• Cataloged sound recordings and re-classified selected musical scores from the Dewey Decimal System to the Library of Congress Classification System.

Irvine, Ca

• Copied highly complex handwritten musical scores into Finale or Sibelius--from chamber works to large-scale orchestral works with parts--by set deadlines.

Newport Beach, Ca

• Provided reference services and assistance with computers, scanners, and printers.• Communicated and enforced library policies.• Circulated, shelved, and maintained library materials.• Made and issued school ID/library cards.• Created patron records in the library’s database and collected fines.

Irvine, Ca

• Identified, problem-solved, and corrected complex errors in the catalog.• Transferred and withdrew materials.• Maintained monographic and serial holdings.• Copy-cataloged selected materials.• Wrote departmental procedures for transferring materials to the remote storage facility.

Riverside, Ca

• Searched for and processed missing items.• Performed general stacks maintenance duties.• Hired, trained, and supervised student workers.

Riverside, Ca

• Taught weekly discussion sections for the courses, Introduction to Western Music and Music in Movies and TV.• Lectured, re-enforced major concepts, and lead class discussions.• Held office hours and worked individually with students.• Created and graded assignments and exams.• Maintained attendance and grade records for courses of 80-100 students.• Completed 13-hour Teaching Assistant Development Program, which included presentations, seminars, and workshops designed to provide a strong foundation for informed practice and teaching excellence.

Ms, Library And Information Science

Ma, Music Composition

Ba, Music