Served as a Substitute Proctor for a librarian on maternity leave.I kept a watch over students taking exams online.Software: RegisterBlast, Respondus' LockDown

Duties include:--Working as the U.S. documents and maps specialist.--Oversee the Maps Collection which includes processing the maps and do copy cataloging.--Work an average of 14 hours a week on the department’s public service desk. --Oversee the department’s website and Facebook page.

Duties included: The daily administrative running of the department and provide documents reference service to patrons. Supervised three to five student workers per quarter. Performed reference service at the library’s Reference Desk.Kept the reference librarians informed to changes in the depository system. Attended government documents related conferences and workshops for the library.. Taught workshops on government documents sources and give tours of the collection for the programs upon faculty request. Maintained the department’s website which served as a government information portal to Federal, state and international resources. Highlights of the website included the Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789 – 1909, the Digital Maps Archives, and a webpage dedicated to hot topics of interest to library patrons. GovDocs/Maps website: http://govdocs.evergreen.edu/ (website no longer exists as of July 1, 2011)July 2009 – July 2010Third Floor Information Desk SupervisorThe Evergreen State CollegeDaniel J. Evans LibraryThis responsibility was in addition to my regular duties as Head of Government Documents/Maps.The Information Desk helped patrons:Find titles in the Main Stacks, Government Documents/Maps, Microforms and Periodicals collectionsTaught patrons how to use the microforms readers Provided troubleshooting assistance for the network printer.Supervised and trained seven student workers and one paraprofessional.

Taught government documents for the college's Library Technician Program (now called Library & Information Services) as both an on-site and online class.Students learned how the U.S. government is organized, the Superintendent of Documents classification system, how to read a government document record on OCLC, how to find and use titles published by the government including reference assignments where they searched for answers to specific questions using assigned publications. At the end of the quarter, instead of a final exam, the students did an oral presentation of a Federal government department or independent agency of their choice which detailed the history of the department/agency, functions of three agencies within the department, mission statements, principal publications of the department/agency, and regional offices located in the student's home state.

The department, Government & Business Information Services (now Government Information Services), with its own public services desk, consisted of the Federal Documents Regional Depository, the State of Mississippi Documents Depository, and the Business Reference collection. Duties included but were not limited to: Reference Desk Services: Worked 14 hours per week at the GBIS Desk providing reference services to patrons using paper, fiche, and electronic services including the Internet. Stacks Supervisor/Maintenance: Coordinated stacks control and maintenance over the departmental collection and made sure the stacks are accessible to the patron. Student Supervisor: Supervised 12 - 16 student workers per semester, hired student workers, arranged student schedule, calculated the student payroll, and made assignments to student workers as needed.Needs & Offers Supervisor: One of the responsibilities of the Regional depository of federal documents includes the addition and discarding of Federal document titles. The Regional depository oversees maintenance of the selective depositories in the state. Selective depositories are only obligated to maintain the current five years of documents in their collection. Once the fifth year arrives; the selectives send a list of titles that need to be discarded to the Needs & Offers Supervisor at the regional depository. The supervisor goes over the list and checks the collection to see if there are any gaps in the collection. Once the supervisor has perused the list, the supervisor requests the selective what titles are needed from the list. This is the Federal documents depositories’ version of collection development.Website Manager:Also maintained and coded the department’s web page (http://www.olemiss.edu/govinfo/) and did troubleshooting of computer terminals and printers in the department.

Reference Services at LSU is a merged Reference department, which includes Government Documents reference and regular Reference. The LSU Libraries is also a United Nations depository and a Patent & Trademarks depository.Duties included: Worked at the Reference Desk helping patrons find materials using regular reference and government documents resourcesWorked the Information Desk where I helped provide patrons directional, library, and campus information and also linking unlinked government focuments into the NOTIS systemPerformed technical processing for the department which included the check-in of materials into the department, updating the item records by placing the appropriate temporary location codes and issue dates found in the index tables or any other special locations in the departmentCollected reference titles that needed to be sent for bindingMade claim requests of missing reference titlesTransferred, traced and withdrew materials in or out of the departmentProvided support for the Library Instruction Workgroup and the Reference Desk/Information Desk Workgroup, and handling any other requests made by the librarians.

This temporary one-year position began my professional career in libraries.The Instructional Materials Center (now Education Resources) was the area of the library that provided materials for future teachers and provided support to the curriculum of the College of Education. Materials in the collection included elementary and secondary level titles, kits, videos, etc. used for the teaching of classes. Duties included:Supervised and trained ten student workers and maintained their work schedule.Supervised the maintenance of the collection.Helped patrons find materials located in the collection.Performed circulation duties at the department’s own circulation desk. Any other duties as assigned by the head of the department.

Began working at the Craft Center as a clerk typist and by the end of my tenure ascended to the position of Assistant Craft Center Manager. The LSU Union Craft Center was part of the Leisure Classes Program offered by the LSU Union. The Craft Center included a frame shop, sign shop, craft classes, and the LSU Union Art Gallery.Duties included:As Assistant Craft Center Manager, supervised five student workers and coordinated the daily routine of the Craft Center. As the Craft Classes Coordinator, coordinated the reservation of rooms for the craft classes a year in advance, helped proofread the craft classes brochure for the Leisure Classes Program, served as liaison to the craft classes instructors and helped fulfill any requests for their classes, helped organize class agendas, supply lists, and registered customers for craft classes. As Gallery Exhibit Assistant for the LSU Union Art Gallery, duties involved the coordination of the installation for art exhibitions, typing up press releases, organizing mailing lists, proofreading and art gallery brochures.

Began working as a delivery driver and later ascended to the position of Assistant Manager.Duties included:Making the pizza dough for the following business day.Took pizza orders from customers.Made the pizza.Checked in and out the drivers’ money bags.Performed closing procedures at the end of the business day.Counted the day’s profits at the end of the day.

Served as the interim Spanish teacher for grades 9th - 12th grades.

Duties included:Assisting patrons in finding materials.Performed circulation services. Clerical work for the area.