Library Services Specialist Iii
San Luis Obispo, California
I provide borrowing services at the Robert E. Kennedy Library at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly SLO). I order books and articles for our patrons from other libraries and process them when they arrive. I mostly use the ILLiad program to find books and articles along with library catalog and databases. A large part of my job is making sure copyright is payed for required documents and checking our own systems to see if we own an item before it is ordered. I also run statistics for the all Resource Sharing service at our university and answer questions from patrons.Over the past couple years my duties have grown to include training new staff and student workers, configuring Resource Sharing functions in Alma, and participating in consortia wide committees. I was asked to chair the Resource Sharing Functional Committee (RSFC) and serve on the Unified Library Management System (ULMS) Coordinating Committee where I work to create and modify Resource Sharing policies and procedures at the consortia level. The RSFC also holds online training sessions and answers staff questions through email, phone, and instant messaging.While in this position I have also volunteered with the Resource Sharing community of practice known as I-SPIE. I have helped plan several conferences at other CSU campuses and took the lead in planning the conference when Cal Poly SLO was the host (2017). I also created the new I-SPIE website and gathered statistics for the consortia.