David Vess Email & Phone Number

Harrisonburg, VA, US

Harrisonburg, Virginia

Harrisonburg, Virginia

I start on Halloween but I couldn't resist updating my info.Here's what I aspire to do for JMU Libraries & Educational Technologies (L&ET):The Digital User Experience Librarian will provide leadership in understanding users' technology needs and coordination in enhancing user experiences.* Provide leadership in user research related to web services and.

Responsibilities included: provided direction and support for a team of librarians and research programmers working on a grant funded project sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) which leveraged and enhanced the locally developed (UIUC Library) Easy Search metasearch family of technologies; engaged in research about user.

Responsibilities: developed an initial plan for integrating the popular book sharing site, LibraryThing into library catalog for the Undergraduate Library’s popular fiction collection; supported and extended existing efforts of the University Library in the virtual world, Second Life; observed and applied University graphic standards and identity for the.

Responsibilities: reorganized department’s online resources to better support over fifty selectors in their collection development & fund management duties by examining the departmental charge and assessing constituent need; though liaison work with campus technologies organization (Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services), piloted a wiki.

Responsibilities: conducted collection development of web materials in an open and exploratory manner to establish a basis for new collection development model; developed list of groups that maintain web resources and conducted weekly web crawls of those resources; maintained a weekly log of all work conducted; explored preservation aspects of digital.

Responsibilities: provided in-depth and ready reference services to students, faculty, staff, and the general public at reference desk via online chat, instant text messaging, telephone, email, and face-to-face contact; used a wide range of online and print reference tools covering general, humanities, and social sciences; corrected problem citations for.

Responsibilities: though interview of stakeholders, redesigned the site architecture, designed and tested a staff development and training website for diverse group of users that included: library faculty, staff and student worker population; researched library literature and similar library staff training initiatives; gathered and presented diverse.

Responsibilities: managed art object database; managed preparations for migration to new collection management software; organized digital images of art work for loading into new database; maintained and improved printed artist and object files; extensively used library archives and government documents for provenance research; general art handling.

Responsibilities: managed library during evenings; directed student employees on various projects as needed; provided reference and circulation services to diverse body of students, faculty, staff and general public; taught Information Literacy courses on library catalog and a variety of article databases; provided class instruction on Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities: assisted in the management of negative, slide and photograph archives; cataloged photographic materials including: objects, events; building documentation and construction projects; managed circulating slide library and circulating photo materials; created, updated and migrated negative database records; developed electronic cataloging.

Responsibilities: assisted staff and public with photographic archives; communicated with various museum staff concerning photographic and cataloging and publication projects; organized, cataloged, labeled and filed various photographic materials; corresponded with national and international clientele concerning image reproduction contracts.

Responsibilities: assisted faculty and students with slide collection; maintained a collection of over 250,000 slides; conducted collection development and expansion; worked directly with faculty to support their instructional and research needs; applied Visual Resource Associations standards for cataloging and care of collection; supervised two student.

Responsibilities: assisted a large number of faculty and students with slide collection holding over 600,000 images; expanded and maintained collection; applied Visual Resource Associations standards for cataloging and care of collection; worked directly with faculty to support their instructional and research needs; use of Macintosh versions of Microsoft.

Education record

Bachelor Of Arts, History Of Art

Associate Of General Studies, General Studies