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Greenville, South Carolina

Manages and evaluates overall workflow for university resource sharing activities, processing interlibrary loan requests, facilitating Scan & Deliver services, and institutional participation in statewide consortial PASCAL Delivers borrowing program. Responsible for the training, supervision and scheduling of student workers. Interacts with Furman faculty, students, and staff on a daily basis in a busy, patron-oriented department.Spearheaded a 2012 departmental reorganization based on considerations of user experience, workflow efficiency, and equipment upgrades. Over 2 1/2 years, policy and procedural changes have resulted in a 95% decrease in borrowing cancellations, and 197% increase in local fulfillment rates.

Greenville, South Carolina

Processed, cataloged, and distributed government documents received by the library. Maintained accurate records. Developed pertinent library displays on related topics. Assisted as needed in the reference services area by directing patrons and assisting with on-line bibliographic searches. Assisted as needed in other departments such as: Acquisitions, Serials, ILL, and Circulation.

Hughes Main Library, Greenville, South Carolina

Assisted patrons at circulation desk as team member in busy Access Services department. Shelved returns, handled route-ins from branch libraries, performed patron account and materials maintenance.

Royalton Memorial Library, South Royalton, Vermont

Responsible for overall administration of day to day operations including: staff, volunteers, budget, programming, reference, interlibrary loan, children's services, cataloging, grant writing, collection development, outreach, community public relations.- increased annual circulation by 113% over 8 years in village of 2300 residents.- increased annual town tax-payer funding by 80% over 8 years.- initiated annual fund drive, effectively doubling materials budget.- supervised closing and consolidation of branch library, assimilating in excess of 1000 items into main library collection.Implemented all facets of project management for the Gates Library Initiative public access computer grant, and a Freeman Foundation grant for library automation (a 3-year process).

Master'S Degree, Library And Information Science, 4.0

Master's E-portfolio chosen for institutional showcase. Selected for membership in Beta Phi Mu honorary.

Bachelor'S Degree, Music Education, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Mu Phi Epsilon; Kappa Delta Pi; Pi Kappa LambdaMajored in Voice with a minor in Pipe Organ / Keyboards