Jennifer Rodger Email & Phone Number

Aurora, Colorado, United States

Moorhead, Minnesota

• Supervised and managed branch staff, handling day to day management tasks, including creating schedules, giving evaluations, submitting timesheets, hiring new staff, collecting statistics, writing reports, etc.;
• Trained staff on best practices, including reference, event planning, e-resources, circulation, customer service, outreach, readers’ advisory, displays, catalog skills, and library instruction;
• Along with library associates, developed, coordinated, and evaluated all ages programming, including storytimes, classes, events, and off-site outreach locations;
• Worked extensively with library e-resources such as Evergreen library catalog, digital collections like OverDrive, and online research databases;
• Acted as Librarian-in-charge in absence of the library director;
• Handled and resolved patron complaints as they arose;

Cheyenne, Wyoming Area

• Created and managed the 4 historic sections within the library’s collection, cataloging 2700 historic books as well as hundreds of sets of historic statutes and reporters from all 50 states;
• Reorganized and re-catalogued the library’s entire 21,000+ item collection to meet best practices within SirsiDynix using MARC standards;
• Provided reference and circulation services to Wyoming Judiciary, attorneys, and the public;
• Kept all patron statistics and created reports and charts as needed;
• Summarized Supreme Court opinions and added them to the court’s online database, blog, and attorney listserv;
• Revitalized and managed the VDX interlibrary loan system;

Greater Denver Area

• Worked with patrons to accomplish their research goals at the Research Center desk and during individual hour-long consultations;
• Researched extensively with hundreds of databases;
• Managed the Research Center patron surveys and statistics via SurveyMonkey;
• Created themed book displays both physically and digitally;
• Created and updated online research guides using LibGuides software;
• Worked with faculty to provide relevant research information to share with their students;

Cooperstown, New York

• Re-housed and accessioned almost 3,000 photographs and digitized roughly 400 photographs from the Gary Jarvis Minor League Ballparks Photograph Collection;
• Accessioned, processed, cataloged and created descriptive metadata for nearly 3,200 digital images documenting the 2010 major and minor league seasons;
• Worked with archiving and cataloging software including Millennium and Re:Discovery;
• Wrote and presented an artifact spotlight to the visitors of the museum;
• Assisted in various Hall of Fame events including Induction weekend, the Hall of Fame Classic weekend, and the All-Star Gala.

Greater Denver Area

• Re-housed, cataloged, and digitized negatives, photographs, born-digital images, 35 mm slides, lantern slides, scrapbooks and other ephemera;
• Wrote descriptive metadata for several collections;
• Researched and wrote a creator biography for the George Catlin portfolio collection;
• Worked extensively with Argus and Insight/Luna software.

Denver, CO

Processing, organizing, and cataloging negatives and photographs from the 1940s.

Master’S Degree, Library And Information Science

Activities and Societies: Society of American Archivists; the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists

Bachelor’S Degree, History

Activities and Societies: Graduated with honors from CREDO Honors Program; President and member of the Phi Alpha Theta history honor.