Kara Huggard Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Logan, Utah, United States

The Logan Library was the ideal place for me to begin my professional library career. Working at a midsize library allowed me to assume a significant amount of responsibility while working in many different roles including: collection development, budgeting, program planning and implementation, customer service, reference, and readers advisory..

Austin, Texas, United States

This was such a fun job managing a drop-in youth computer center at a branch library. I got to plan and conduct programs, teach computer and information literacy skills, and encourage reading and literacy through activities, bulletin boards and displays. Accomplishments I am most proud of:✔️Getting reluctant readers to try books I promoted✔️Planning.

I assisted with administrative duties related to the American Library Association (ALA) sponsored Spectrum Initiative Longitudinal Study. This was a retrospective study of the first recipients of the ALA Spectrum Scholarship which provides graduate funding to racially and ethnically diverse students. Accomplishments I am most proud of:✔️Taught myself.

I researched information for an article to be published in a legal review. Research sources included printed materials, electronic databases, and government documents.

Austin, Texas, United States

As a full-time technical writer from June 2000-June 2002 and a contract technical writer from October 2002-January 2003, I wrote and updated software documentation. Accomplishments I am most proud of: ✔️Wrote the first software manual for a new component of a technology product✔️Improved and simplified department quality process as a member of department.

Ms, Information Studies

MLS equivalent

Bs, English

Technical writing emphasis