Katherine (Katy) Smith, Phd Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Liaise with the School of Nursing, Research and Basic Sciences, and Centers and Institutes in the School of Medicine to provide premier library instruction, research consultation (including Systematic Reviews), and resource assistance to graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, administration, and staff.• Instruct face-to-face, hybrid, and online (Quality Matters certified) library instructional sessions and instructional research interactions (in-person and electronically).• DMPTool Administrator and Member of the Data Management Work Group, focusing on the 2023 NIH requirements for data management and data sharing.• Create audio/visual and web-based tutorials and educational guides.• Cooperatively develop the Medical Library Center collection.

Greater St. Louis Area

Professor, Fall 2015 to May 2018, Associate Professor Fall 2009-Spring 2015; Assistant Professor, Spring 2005-Spring 2008)• Teach face-to-face, hybrid, and online (Quality Matters certified) information literacy/library, education, and general education credit courses; library related “one-shot” sessions; and instructional research interactions (in-person and electronically). • Create audio/visual and web-based tutorials and educational guides, including the 2017 Meramec Innovation of the Year, The Virtual Tour of the Meramec Library. • Liaison with faculty, departments, and student support services to provide premier information literacy instruction and resources to students of varying knowledge, experience, and abilities, as well as to faculty, administration, and staff. • Cooperatively organized the periodicals and standing order budgets, guided district-wide library instruction assessment, oversaw collection development, and scheduled library courses and reference desk.• Recent campus and college district service includes: Meramec Curriculum Committee (Chair, Fall, 2015 to current), task force committees (re-engineering governance, 2014; minimum qualifications, 2016), Emerging Scholars (Chair, 2014-15), and College Academic Council (Chair, Fall 2011).

Webster Groves, Mo

• Effectively transitioned to and continue to improve virtual library services in response to Covid-19.• Administer library budgets; assisted with finalization of $300,000 library renovation.• Contract with new (Infobase, Springshare, St. Louis Regional Library Network, St. Louis County Library) and existing (MOREnet, EBSCOhost, Encyclopedia Britannica, and Gale) partners/providers.• Redesigned and continue to expand library website and online services.• Develop archival policies and procedures for special collections.• Order and catalog new resources.• Collaborate with St. Louis County Library to provide additional online resources.• Develop continuous improvement plans.• Thoroughly weeded and organized entire collection from boxes after the library renovation significantly reduced shelving. Over 5000 items were removed from the circulating and reference collections based upon use, currency, condition, duplication, completeness, and uniqueness. Project has now moved to the archives collection.• Developed and led the 2020-21 Faculty Book Discussion on Just Mercy, focusing on diversity, inclusivity, social justice, and anti-racism.• Service includes 2020-25 Strategic Plan team (Fall 2019), and Recorder for Department Chairs’ (2018- current).• Teach face-to-face and online information literacy sessions and instructional research interactions.• Create audio/visual and web-based tutorials and educational guides.• Liaison with faculty and staff to provide excellent information literacy instruction and resources to students of varying knowledge, experience, and abilities, as well as to faculty, administration, and staff.• Actively develop the collection; extensively weeded, updated, and organized print and digital collections

Greater St. Louis Area

Cliff Cave Branch, July 2004-April 2005; Mid-County Branch, July 2003-July 2004• Supervised and guided staff (evaluation, training, etc.) and coordinated branch budgets, collection development and maintenance, patron relations, adult/child programming, and facility maintenance. • Led staff through internal challenges including the migration to new collections software and the digital transition of sources, as well as through external challenges such as a suicide in the parking lot and a returning issue with a known pedophile in the children's department. • Chaired system-wide committee to create and present staff training relation to patron services and served on the initial ReadMOre committee, which hosted over 80 successful programs the first year SLCL participated.

Greater St. Louis Area

Grand Glaize Branch, April 2002-June 2003: Assisted branch manager with administration of library branch—including programming, employee scheduling and evaluation, collection development, and patron relations—provided database instruction as well as reference and circulation assistance.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Information Science And Learning Technologies, 4.0 Gpa

Master Of Arts - Ma, Information Science And Learning Technologies, 4.0 Gpa

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Dual Major: Historic Preservation And American Studies, 4.0 Gpa; Summa Cum Laude