Kathleen Bauer Email & Phone Number

Hamden, Ct, Us

Hamden, Connecticut, United States

Oversee a $3 million library budget. Help staff to thrive in a fast-paced and technology rich environment. Foster open communication and transparency about the collection and collection budget. Deploy analytics in decision-making about the collection and the budget. Collaborate with librarians throughout Connecticut to improve collections and services state-wide.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Oversaw the modernization of software and services in the library, overhauling all processes. Improved and promoted the digitization service, increasing use by 150% and making the collection more accessible. Improved the collection by adding more diverse authors and formats. Reduced duplication and waste in the collection. Strengthened Trinity's position in and collaboration with library consortia. Created a one-stop service point at the library through the creation of a library/IT help desk.

Updated all aspects of the Trinity collection, adding major digital collections and aligning spending with patron needs. Implemented Alma library management system.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Managed staff, budget and collection during search for a new director.Made major investments in projects to preserve threatened collections.Upgraded a dated security system. Identified compelling collections, important to both Trinity and Hartford history, for digitization projects.

Yale University Library

Managed professional staff who develop and maintained interfaces for digital library initiatives, library search, web sites and library subject guides.Advised the library on best practices for usability, accessibility and content architecture. Raised the visibility of the work of the Yale Library IT department through a communication plan emphasizing Yammer, Twitter, and a WordPress blog. See http://libraryitnews.commons.yale.edu/Moved all library web pages to a centrally supported Drupal management system, saving the library the cost of separate web servers and management software.Created web interfaces to effectively highlight library collections and services, ensuring that effort aligns with library priorities. Examples: pages highlighting the Personal Librarian program http://web.library.yale.edu/pl and pages highlighting digital collections http://web.library.yale.edu/digital-collectionsDeployd Google Analytics as a tool to determine web development priorities, thereby aligning the library’s web strategy with user behavior and needs.Lea strategic overhaul of library’s subject guides and the integration with the course management system, doubling use of guides. See http://guides.library.yale.eduOversaw interface development and testing for a Blacklight discovery system which combines records from two different library catalogs and the Summon article search service. See http://search.library.yale.edu

Plan and manage user research program, including usability testing, log file transaction analysis and usage statistics evaluation for evidence-based decision making. Oversee reviews and improvements to major Library web services.Train and organize librarians and support staff in carrying out usability tests. Implement new software in support of user research, including Survey Monkey, WebTrends, and Morae. Work with appropriate University-wide groups to evaluate faculty and student needs in the digital era, including the creation and analysis of the 2006 Cyberinfrastructure Survey and the 2007 faculty focus groups. Effort led to several initiatives for improving faculty services.

*Led openURL implementation (using SFX) for vendor-supplied databases and Google Scholar, thereby creating enhanced integrated access to electronic resources.*Created in-house staff training, customized to the level of staff, to support openURL implementation and RefWorks.*Chair the Public Interfaces Committee; the Library-wide committee charged with evaluating and making changes to the Library's Web site, Orbis, SFX and Metalib. *Analyzed new products and produced evaluative comparisons in support of collection development (specifically leading to the purchase of Scopus at Yale).

*Created a library for the Yale School of Nursing. *Marketed library services to a school previously unconnected to the Yale library system and saw a 25% increase in use of services over 2 years. *Integrated library instruction into nursing curriculum. Supervised student workers.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics

Information Science, Mls

Emphasized digital aspects of library science, for example database design.

Ms, Applied Mathematics

Studies mathematics, concentrating on statistics and operations research.