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Arlington, Va, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Continuously serving the public as a pet sitter with the companies, Rover.com.Independently manage my weekly, monthly and annual schedules for sitting requests, home visits, walks, miscellaneous services, supply needs, and accounting.Research market trends for best profits to be attained, while networking extensively throughout the Charleston region to establish continuing clients for business and referrals.Create marketing materials for self-promotion, including a 20% discount coupon, business cards, posters, fliers, and more as needed.Currently in possession of 12 regular clients, who may contact me directly for sitting needs, including immediate and last-minute requests.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Serving as the circulation and information areas’ point of contact, initiating research questions and solving patrons’ concerns.From August-October 2019, served as a substitute reference librarian while a permanent candidate was being selected. During this time, became first point of contact for research questions, products development, technical support, and book request processing.Provide reference services to student, faculty, and individual researchers or groups, using ready reference and available platforms to patron needs, and methods of retrieval. This is done in person, over the telephone, or by written requests. Locates with patron materials found within the Daniel Library’s physical, or available databases via standard search procedures. Provide in-person, telephone reference service, and on-line reference service by searching available databases for stable information to use, such as EBSCO searching results, Daniel Library-purchased database access such as Academic Search Premier, and LibGuides created by Daniel Library staff. Designed, created, and maintain two LibGuides on the Daniel Library’s website, entitled “Women’s Studies” and “Coeducation at The Citadel”. Both guides offer researchers introductory access to available sources, primary and secondary source information, history, and contact for further reference. Designed eight multi-tiered displays that provide Daniel Library’s patrons immediate access to materials on current and cultural events, such as National Poetry Month, Native American Heritage Month, Women’s History Month, and woman suffrage.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Overseeing research into woman suffrage within Virginia, African American women voting trends, and Maggie L. Walker’s suffrage impact.Independently and under minimal supervision traveled to 30 sites within Richmond, Virginia and surrounding areas to research African American woman suffrage rights. Used on-site and online research guides to determine best channels to review documentation relating to desired themes and outcomes. Completely and successfully answered over 70% of the research questions posed by the Maggie L. Walker National Park Service site at the beginning of my internship. Questions concerned themes, notable figures, and events related to the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment and woman suffrage, as well as Virginia’s race relations and political affiliations. Delivered two presentations regarding my research: a 15-minute project overview and 35-minute results presentation. Both were accompanied by power point slides for viewing.Arranged all research results, sources, and leads into a 30-page annotated bibliography, which will be used by the Maggie L. Walker Site to develop further research questions and directives.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Served the public's retail books, toys, and entertainment needs throughout the 2017 holiday season and beyond.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Began a career in library service via customer service and front desk management at the James Island branch of the Charleston County library system. Created lists of school summertime reading lists for Charleston County libraries for students to access while in the library. Maintained front desk area, including but not limited to item returns and checkouts, holds, and summer reading prize awarding for studentsPrepared lists of recommended children’s materials in Charleston County libraries on the following topics: manners, potty training, and back-to-school. Researched options for items such as telescopes, ESL materials and story-time kits.Researched books, movies, story-time kits, book club kits, and other items to suggest for patrons as needed via online and in-person searching tools.Received and notated payments for patron accounts, including money management during select shifts and fine clearances on accounts.Complete complex requests from patrons including reservations, deadlines, account delinquencies, and other issues as needed. Shelf shifted and determined appropriate bibliographic features for new books.

Charleston, Sc

Established, built, organized, developed, and maintained an entire branch of the non-profit Soldiers’ Angels in its first year of operation. Established, developed, and maintained the South Carolina division of military nonprofit Soldiers’ Angels. Recruited a volunteer team, delegating tasks to them as needed.Created entire training documentation for all aspects of the program, including patient visits, food pantry organization, sponsorship presentations, and more as needed.Personally secured $10,000 in donations within 12 months to benefit Soldiers’ Angels cause.Established a veteran mobile food pantry event that served, under my direct supervision, over 1,000 veteran households with donated food totaling over 25,000 pounds. Located monthly a minimum of 25 contacts within religious, educational, political, civic, nonprofit, and business sectors to discover potential interested donors and volunteers for Soldiers’ Angels.Attended networking events within Charleston to discover potential opportunities for Soldiers’ Angels-Presented in front of audiences ranging from 5-100 members about Soldiers’ Angels’ mission and opportunities to serve the cause. Initiated and managed databases of donor history, inventory history, volunteer schedules, event calendar, speaking engagements, and program goals in an efficient and successful manner.

Kanuma, Tochigi, Japan

Represented myself, South Carolina, and The United States as a member of the JET Program by working as a Japanese Ministry of Education employee instructing three junior high schools totaling 1,000 students in native English grammar and mechanics. Created games, projects, worksheets, charts, and cultural presentations to instruct students in the mechanics of the English language, and the different aspects of American culture. Interviewed 25 Junior High School Students (out of 250) to determine the students qualified to visit the United States on a cultural exchange.

Master'S Degree, Library And Information Science, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Online student representative for the University of South Carolina LISSA branchMy coursework covers two.

Double Honors Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Honors CollegeFocusing on comparative politics of Europe and Japan. Completed senior thesis entitled "My Time.

Honors International Exhange Study Credit, Politics, Honors

Courses completed covering: American-European Security Cooperation since 1945 Japan's International Relations Eastern European Politics.