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Lynnwood, Washington, United States

Making a welcoming and collaborative library environment for all.Supervising full and part-time Public Services staff.Implementing and updating library policies and procedures. Streamlining workflows and maintaining good knowledge management practices. Overseeing all circulation desk operations.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Motivated supervisor with demonstrated experience adapting to the constantly changing realities facing academic libraries.
• Law Textbook Course Reserve and Scanning Services Operator.
• Working in Canvas course sites to create course content, send announcements, and link to relevant library resources.
• Legal database liaison with Westlaw, Lexis, and Bloomberg to distribute registration codes and troubleshoot account issues.
• Providing in-person and electrotonic legal reference services to the UW community and to the public.
• Set and document department policies and goals regarding circulation and Information Desk operations.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Hired and interviewed for student and staff positions.
• Trained, supervised, and evaluated Student Employees, Librarianship Interns, Circulation Supervisors, and Library technicians.
• Set goals and objectives for student employees and for the Information Desk.
• Staffed the Reference Desk and helped users with legal research questions.
• Resolved issues such as fines and fees, damaged items, and users with challenging issues.
• Supervised Resource Sharing operations, including the development of new Interlibrary Loan policies and procedures.

Seattle, Washington

• Learned how to conduct in-depth legal research and operate the Reference Desk.
• Answered reference questions and conducted consolations with library users.
• Assisted with faculty research projects.
• Updated and edited library research guides (LibGuides) to promote library collections, services, and events.
• Managed legal database account operations: registration code distribution to users, account troubleshooting, and vendor audits.
• Coordinated with vendors to obtain registration codes, and assisted with user account issues, and database training sessions for the law library.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Hired, interviewed, and trained students on circulation and library operations.
• Managing the Circulation Desk.
• Delegated tasks to student employees.
• Provided excellent customer service to all law students, faculty, staff, and public users.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Welcomed and served library users.
• Archived private professor and alumni records.
• Assisted users with registration and log-in issues.
• Shelved and organized books.
• Retrieved, distributed, and collected books from law students and professors.
• Processed and withdrew boxes of books to have them ready for a deadline shipment.

Seattle, Washington

• Performed legal research involving women's rights and created legal memos.
• Organized case files digitally.
• Developed an understanding of how the 9th circuit court operates.

Renton, Washington, United States

• Organized and filed confidential employment documents into personal files.
• Entered employee data into the HRIS Kronos system.
• Created employee new hire packets.
• Processed new hire and terminated personnel records.
• Archived personnel files.
• Organized and renamed electronic files.

University Of Washington

• Kept the communication between the patient and doctor consistent
• Taught the doctor specific signs to use in the lab research
• Reviewed classified videos of patients and take notes
• Helped with community awareness and community feedback projects

Master Of Library & Information Science - Mlis

Paralegal Certificate, Legal Professions And Studies

Bachelor’S Degree, Political Science: International Security

Activities and Societies: • Delta Zeta Sorority, Kappa Chapter: Member 2012-2016 • UW Women’s Water Polo Team: Member 2012-2015 • UW.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: • V.P. of American Sign Language Club (2015-2016) • Honor Society (2013-2016) • Water Polo (2013-2016) •.