Responsibilities of this position include both administrative and direct patron services. The focus of this position is on borrower services, collection development, personnel management, community engagement, library programming, data analysis and volunteer coordination.

• Successfully applied for a Library Services and Technology Act grant for Reader’s Advisory (2011-2012)• Participant in 2011 New England Library Leadership Symposium (NELLS).• Leading the renovation of the reference room• Provide instruction on databases and other library resources• Responsible for Reference Department services, staffing and collection (print and online) management• Manage materials and supplies budgets, manage database selection and delivery• Contribute to Forbes Library Facebook page, instigated and collaborated moving Staff Picks to blog format• Serve on library- and community-wide committees (Strategic Planning, On the Same Page)• Manage public internet computers• Administer and supervise Smith College work study students

• Led interdepartmental Web Team to redevelop website• Collaborated with other library staff to fulfill a library-wide strategic plan objective to create an e-newsletter (BPL Wired http://www.batavia.lib.il.us/enewsletter), produced monthly e-newsletter, and managed e-newsletter subscription database• Provided reference and readers advisory service at the reference desk, by email, telephone and virtual reference (AskAway), using appropriate print and online resources• Responsible for collection development and management including selection, weeding and ordering for science and technology areas of nonfiction, and selection for fiction• Taught formal classes for Library Catalog and Reference Databases• Facilitated book discussions• Created book displays, reading lists and monthly ‘Good Reads’ reviews

• Liaison to of Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Studies, Physics, and Combined Sciences departments• Developed and provided instruction for the Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science and Physics departments• Co-taught “Use of Chemistry Literature,” a required course for chemistry majors• Participated in the instruction program for English and orientation technology training• Provided general reference/research assistance in all subject areas, specializing in the sciences• Developed print and electronic collections for biology, chemistry, environmental studies, physics, and combined sciences• Served on library (Web Services Team, Academic Services and Resources Committee) and university committees (Staff Affairs Committee, Free Speech Subcommittee)

• Managed Access Services, including circulation, stack management, reference, outreach, instruction and database searching• Provided onsite and remote reference services to an international community of undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers and faculty• Using Camtasia and SMIL, created tutorials for using SPIRES-HEP databases• Provided public outreach (customized library services talks, promotional materials, Library Open House)• Developed and maintained selected subject-focused web resource pages• Managed HEP Names database (worldwide directory of people associated with high-energy physics) – designed interface for viewing data and data maintenance• Supervised and trained circulation assistants

• Provided reference assistance to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and outside users• Assisted in the planning, development and delivery of patron and staff instruction including: program to train circulation staff to provide basic reference services, bibliographic instruction for patrons, and student staff training program• Census and GIS specialist• Developed web pages, pathfinders, and staff service and procedure manuals• Participated in development of Circulation Team