Pam O'Hara Email & Phone Number

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Coach, mentor and develop department staff, including overseeing new employee onboarding and providing career development planning and opportunities.Assist the Executive Director with organizational administration and operations. Integrate with staff to orchestrate the major functions of the organization.Manage day-to-day issues and hold the organization's people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategies together.Board education and management.HR.

Rochester, Mn

Provide libraries with expert advice, consulting, and problem solving. Direct, develop, plan, execute and assess high quality learning opportunities for member library staff and internal staff, including continuing education, professional development, and training.

Rochester, Minnesota

Direct, develop, plan, execute and assess high quality learning engagement opportunities for member library staff, including continuing education and training.

Rochester, Minnesota

TeachingTrainingEducational VideosILS Help Desk

Rochester, Minnesota Area

-Reference for college and graduate students at Goddard Library-Instruction and Outreach -LibGuides-book displays-partnered with English Department for Shakespeare/Poetry week activities

Rochester, Minnesota Area

-hire, train, schedule supervise, and evaluate up to 35 pages (shelvers); update work manuals -train and supervise library volunteers -partner with several agencies training young people to enter the work force -serve as departmental instructor (research, develop, coordinate, and teach training sessions) -assist with wiki updates -serve as computer liaison (help staff with computer issues, test upgrades, etc.) -provide public service assistance in all areas of circulation. My most recent review praised my ability to make “authentic connections with both the public and staff”. -propose, plan and instruct classes open to the public (recent classes: Basic bookbinding; Pinterest; Doing More with GMail; Book Repair; Downloading audiobooks and ebooks) -serve/d on various committees, including Diversity, Continuous Improvement, and the successful transfer of circulation services from Children's to the Circulation division. -participate in assessment of programs, services and internal processes -3 hours/week mending out of print books (resident expert) in technical services -assisted with LibRadio at COBB radio, a weekly local radio show-assist with RPL Social Media -successfully proposed, planned, executed and evaluated a large Makerspace project that spanned over 2 months time. I trained staff, gathered and purchased materials and taught several crafts to the public, which culminated in completed blank books which patrons can check out of the library to hand write their own story. -keep current in technology by taking occasional, short courses and webinars offered through WebJunction and other sites -keep up with my profession by reading library literature in print and online -attended MILE 2013 as a committee member and program facilitator -attended the Library Technology Conference at Macalester in March 2012 -attended MILE (MLA Institute for Leadership Excellence), 2011-presented a Readers Advisory workshop at MLA conference, October 2010

Rochester, Minnesota Area

-assisted with summer reading program for teens-assisted in evaluating writing submissions for contests for teens-provided reference information and services for patrons at the Fiction, Movies and Music desk, and for patrons using IM, phone and email-did collection development, weeding, reviewing donated materials and adding books to the system, acquiring Interlibrary Loan books and materials through MNLink-assisted in writing read-alikes, topic lists, and hosting programming for young adults and adults-presented a Readers Advisory workshop at MLA conference, October 2010

Northfield, Mn

-hired, trained, supervised, and evaluated 12-15 student workers; updated work manuals-provided reference and research service for faculty and students-assisted faculty in collection development for current course materials-assisted faculty in developing digital content and access to their course materials using Moodle-set up reserves materials in the library and online for current courses-cataloged new materials (audio, visual, music scores and books)-collaborated with a St. Olaf music cataloger and the Head of TS at Carleton, to catalog print and audio materials located in the music department into Bridge, using OCLC and Millennium ILS (Innovative Interfaces, Inc. system). This included barcoding all materials in the Music department library, searching OCLC for copy cataloging, identifying items to send out for original cataloging, and doing authority control on records added to Bridge.-transferred music from one format to another (e.g. album to CD; CD to mp3);-edited, tracked, burned and archived CDs of each Carleton musical performance-maintained archive of Carleton Music Department materials-prepared monthly budget report-hosted a weekly radio show highlighting Carleton music performances

Memorial Library

-administrated the special collections and cared for rare books during a semester-long practicum in the rare book department, including curating exhibits, supervised by the Head Conservator of UW-Madison-worked part time for two years in the book conservation lab repairing library books, learning book triage, washing pages, resewing, rebacking, recasing, recovering-took a semester-long class in traditional Western book binding, from the Head Conservator of UW-Madison.-took classes through the art department at UW-Madison including Artists’ Books, Conservation of Art, and Drawing and Printing-engaged in freelance preservation and repair of books and hand binding of unique blank books

-administrated all library operations, as the only librarian on staff, on a limited budget and with limited time-provided reference and materials searches for patrons, making use of various sources including NLS (the local online library catalog), the card catalog, and astronomy librarians around the world-supervised student workers-annually selected and ordered all books, materials, and journals for the library-drew in users from other libraries to use the cutting edge math and science resources I acquired-cataloged all books, materials, and journals using OCLC and NOTIS, the local catalog-maintained archive of historical materials

-helped diverse adult students prepare for the GED in English and math-tutored high school learning-disabled students-substituted in high school foreign language classes-substituted in classes ranging from Kindergarten through adult basic ed., and the occasional odd-ball class like Auto Mechanics

Mendota Heights, Mn

-taught six levels of high school Latin in unfamiliar territory: a boys’ Catholic military school in which I was one of only five female non-Catholic teachers-developed new curricula for each class-taught units in Latin word roots, including medical terminology-served on various faculty committees-coordinated various field trips, including ones to the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library at St. John’s University, and to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to stimulate interest in Latin in works of art and the history and preservation of library materials-coached the cross country ski team

Ma, Library Science

Activities and Societies: Concentration in Preservation and Conservation. Worked as the UW Astronomy Department Librarian for 2 years..

Ba, Latin/Education/Ancient Studies

I sang in various St. Olaf choirs, I worked in the Education Department Library, I performed in the Latin plays.