Rebecca Dougherty Email & Phone Number

Racine, WI, US

School library collection development and programmingCurate, track, and monitor resourcesOversee and utilize the Common School Fund allocations in accordance with state guidelinesDirect and supervise the work of library assistantsRemain current in professional practices and developments, information technologies, and education research applicable to school.

WI, US

Assisting students and faculty with research, ILL, original and copy cataloging, managing electronic resources, and other duties associated with running a small, academic/special library.- providing one-on-one library orientation to all new students- securing ten new electronic library resources providing access to more information- participating in new.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

Direct the organization and operation of the Krug Rare Books Room.Lead the Rare Books room collection development, maintenance, preservation, security and access initiatives and procedures.Evaluate materials in the general collection for transfer to rarities and work with the Technical Services Department on updating catalog holdings records.Supervise.

Northbrook, IL, US

Teaching information literacy, digital citizenship, critical thinking, and lifelong learning skills in a K8 school as the sole school library media specialist on campus.- weeded the collection extensively of 13,000+ items or 1/3 of the entire collection- helped design a new Learning Commons including the Library, a Reading Room, and separate classroom with.

Chicago, IL, US

• Working with faculty, staff, and students to ensure the relevance, adequacy, and accessibility of the physical and online holdings; orienting all constituents to best practices for utilizing information resources.
• Providing reference and research support remotely and in person.
• Developing and maintaining the print and electronic collections.
• Serving on accreditation team visits.
• Tracking student D2L course attendance.
• Providing citation instruction and support.

Racine, WI, US

• Substitute teaching all grades and subjects in a K-12, large, urban, diverse, public school district.
• Working independently and using judgment in making decisions within established procedures.
• Serving a diverse, majority-minority student body in the fifth largest school district in the state with almost 20,000 students, 65% of whom qualify for free or reduced lunch.
• Remotely teaching kindergarten and third grade in the 20/21 school year with Google Meet, Google Classroom, Zoom, Seesaw, YouTube, WeVideo, FlipGrid, Sora, and other online learning platforms.

Madison, WI, US

• Providing dynamic and innovative information literacy instruction tailored to individual instructors and courses;developing strong, long lasting relationships throughout the campus and community; developingand.
• Increasing the number of library instruction classes taught and students reached by 25% in one year.
• Partnering with new departments including Business and Communication Arts to provide library instruction in their classes.
• Participating in the NEA grant WI READS Big Read program by collaborating with other UW Colleges Libraries, West Bend Community Memorial Library, Germantown Community Library, UW-Washington County's Gay Straight.
• Serving as the Political Science/Law subject liaison for all 14 UW Colleges campuses.
• Serving on the UW Colleges Library Council Professional Development and Service Committee. Organizing Lunch & Learn speaker series, recommending approval for professional development funding requests, and planning.

Reference, readers' advisory, cataloging, collection development, IT troubleshooting, programming, serving as Librarian in charge during evening and weekend shifts, among the many, many other duties conferred upon a Reference Librarian.- ordering children's DVD's, CD's, and audiobooks.- ordering adult DVD's and CD's.- assisting with school visits.

Working at the Youth Services department desk assisting patrons with their information needs.- assisting with the summer 2011 Harry Potter event at the DeKoven Center- creating a top 10 best books for new mothers bibliography- completing safety, dangerous person in the building, online training- volunteering for the 2011 library sponsored Racine Literacy.

• Coordinating the operations of an academic library consortium including but not limited to: planning and managing the budget, managing future growth including marketing services and establishing services to new.
• Preparing membership proposals for potential new members and adding a new Full Member.
• Gathering information for and designing the WISPALS Annual Report.
• Revising the Operating Agreement and Bylaws documents with the Executive Committee.
• Securing legal counsel.
• Working with the Executive Committee and attorney to create a new membership level.

• Fulfilling general librarian responsibilities in a medium, urban public library including but not limited to: providing reference and readers’ advisory services, fulfilling collection management responsibilities.
• Initiating and building teen fiction and rap music collections for the first time at this library.
• Building the graphic novels collection.
• Working closely with the youth services department on programming for families and teens and on collection development.
• Facilitating a lapsed relationship with the local high schools and school media centers by attending district meetings and conferences, keeping in contact through email and school visits and offering my services to.
• Increasing the amount of adult programs offered to at least once a month and the variety in program topics including starting the library’s first ever Adult and YA Summer Reading Programs.

• Maintaining all operations of a small, rural public library including but not limited to: supervising, training and evaluating staff, providing reference and readers’ advisory services, fulfilling collection management.
• Being the first librarian at this library to attend all village board meetings. Preparing and presenting a proposed budget to the village board with the assistance of my library board. The village board approved an.
• Writing the first Collection Management policy the library ever had.
• Serving on the Sharon Main Street organization committees and going door-to-door with a survey about local businesses and organizations.
• Writing a request for proposal for new hardware and software for our local area network, presenting it to the library board, receiving proposals and ultimately hiring someone to do the work.
• Building graphic novels and digital video discs collections from scratch.

• Supervising student workers.
• Providing reference assistance in person, over the phone and virtually.

• Writing the Collection Management policy with the Director.
• Writing an extensive bibliography of parenting materials owned by the library and found on the Internet.

M.A., Library And Information Studies

B.A., Film Studies/English

English

Marine Biology

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