Ryan Mccomas, Mlis Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

• Maintain print and electronic resources collection: Process acquisitions, coordinate with vendors,order books, research titles for purchase, manage subscriptions and metadata, cataloging,maintain access to electronic.
• Provide circulation and reference services; collaborate with the reference team on the development oflibrary guides and training materials, bibliographies, systematic reviews and searches
• Planned, organized and implemented the library catalog shift of all records from Innovative MillenniumILS to Ex Libris Alma and its discovery layer, Primo. Created help guides, led instructional training, and designed.
• Assist in interviewing and training new library staff; supervise temporary employees and interns
• Participate in library outreach by staffing hospital events and blogging
• Assisted with developing a digital library statistics dashboard

New York, New York, United States

• Maintain print and electronic resources collection: process new journals/monographs, order books, copy cataloging with OCLC records, and routine e-resource maintenance with Serial Solutions
• Generate and analyze usage statistics of the print collection and electronic resources for collection assessment, analysis, and subscription renewal purposes
• Maintain and ensure accurate catalog records within Innovative Millennium ILS
• Train new temporary employees
• Provide reference services (research consultations/information literacy instruction) and collaborate with the reference team on the development of library guides and training materials, bibliographies, systematic.
• Developed and carried out weeding project of library's print books and journal collection by collaborating with reference and document delivery services teams

New York, New York, United States

• Support Document Delivery Services: Perform tasks including electronic request processing with ILLiad, Docline, Ariel, and Odyssey
• Collaborate with lending staff for interlibrary loan/document delivery and monitor electronic requests to ensure efficient workflow
• Provide reference consultation services at the Information Kiosks, using various resources like PubMed, Scopus, Ovid, CINAHL, Web of Science, etc.
• Assist the Reference team with the development of library guides and training materials, bibliographies and current awareness searches

New York, New York, United States

• Collaborate with editors and reporters on research for breaking news by gathering and analyzing information from databases and resources like LexisNexis, Accurint, Factiva, Newsbank, Courtlink, PACER, the New York Post.
• Build profiles of people and events using public records, legal resources, newspapers, and social media for the digital archive
• Assist with and teach staff on using research materials (databases, the New York Post digital archive, microform, etc.)

New York, New York, United States

• Update holdings for NYU libraries, maintain catalog records, and resolve catalog problems initiated by library staff
• Catalog monographs and serials in Ex Libris' Aleph, per cataloging standards and practices (LC, LCSH, MARC, AACR2R)
• Troubleshoot and cataloged rare and foreign language serial titles
• Inventory and update of entire NYU Bobst Library periodicals collection (~7000 items)

New York, NY

• Processed ~14 linear feet of the Ella Winter Papers: appraised, organized, housed, and described papers, clippings, publications, photographs and correspondence; encoded finding aid in EAD
• Created a Wordpress blog documenting archival work: Researched and evaluated digital tools and current literature regarding online access to archive collections (http://ellawinterpapers.wordpress.com/)

New York, New York, United States

• Reference chat through Library H3lp: Helped patrons with research via the university’s catalog, databases, e-journals, and other appropriate resources
• Assisted with collection development and created and analyzed reports of electronic resources' statistics
• Blogged weekly to publicize new library resources
• Edited and maintained the geology library research guide

New York, New York, United States

• Evaluated ~2000 linear feet of unprocessed and processed archival collections for the law library's catalog
• Sole processor of the "Constance Baker Motley Papers” – appraised, organized, housed, and described papers, clippings, correspondence, manuscripts, publications, and audio/visual materials
• Created a finding aid for the collection with Archivists' Toolkit
• Trained and supervised an intern to help process the collection

Brooklyn, NY

• Information Technology Project Assistant for Prof. Charles Rubenstein (09/2011-12/2011): Evaluated information technology courses in all U.S. Library and Information Science programs for Pratt’s review of its curriculum
• Serials Assistant for Pratt’s Technical Services Department (01/2012-05/2012): Managed entire serials collection - Received and processed periodicals and new acquisitions, cataloged periodicals in Millennium ILS.

New York, New York, United States

• Updated and fixed catalog records in Millennium ILS, copy cataloged, processed new acquisitions, and reclassified books to Library of Congress format
• Processed interlibrary loans and document delivery requests, and prepared serials for binding
• Created a folder level description of the Exhibition Office records and updated accession records in Archivists' Toolkit

Master Of Science, Library And Information Science

Advanced Certificate in Archives

Bachelor'S Of Science, Molecular And Cellular Biology

Activities and Societies: Alternative Spring Break, America Reads/America Counts, Kids in Chemistry Program, James Scholar, Alpha Chi.