Stephanie Freas Email & Phone Number

Zanesville, Ohio

-Oversees the operations, services, facilities, and programs of Main Library and Branches & Extension. -Provides leadership and guidance to supervisory staff in fulfilling their responsibilities and works on the public service desks with staff on an as needed basis. -Establishes work priorities for direct reports, provides direction and coordinates.

Rifle, CO

-Manage a staff of seven, which includes reviews, payroll, scheduling, reviewing, hiring, and training-Developed and initiated strategic branch restructuring to enhance user experience and collection layout-Increased library outreach to local community of 9,000 to improve relations with community, increase library cardholders, and build partnerships with.

Main Library

-Chaired strategic plan committee to increase awareness of the library’s resources to a diverse community and expand the community’s perception of the library-Worked individually with marketing consultant Ivy Group to research community demographics and alter the library’s marketing to improve relations with the local community-Provided personalized and.

Newark, OH

• Increased adult summer reading program participation by 114% in first year
• Assists customers with services including event registrations, programs, holds, and accounts
• Provides reference assistance, reader’s advisory, and other help during customer interactions
• Performs collection development for fiction collections for the Licking County Library system
• As continuing member of Strategic Plan Marketing committee, works collaboratively to increase creative outreach to community and survey customer feedback about library services and resources
• Participates in ongoing professional development through conferences, library-sponsored workshops, and MOOCS

Newark, OH

• Fulfilled reference, reader’s advisory, and other informational questions at main circulation desk
• Assisted patrons with maintaining library accounts as well as understanding services and policies
• Processed library’s resources for patrons, branches, and other libraries in statewide consortium
• Served on marketing committee to evaluate library services and reach underserved populations

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Oversaw 300% increase in document sharing requests over the course of one year
• Provided reference assistance to university community, including faculty and staff, undergraduate, graduate, nontraditional, and online students
• Processed Interlibrary Loan requests by verifying bibliographic information, adhering to CONTU guidelines, and utilizing Odyssey, Ariel, SirsiDynix, Worldcat Firstshare, and Rapid ILL products and services.
• Conducted both monthly and annual Interlibrary Loan statistics
• Fulfilled other miscellaneous tasks for consortium sharing, marketing, reference help, and circulation duties as needed by my supervisor and other librarians

Westerville, Ohio

• Familiarized patrons with library research, available materials and services, and the process of borrowing from the library, as well as OHIOLINK
• Organized, routed, and shelved books from short loan as well as the main stacks based on the Library of Congress call number system
• Frequently inspected the library inventory for shelving errors and lost books

Westerville, OH

• Student Coordinator, Otterbein-Genoa Creative Literacy Alliance: Facilitated weekly update meetings, created a finance system for paying twelve poets and eight actors, arranged events such as performances, field trips.
• Student Poet of the Alliance: Worked closely with another student for two years to coordinate daily lessons in two weekresidencies to introduce poetry to the middle school students and compile a student poem anthology
• Assistant to Book Publication: contacted over twenty publishing houses with requests for permissions and secured rightsfor poems to be published in his book, Poetry of Place: Helping Students Write Their Worlds

Master'S Degree, Library And Information Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Language And Literature, General, 3.96 -Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Alpha Lambda Delta, Campus Programming Board- President, Student Senate, Aegis Humanities Journal- Editorial.