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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

- Provide information services to patrons, including reference, readers’ advisory, and outreach. - Recommend customized reading materials, with an emphasis on adult services. - Develop and deliver original in-person programming for the public, including book clubs, group crafts, and presentations to outside community groups. - Perform library maintenance such as weeding and collection curation using professional knowledge, experience, and tools such as Sierra and Decision Center.- Troubleshoot library technologies (including copiers, scanners, and printers) and patron tech issues on tablets, smartphones, and library reading phone applications. - Develop community specific resources for patrons for specific needs such as legal help, employment, and healthcare options.- Select titles and replacement titles for adult collection- Weed and curate adult collections and titles - Liaise between the library and community partners, including Pittsburgh Hispanic Development Corporation, local senior activity centers, and senior independent living facilities. - Organize and maintain community collections with local partners, ensuring that local community has many options to see library titles relevant to their lives. - Present library resources and other community resources to community groups. - Manager-in-charge as needed, often several times a week.- Oversee circulation staff, teen and children staff, part-time staff, volunteers, and substitutes when person-in-charge.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

- Provide staff coverage for all CLP branches for various roles, including customer experience, reference, shelving, children’s and teens’ services.- Assist and instruct customers in use of library resources, facilities, and policies. - Assist with readers' advisory and/or general reference questions for customers, in person and via telephone. - Assist customers with identifying and locating library material selections.- Instruct customers on printing, scanning, faxing, copying, and other computer questions.- Perform duties related to the opening and/or closing of the branch. - Understand, advocate for, and engage with library users to ensure their needs are addressed through relevant services. - Build community through meaningful interactions between the Library, neighborhood, and its users. - Understand and relay information about all library services offered to customers. - Resolve moderate customer behavioral and location issues, and communicate the escalation of a security issue including adhering to location safety plan.- Provide a welcoming library space through implementation of the appropriate library behavior policy.

Virginia, United States

- Provide a wide variety of information services to patrons, including reference, readers’ advisory, and outreach. - Research community needs to better market library material and programming with educational displays, promotional posters, and educational handouts.- Recommend customized reading materials to patrons, with an emphasis on adult services. - Create content for social media posts and external promotional communication. - Liaise with local agencies, educators, and committees throughout the county library system. - Develop information literacy programming, including in-house database training, hands-on training on specialized equipment, and daily training for patrons regarding public access computers, mobile devices, and general information technology use. - Perform library maintenance such as weeding and collection curation using professional knowledge and experience. - Develop and deliver original in-person and digital programming for the public, including weekly English language learning classes. - Troubleshoot library technologies (including copiers and 3D printers) and patron tech issues on tablets, smartphones, and library reading phone applications. - Develop community specific resources for patrons for specific needs such as legal help, employment, and healthcare options. - Research and develop internal training for library databases and resources. - Assist patrons with specialized collections, such as genealogy and digitization projects. - Communicate and interpret library policies and procedures to patrons.

Fairfax County, Virginia, United States

- Provide circulation and reader advisor services for patrons with access needs, including Talking Books through Library of Congress. - Work directly with the Library of Congress Talking Book program, maintaining machines, inventory, and production.- Provide thorough customer service to homebound patrons by phone and email.- Provide mail delivery for homebound patrons through library system. - Utilize National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled applications such as BARD, WebReads, and Gutenberg Cartridge Duplicator. - Run accessible programs such as mail and telephone book clubs. - Received commendation from bookclub for excellent reader advisor services and customer service.- Assist with accessible technologies, such as Braille printers, print magnifiers, memory care collections, and audio described movies.- Categorize books in the Talking Book Program in genres and appeals for indexing and easy identification among staff. - Perform patron outreach, research, and analyze reading preferences and patterns.

- Create appeals for and sort through column and editorial pitches, offering all writers suggestions regarding writing development or audience fit. - Work with stand out pitch writers to develop a monthly column plan for editorial board approval- Develop mentoring relationships with column writers to develop theme and writing voice, as well as personal concerns such as identifying details, etc. - Edit column for content, clarity, and style using publication style guide- Post and standardize and finalize content for publication on Wordpress website- Operate within long-distance organization structure for content development and approval, article deadlines, copyediting, and final publication.

Haymarket, Va

Run circulation and information desks. Conduct reference interviews. Assist patrons with book holds. Run collection maintenance reports. Develop genealogical research training. Conduct readers’ advisory interviews.

Centreville, Va

Assist teachers and staff in administrative and educational capacities. Substitute teach elementary grades in all subjects as needed. Administer DIEBELS Oral Reading Fluency and Retell Fluency Test.

- Copyedit book-length projects (including memoirs and nonfiction) for content, clarity, and grammatical errors using Chicago Manual of Style- Maintained long-distance working relationship with staff editor, providing continuous feedback and project updates.

Master'S Degree, Library And Information Science, Health Informatics, 4.0 Gpa

Ba, Journalism And Political Science

Activities and Societies: - Resident Assistant - Student Reporter and Assistant Editor - Dean's List for Academic Achievement