Email: [email protected]

Experience

8/02 - Present Secondary Librarian  - Peak to Peak Charter School, Boulder Valley School District
Provide a wide variety of reader's advisory, research and reference services to library users, planning, organizing and presenting Information Literacy programs, including library tours and orientations, research skills training seminars, and literacy developmental skills. Development and implementation of library policies. Collection development and maintenance, development and record keeping of displays for staff and public bulletin boards. Statistical tracking of book circulation and all other interactions and use of the library. Processing of new materials, bibliography development, develop and implement library policies of all sorts. Member of the library building development committee. Database management, hardware and software troubleshooting. Supervise varying numbers of volunteers in all areas of library tasks.

1/00 - 8/02 Patron Services Librarian 2  - JCPL , Standley Lake branch
Provide a wide variety of reader's advisory, research and reference services to library users, planning, organizing and presenting youth services programs, such as preschool and toddler storytimes, after school programming for older children, tours, Summer Reading, and outreach to local schools. Collection development and maintenance, development and record keeping of displays for staff and public bulletin boards and display cases. Processing of new materials, and work on bibliographies.

4/99 - 12/99 Patron Services Librarian 2 - JCPL, Columbine branch
 Provided a wide variety of reader's advisory, research and reference services to library users, planning, organizing and presenting youth services programs including toddler and preschool storytimes, tours, after school programming for older children, Summer Reading, and outreach to local schools. Collection development and maintenance, development of displays for bulletin boards. Processing of new materials and work on bibliographies.

6/97 - 1/99 Community Library Associate - Timberland Regional Library
Provided a wide variety of reader's advisory, research and reference service to patrons, planning, organizing and presenting youth services programs, including toddler and preschool storytimes, programming for older children, tours, outreach to local schools, and computer education for older children and adults. Supervision of volunteers, and in the absence of Community Librarian 2, supervised building and staff.

2/97 - 1/99 Substitute levels 2 and 3 - Timberland Regional Library
 Provide a wide variety of circulation, reader's advisory, research and reference to library users.

8/96 -6/97 Art Teacher/ paraprofessional - McCleary School District
 Researched, planned and presented art lessons for children grades K - 5. Worked with Literacy students.

Education

MLS: University of Arizona, 2001
           Deans List with Distinction 2001

BFA/ Painting: University of Washington, 1996
          Deans List, 1994-1996

BA/ Liberal Arts: University of Washington, 1996
          Deans List, 1994-1996

Interests

Colorado Library Association member 2002 - present

Mountain Plains Library Association member 2002 - present

Storytelling volunteer at Standley Lake Public Library, 2002 - present.

Peak to Peak Tech Committee member, 2002 - present.

Painting, drawing, and creating children’s books.

Volunteer at Peak to Peak school library, 2001-2002.

Outreach Committee: Timberland Regional Library, 1997 - 1999

Student Print Association: UW, 1994-1996

Certification

Reference Levels 2 and 3 certification, Effective Reference Performance training certificate.

Certified Marcopolo "Internet Content for the Classroom" Trainer.

Skills

Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook, Triple III, Dynix, web page design, Infotrac Searchbank, UMI/ProQuest, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Access, EBSCO, LOCIS, OCLC, Plus and Prospector, Lexis/Nexis, Pagemaker, PhotoDeluxe, Printshop, Lexis-Nexis, Galenet, Newsbank, NoveList, Science Experiments Online, and many others; basic computer hardware maintenance and troubleshooting.

References available upon request.

Last updated 5/31/03