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Job hunting?  Want a great resume?
The NMRT Resume Review Service is for you! Librarians from all types of libraries, with various specializations have volunteered to help you make your resume shine!

  • The year-round Resume Review Service via e-mail is available to all NMRT members. Not a NMRT member yet? Dues are only $10 in addition to the ALA membership fee. See the Membership link on ALA's site to sign up!
  • The on-site Resume Review Service is open to anyone attending ALA's Annual Conference or Midwinter Meeting.

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Check out our new website at http://www.ala.org/ala/nmrt/comm/ResumeReview.htm

Ready to volunteer at a conference? Visit our Conference Wiki at http://nmrtrrs.wikispaces.com


We can’t guarantee that you will get the job, but our reviewers can help you avoid making common mistakes that could cost you the interview.

Resume Review Service Members 2005-2006

Johnna Childs
johnnachi[at]att.net
Johnna Childs is the Cataloging Librarian at Auburn University Montgomery, a position she has held since 2002. After earning her MSI in 2000 from University of Michigan, she served as Head of Collection Development for the Internet Public Library. Johnna also currently serves on the NMRT Handbook Committee.

Tiffani Conner
tiffani.conner[at]uconn.edu
Tiffani Conner is a reference librarian and liaison to sociology at the Univ of Connecticut. She completed her MSIS from Tennessee in 2004. Prior to her current postition, she worked at the UT library for 5 years in both Access Services and Reference. Tiffani has published 2 book reviews and anticipates her first published article in January 2006. She has served on various ALA and NMRT committees and currently serves as Liaison to SRRT for NMRT.

Wendy Ellis
wellis[at]knology.net
Wendy Ellis is the Digital Information Librarian at Robert B. Greenblatt Library, Medical College of Georgia. Before her current postion, Wendy served the Library as Systems Analyst primarily supporting the Voyager Library Information System server and online OPAC system. In December 2004, she graduated from USC with a MLIS.

Deana Groves
deana.groves[at]wku.edu
Deana Groves is the education cataloger at Western KY University. For 13+ years Deana worked as a support staff in a public and a medical library before completing her MLIS from Univ of Hawaii in 2003. Last year, She served on the NMRT Orientation Committee and for the past two years has volunteered at the Resume Review booth during Annual.

Laurel Haycock
hayco001[at]tc.umn.edu
Laurel Haycock is the Librarian for Education, Psychology, and Speech-Language-Hearing Science at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN. Her responsibilities include collection development, liaison, instruction, and reference. She returned to academic librarianship in 2000 in a mid-life career transition.

Angela Kelleher
keller[at]alma.edu
Angela is the Access Services Librarian at Alma College. She received her MLS from Wayne State in May 2003. Angela also has a MSW from Michigan State.  In 2005, She attended ACRL's  Immersion program for information literacy. Angela has served on the NMRT Pres. Prog. committee, and helped the RRS at ALA Orlando in 2004.

Nanako Kodaira
n.kodaira[at]duke.edu
Nanako is the catalog librarian for the Japanese language and internet resources at the William R. Perkins Library at Duke University in Durham, NC. Nanako received her MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000, where she also received her MA in Linguistics. She has served on the Resume Review Service Committee since December 2002. Nanako has also volunteered as a resume reviewer at the RRS booth during the Annual and Midwinter meetings for the past couple of years.

Amanda Myers
amyers[at]mbc.edu
Amanda Myers is a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, VA. She completed her M.L.S. from UNC Chapel Hill in August 2004. While in school, she interned at GlaxoSmithKline, North Carolina State Univ, and Duke Univ. Currently, Amanda also serves on the continuing education and scholarship committees of the Virginia Library Association.

Susie Skarl
susie.skarl[at]ccmail.nevada.edu
Susie Skarl is the Urban Studies Librarian at UNLV Libraries. She obtained her M.L.S. in 1999 from Kent State University and a B.A. in Communication & Journalism from Ohio State University. Prior to her current position, was Federal Depository Librarian at UNLV and spent several years before that working at government and community college libraries in Central Ohio. For the last two years, Susie was Co-Chair of the Resume Review Service Committee and is looking forward to serving on the committee for another year.

Samantha Thompson-Franklin
sfranklin[at]lcsc.edu
Samantha is a Public Services Librarian for Collection Management at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, ID. She has held this position since Jan. 2005. Prior to this, Samantha and her husband lived and worked for 3 years in the southern African country of Lesotho where Samantha was a solo librarian at a small theological college. Samantha has also worked in corporate libraries as an information specialist at a commercial bank and at a semiconductor company, both in Silicon Valley, California. Samantha earned her MLIS in 2000 from San Jose State University. Prior to attending library school, Samantha worked in academic libraries for many years as a reference library assistant. She has both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in History from the University of Calgary, Canada (her home town). Samantha has been a member of NMRT since 1998 and also serves on the Archives Committee.

Joyce Ann Wheatley
joyceannwheatley[at]hotmail.com
Joyce is a Librarian I for Adult Reference Services at Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca, New York. She received her M.L.S. in August 2003 from Syracuse University. Prior experience includes Interim Reference Librarian at Tompkins Cortland Community College, and Virtual Reference Librarian/AskNSDL Manager for the Information Institute of Syracuse. Before becoming a librarian, Joyce was a speech/language therapist. She has served on the Resume Review Service Committee since December 2004.

Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen, Chair
dlowewin[at]mailer.fsu.edu
Dawn is the Special Initiatives Librarian at Florida State University. She has been in this position since 2003, after she graduated from Louisiana State University with her MLIS. She has worked in libraries continuously since she was 13. Dawn has been active in professional associations and round tables including NMRT since 2000, she has served on the local arrangements committee, the 3M grant committee, and the Footnotes committee previously.


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