Description
Summary: Experienced librarian with expertise in public, academic and specialized libraries. Proven skills in collection development, programming, and information literacy education. Successful in developing imaginative solutions resulting in an increase of overall library circulation and registration of new patrons. Instrumental in developing new audio visual technologies and significant library material innovations. Library Experience: Teen Services Librarian October 2012 - September 2015 Rensselaer Public Library, Rensselaer, NY 12144 (518) 462-1193 Responsible for all general library (circulation & returns) desk operations, daily Upper Hudson interlibrary loan pull list and collected fines for overdue library materials via Sierra III Directed patrons' reference questions, and created imaginative teen summer reading club programs Created and chaired Rensselaer Public Library's Anime Club meetings, programs and field trips Innovated young adult fiction collection development and "teen time" weekly programs Screened patrons/granted access to materials according to UHLS library policies Supervised the library in the absence of the library director * Shelved library materials according to Dewey Classification scheme, catalogued materials according to MARC & AACR 2 * Librarian October 2008 - August 2010 * Notre Dame Bishop Gibbons School, Schenectady, NY 12304 (518) 393-3131 * Responsible for all children/teen fiction and non-fiction collection development, and director of the library renovation project Performed all reference duties, readers advisory and media center computer and software problems Created and chaired Notre Dame Bishop Gibbons Anime Club and field trips Full time instructor for high school level Information Literacy courses in the use a wide range of library resources, both print and electronic Ph. E-Mail: "tim.burke@uhls.lib.ny.us" tim.burke@uhls.lib.ny.us John Vallely, Cataloger/Adjunct Professor of History (retired) Siena College, J. Spencer and Patricia M. Standish Library 439 - 3989 (home) Email: "jvallely@siena.edu" jvallely@siena.edu
