Professional Experience

Assistant Director
Division of Library and Information Science
2004 - Present

  • Divides time between the Queens and Oakdale campuses
  • Plans and implements course offerings for future semesters, including contacting and hiring adjunct faculty members
  • Advise students on their course selections
  • Plan and arrange colloquia, contacting and hiring guest speakers
  • Prepare reports for both the university and outside constituents

Assistant Adjunct Professor
Division of Library and Information Science
2002 - Present

  • Teaches the Lab component of the core courses - Introduction to Bibliographic Control
  • Teaches the students the use of OCLC and RLIN databases and utilities, creating MARC records, subject analysis and Dewey and LCSH classification schemes. Evaluating OPACs and databases
  • Creates and plans ongoing assignments throughout the semester

Reference Librarian
1999-2000

  • Assist students, staff and faculty members with reference services and the retrieval of information using the St. John's OPAC and reference databases
  • Taught basics of library use and online database searching to undergraduates

Computer Lab Instructor
1998-2004
Supervised the Division of Library and Information Sciences computer lab, assisted students with research and computer skills.

Adult Reference Librarian
Longwood Public Library, Middle Island, NY
2004 - Present

  • Provides reference services to a diversified patron group
  • Plans and teaches computer courses on an ongoing basis to various patron groups, including courses on Word, Excel, Search engines and Internet User Group topics
  • Prepares handouts, tutorials and pathfinders
  • Assist in collection development, interlibrary loan and database searching