Library Staff Details
Responsibilities
Invoicing new books and DVDs, training students in processing paperbacks and binding pamphlets, repairing damaged library items using archival methods and standards. Check out pictures of damaged books I've repaired at the Ithaca College Library here:
http://staff.ithaca.edu/myoung/gallery/5672/
Education
MLIS University of Pittsburgh, 2010.
BA English SUNY Fredonia, 2000.
Library Experience
Digitization Volunteer, Steele Memorial Library, Elmira NY, 2011.
--Assisted in photographing and digitally organizing cemetery records for genealogical use.
IPL2 Reference and Student feedback Volunteer, Drexel University, 2009-present.
--The Internet Public Library <http://www.ipl.org> provides free, online, searchable subject guides for everyone. Can't find what you're looking for? Ask a librarian in their free online reference service. Who knows, I may answer your question! I also provide feedback to library students just beginning their reference interviewing adventures.
Genealogical Research Volunteer, Steele Memorial Library, Elmira NY, 2008-2009.
--Compiled paper and online indexes of local births, marriages, and deaths for use in genealogical research.
Cataloguing Volunteeer, Rakow Research Library, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY, 2008-2009.
--Catalogued an impossibly disorganized German Glass Magazine's Anhangs (Supplements).
Book Repair and Conservation, University of the South, Sewanee TN, 1995-1997.
--Learned the ins and outs of archival book repair and preservation. Here began a life-long passion!
Affiliations
American Library Association, 2008-present.
New York Library Association, 2011-present.
Toastmasters International, 2011-present.
Ithaca College Library Diversity Team member, 2011