Resume

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Work History

Metropolitan New York Library Council, 2012 – Present
Director of Programs and Partnerships /Assistant Director for Programs and Partnerships

  • Directs METRO’s online and in-person professional development schedule
  • Oversees development and distribution of educational media produced at METRO
  • Creates strategy for and directs METRO’s communications efforts
  • Oversees administrative duties required to ensure smooth operations across program areas

Program Manager

  • Direct all aspects of NYC Digital Safety: Privacy & Security
  • Design, develop, and facilitate workshops and symposia
  • Participated in Mozilla Foundation’s Web Literacy for Library Staff

Education and Outreach Manager

  • Managed all aspects of METRO’s workshop production cycle
  • Facilitated the METRO Meetups volunteer program
  • Oversaw METRO communications, including METRO’s Newsletter, @mnylc on Twitter, and METRO’s discussion list

Community Engagement Manager

  • Managed all aspects of METRO’s multi-track Annual Conference
  • Managed content on metro.org
  • Designed and implemented social media policy for Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

Boosey & Hawkes, New York, NY – 2007 – 2012
Rental and Licensing Librarian

  • Negotiated and executed performance licenses
  • Provided reference services to librarians and musicians around the world
  • Improved library workflows and processes

Circulating Materials Librarian

  • Managed circulating collection of music from Boosey & Hawkes and affiliated companies
  • Arranged interlibrary loan for music from international vendors
  • Developed records management system and recall procedures for materials in off-site storage
  • Proposed and implemented internal SharePoint site

Education

Certificate in Learning Design (in progress) from New York University School of Professional Studies

M.S. – Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute

M.M. – Music Performance from Western Michigan University

B.M. – Music Performance from University of Wisconsin – Madison

Publications

Cracking the Code: The IMLS/Mozilla Web Literacy for Library Staff Project in Tech for All, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

Career Transitions for Librarians: Proven Strategies for Moving to Another Type of Library with Ray Pun Rowman & Littlefield, 2016

Fine-tuning the Institutional Repository: Evaluating the Self- Archiving Behavior of Researchers in Music in The Serials Librarian, 2012

An Imperfect Decade: The Culture Wars and the National Endowment for the Arts in Documents to the People, 2012

Professional Affiliations

American Library Association, 2012 – present

SLA (Special Libraries Association), 2009 – 2015

Awards

SLA NY Mergent Outstanding Member Award (Communications Committee), 2012 J. J. Keller Rising Star Award, 2012

Library Journal Mover & Shaker, 2012

SLA NY Mergent Outstanding Member Award (Website Redesign Committee), 2011

Updated January 2023