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Employment
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Director of the Music Library, University
of Houston Libraries
2000-present
Chief administrator of the music library.
Hire, supervise, train and evaluate all employees assigned to the music
library.
Teach graduate level course Introduction to Musicology.
Maintain close relationships with music school faculty; collection development,
instruction and faculty liaison for music.
Assistant Music Librarian, University of Houston
Libraries
1999-2001
Assist and teach library patrons in the identification,
location, utilization and interpretation of library resources, both print
and electronic, through private and group bibliographic instruction sessions
at the Music Library and Anderson Library (main library).
Collection development in theatre and dance; assist in music collection
development.
Train staff in reference, circulation, and collection management. Supervise
one FTE and several student employees. Maintain web page and finding aids.
Assistant instructor, Introduction to Musicology course. Manage Interlibrary
loan. Serve at the reference desk at the main library.
Research Assistant, Music Library, University
of North Carolina
1997-1999
Assistant to public services librarian: reference,
acquisitions, cataloging, and webmaster duties including desk, telephone
and e-mail reference, trained staff on new electronic products, designed
and revised finding aids; searched electronic databases (OCLC FirstSearch,
Harrassowitz, Theodore Front, etc.) and the online public access catalog
(DRA), created in-house databases.
Retrospective conversion of card catalog records including editing of
MARC records for local online catalog.
Maintained existing web site and designed new web pages.
Graduate Assistant, Documenting the American South Digitization Project, University of North Carolina
1997-1998
Digitized selected texts and images: scanning (OCR), proofreading, SGML; participated in selecting appropriate texts.
Reference Assistant, Davis Graduate Library Reference Desk,University of North Carolina
January,1999-June,1999
Helped staff a busy desk which provides service in a broad range of subjects; assisted and trained library patrons in the identification, location, utilization and interpretation of library resources, both print and electronic; thoroughly trained in appropriate subjects by reference librarians.
Director of Education, Jordan Kitts Temple of
Music
1994-1995
Coordinated the local Music for Life, an organ
ownership, instruction and social program for senior adults; planned traditional
classes and private piano and organ instruction.
Music Instructor, Lakewood Dance/Music Center,
City of Norfolk
1990-1997
Classroom instruction in general music and piano
to students of all ages.
Professional Harpist,
1984-present
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Education
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Moores School of Music, University of Houston, Houston, TX
MM in progress
School of Information and Library
Science University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
MSLS 1999
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
BA 1997
Peabody Conservatory of Music, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Harp Performance 1986 - 88
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Computer
Skills
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Web authoring tools: HTML, SGML,
OmniPage Pro and DeskScan II scanning software; Adobe PhotoShop, Dreamweaver
and others.
Cataloging: OCLC PRISM, USMARC, AACR2R.
Integrated Library Systems:
DRA, Innovative.
Retrieval: Dialog, Lexis/Nexis, Ovid, Proquest, several
web search engines, etc.
Operating systems: Win9x, Windows NT, WindowsMe,
Unix.
Bibliographic knowledge of German and French.
Office 97 and 2000,
WordPerfect Suite 8 |
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Professional
Memberships
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Music Library Association 1998 -
Outreach Subcommittee 2001 -
2004, Marketing Subcommittee 2001 - 2004
American Library Association 1998 -
Texas Music Library Association 1999 -
American Society for Information Scientists 1998
- 2000
Information and Library Science Students Association,
School of Information and Library Science, University of
North Carolina, 1997 - 1999; Treasurer,
1997-1998
Sigma Alpha Iota, Professional Womens Music
Fraternity, 1990 -
Treasurer, Gamma Zeta chapter, 1990
- 1991
Faculty Advisor, Beta Pi chapter,
2000 -
Houston Alumni chapter, 2001 -
Music Leadership Award committee, 2001 -
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Presentations
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"Chamber Music Project: Involving The Student
Worker In Collection Management. Poster Session. Music Library Association.
Annual Meeting. Louisville, Kentucky. February 2000.
Report from University of Minnesota Libraries
Training Institute for Early Career Librarians from Traditionally Underrepresented
Groups at a branch-wide meeting, University of Houston. January 10, 2001.
Who k(New): Recruitment and Retention at the
University of Houston Libraries. With Anne Mitchell and J. Michael Thompson.
Texas Library Association District VIII Fall Meeting. Houston, Texas.
October 2001.
Modern Black Gospel Music. Guest lecture
for Sacred Music course. Moores School of Music. University of Houston,
Houston, Texas. October 2001.
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