• Serials Librarian/Assistant Professor, August 2003-August 2004
  • Assisted in the management of the Serials Department relating to searching, ordering, receiving, claiming, binding and fiscal control of serials in all formats.
  • In Serials Coordinator's absence, served as manager for eight-member serials staff and processed invoices for print and electronic serials.
  • With Serials Coordinator, participated in short- and long-range planning for serials department.
  • With Serials Coordinator, created and updated policies and procedures for serials management.
  • Performed license review and communicated frequently with vendors and publishers.
  • Assisted with incorporation of new technologies, such as:
    • Integrated library system migration from DRA to SIRSI.
    • SFX/OpenURL link resolver implementation.
  • Taught copyright workshop and software application workshops for MSU Libraries' Instructional Media Center.
  • Continued library liaison and copyright duties.
    
    
• Instruction Services Librarian/Assistant Professor, July 2001-July 2003
  • Developed information literacy/research instruction programs and professional development workshops for faculty, students, staff and the community.
  • Created and maintained online tutorials, in both HTML and Flash formats.
  • Maintained Library Instruction Web pages on MSU Libraries' Web site.
  • Served on library and university committees.
  • Performed library liaison/subject bibliography duties for:
    • Instructional Systems, Leadership and Workforce Development.
    • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
  • Served as MSU Libraries' copyright contact, including maintaining MSU Libraries' copyright resources Web page and co-chairing ad hoc university copyright guidelines committee.
  • Wrote regular "DataBasics" column for the MSU Memo, the faculty and staff newsletter for Mississippi State University.

• Provided course/workshop support for university-wide faculty course management system training for Blackboard. Staffed the Blackboard virtual help desk for the University of Tennessee.
• Provided workshop support and individual consultations for university-wide faculty instructional software training. Topics and software include conversion, editing, and uploading of digital video and audio; effective use of Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat in the classroom; and use of Dreamweaver and Netscape Composer.

• Member of Elsevier Science grant-supported research group to study electronic journal usage.
• Developed survey instrument with Dr. Carol Tenopir and research group for electronic journal usage study at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
• Assisted in the composition of a successful National Science Foundation grant proposal.
• Compiled final bibliographies for Towards Electronic Journals (2000), by Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King, and "Using and Reading Scholarly Literature," by Donald W. King and Carol Tenopir, in Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (2000).
• Used Blackboard in the Web development of Information Science 530.
• Created PowerPoint presentations for Dr. Tenopir's speeches.
• Performed literature searches in online databases for Dr. Tenopir.

• Taught Developmental English in the remedial/developmental program.
• Developed personalized strategies for teaching grammar and composition.

• Designed pages in QuarkXPress on a daily deadline.
• Served as interim Associated Press wire editor.
• Evaluated, selected, and edited AP wire stories on a daily deadline.
• Trained new associated press wire editor.
• Wrote theater reviews and feature articles on deadline.

• Taught English 101 (Rhetoric and Composition).
• Developed personalized strategies for teaching narrative, argument and analysis.
• Created personalized syllabus and course outline.
• Evaluated and selected appropriate textbooks from an approved pool.

• Researched and wrote news and feature articles on deadline.

• Organized annual lectures, including providing publicity and scheduling itineraries for guest lecturers.
• Planned and executed orientation activities for new graduate students.
• Awarded joint appointment as Editor of The Yalobusha Review and Graduate Instructor for academic year 1996-1997.

• Evaluated, priced, and shelved young adult books.
• Provided customer service for selling, buying and trading books.

• Proofread and assembled audit reports.
• Provided paraprofessional support.

• Design newsletter in Adobe PageMaker and convert to Adobe PDF for printing.
• Solicit and edit articles for inclusion.

• Designed newsletter in Adobe PageMaker and QuarkXpress and converted to Adobe PDF for printing.
• Oversaw transition from print to partial online distribution of newsletter.
• Communicated with ALA printing services to establish production timelines.
• Solicited, wrote and edited articles for inclusion.

• Designed journal in Adobe PageMaker for camera-ready copy.
• Drafted budgetary proposals for department chair and university administrators.
• Managed staff of three and supervised acceptance and flow of submissions.
• Created database in ClarisWorks to track progress of submissions.
• Functioned as publicist and a facilitator for Poets in Person, a NEH program, in the Mississippi Delta.
• Communicated bi-weekly with printing services to establish production timelines.
• Organized a city-wide reading to celebrate publication of journal.

• Designed layout and artwork in QuarkXPress for a monthly broadside publication.
• Provided publicity for and coordinated distribution of the broadside.

• QuarkXPress
• Adobe PageMaker, Photoshop, Acrobat
• Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks
• HTML

• SMART Board
• ELMO Projector

• WebFeat
• Endeavor Voyager
• Sirsi
• DRA (now Sirsi)
• SFX
• Serials Solutions
• EBSCO Electronic Journal Service

Other

• Microsoft Office applications for Macintosh and Windows environments
• Microsoft Outlook

• Library Quarterly, 2001.
• The Southeastern Librarian, 2002-2004.
• Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (eds. Marcia Bates & Mary Niles Maack, Taylor & Francis), 2008.

• Member, 2000-present.
• Member, Advisory Committee, American Libraries, 2008-2010 (invited).
• Member, New Members Round Table, 2000-2005.
• Member, Footnotes committee, New Members Round Table, 2001-2002.
• Member, Newsletter committee, Library Instruction Round Table, 2003-2005.
• Chair, Scholarship and Research Committee (ad hoc), New Members Round Table, 2004-2005.

• Member, 2001-2006.
• Member, Instruction Section, 2001-2006.
• Member, Communications Committee (as editor of IS Newsletter), Instruction Section, 2004-2006.
• Member, Communications Committee, Instruction Section, 2001-2003.

• Member, 2002-2004.
• Chair, Copyright Committee, 2003-2004.
• Member, Legislative Committee (copyright liaison), 2002-2003.

• Member, 2002-2003.

• Member, 2000-2001.

• Alabama Library Association’s College, University and Special Libraries’ Division Outstanding Professional Publication Award, 2010.
• Nominated for inaugural Innovative Alumni Award (2009), School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee.
• Named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker, March 15, 2007.
• Recipient, Gale/SELA Continuing Education and Professional Development Committee Professional Grant (to attend the 2002 SELA/SCLA Joint Conference, Charleston, South Carolina), $500, 2002.
• Recipient, Chancellor's Citation for Extraordinary Professional Promise, University of Tennessee, 2001.
• Recipient, The Gary R. Purcell Award of Merit, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, 2001.
• Recipient, Association of College & Research Libraries Conference Scholarship (to attend the 2001 Association of College & Research Libraries Conference, Denver, Colorado), $800, 2001.
• Phi Kappa Phi, International Honor Society, Inducted University of Tennessee, 2000.
• Recipient, Boone Tree Library Association Conference Scholarship (to attend the 2000 Tennessee Library Association Annual Conference), $250, 2000.
• Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society, Inducted University of Mississippi, 1995.