SUMMARY
- Ø Great interpersonal skills due to more than twenty years’ experience working with the public including peers, students, faculty and employers
- Ø Proficiency with online databases including Proquest, Ebsco, Wilson, Medline, Google Scholar
- More than two years’ experience at a University Library ( virtual and in person) reference desk including conducting the “reference interview” and Access Services
- Ø Technology/application skills including Microsoft Office Suite, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Moodle, WebCt./Blackboard, SmartBoard
- Ø Supervisory skills, administrative experience
- Ø Individual/group teaching and training
- Ø Prepared Collection Development Project with a budget
DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES
PALMER SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE at C.W. Post College, L.I.U., Brookville, NY M.L.I.S. and Advanced Certificate in Archives & Records Management
QUEENS COLLEGE, Flushing, NY Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, 14 credits of Education
MOLLOY COLLEGE, Rockville Centre, NY. Health Care Certificate for Medical Billing/Coding
NYS DEPARTMENT of EDUCATION, Public Librarian’s Professional Certificate
LIBRARY EXPERIENCE
Reference Desk Assistant, Schwartz Memorial Library at C.W. Post College;
Brookville, NY 2008-2010
- Ø Assisted diverse student population and faculty with reference and computer questions
- Ø Demonstrated and taught students how to search online catalogue and databases
- Ø Educated students in information literacy
- Ø Collaborated in deaccession/weeding project (reports, analysis, and shifting)
- Ø Shelf read and shelved books and serials, keyed in bar codes on recently acquired books
- Ø Worked in partnership with colleagues on team projects
- Ø Solo librarian on multiple occasions at reference desk
- Ø Maintained daily statistics of reference usage
Internship at Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library 2010
- Ø Checked for missing journals and updated these records in ILS
- Ø Identified discrepancies between actual serial holdings and their Aleph, Connexion,and Docline holdings using MARC records
- Ø Learned ILL procedures using Illiad, and Ariel
- Ø Assisted in the processing of data and materials by preparing “box lists” from a prominent alum in preparation for a digital archives and researched background information for the project
- Ø Created Excel Spreadsheet (finding aids) to organize collection from box lists
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- ØGuest Lecturer at LIS 607 Health Sciences Sources & Services on “Using Ebsco to Search Medline” including highlights of information literacy at LIU 3/2011
- ØGuest Lecturer at LIS 514 Research Methods of Library Science on “Database Searching Techniques Using LISA and LIBLIT” and highlights of information literacy at LIU 2/2011
- ØTaught fellow students using PowerPoint presentations in Web 2.0 technology, database searching, sampling techniques and more in multiple classes
HIGHLIGHTS OF ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE & TRAINING
- ØCreated a Blog, “Musings of a Librarian” 4/11
- ØActively involved with Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn
- ØAttended ACRL Conference 3/11 and participated in workshops on teaching Information Literacy effectively in one shot and multiple lessons and more
- “50 Minutes? No Problem! Successful Strategies for one-Shot I. L. Instruction”
- “Admit it; You’re Boring in the Classroom: 10 or More Ways to Not to Be”
- ØAttended Webcasts:
- “Computing in the Cloud” 2/2011
- “Beyond the First Five Links: Using Google’s Left-Hand Panel to Reveal The Good Stuff Web” seminar 2/2011
- “Going Google”—Google Advanced Search tools 10/2010
- “Libraries & the Mobile Technology Landscape” 09/2010
- Ø Experience dealing with difficult employees, patients and patrons
- Ø Earned Certificate for National Library Of Medicine PUBMED Training Course 06/10
- ØFamiliar with “chat reference” and aggregators
- ØCreated pathfinders
- ØTrained new staff members in multiple locations and for ongoing training of managers and staff
- ØExcelled at Dale Carnegie course, “How to Win Friends and Influence People”
- ØSome Spanish and French understood and spoken
- ØWorked in the Health Science field with physicians, gaining knowledge of medical field along with a Certificate from Molloy College in Medical Billing/Coding
Medical Front Office Supervisor
- o Administration: Scheduling, recruitment, training, performance reviews and more for small staff across two locations.
- o Improved patient relations multifold by staffing changes and training.
- o Worked on financial projects including utilization of spreadsheets
- o Liaised with administrative assistant, technician-supervisor, and billing department
- o Updated Practice Policy and Procedure Manual
- o Attended seminars on management and employee law
- o Participated in brainstorming sessions for practice improvement
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND HONORS
- Beta Phi Mu (International Library Science Honor Society)
- American Library Association (ALA)
- Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
- NY Library Association (NYLA)
- Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
You can reach me at Ninadembin@gmail.com