Experience librarian dedicated to providing equitable access to an expansive collection of diverse materials to the Princeton community.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Access Services
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY
04.2021 - Current
Manage, direct, and coordinate all Access Services operations related to the acquisitions, cataloging, and processing of print and digital materials
Oversee the development and maintenance of the library's collections in all formats by coordinating selection activities, standards, policies, and practices for collection development, monitoring the accuracy of bibliographic records, and preparing and presenting statistical and analytical reports
Collaborate with library administration and senior managers to implement policies and practices regarding the loan of library materials, and manage the interlibrary loan policies and procedures
Oversee the content and standards for the Library Management System (LMS) collection functions (acquisitions, accounting, vendor, order, and materials records for physical collections and e-content, serials, and interlibrary loans), and for content integrations into the discovery layer (research databases, e-content, and calendars), working conjointly with the IT Department to ensure the full functioning of both
Assume primary troubleshooting and ticketing responsibility for the collection functions of the LMS, and for the discovery layer, working closely with the IT department for backup as needed on issues related to web, mobile, security, and hardware
In conjunction with the IT Manager, develop training and instructional opportunities for the LMS and discovery layer tools
Oversee budget planning and preparation related to Access Services functions, communicate and negotiate effectively with vendors, and administer service agreements as necessary
Recommend and evaluate products and services that support the library catalog and borrowing functions, and identify new technologies that enable the library to streamline routines and improve user experience
Provide leadership, direction, and daily supervision to the Access Services department, including establishing departmental and individual goals that support the library’s strategic initiatives, guiding employee performance, communicating expectations, and providing the resources necessary for success
Serve as a member of the library senior management team.
Digital Collections Coordinator
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY
01.2018 - 03.2021
Ensured access to a premium selection of digital resources for information, education and entertainment purposes
Curated and customized the PPL Overdrive collection to cater to the local community’s reading preferences (600%+ circulation growth since 2014 inception)
Stewarded multiple budget lines that exceeded two thirds of the library’s total materials budget
Collaborated interdepartmentally with Access, IT, Lending and Youth staff to implement digital collection policies and programs
Evaluated new and emerging technologies and services to help identify quality collections that adhere to the library’s high standards for content, ease of use and customer service (eg SimplyE, Biblioboard, Odilo, 3M, Axis360 and Kanopy)
Negotiated and developed relationships with vendors to ensure optimal value in investments and smooth transitions during commercial changeovers.
Interim Head of Adult Services
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY
09.2018 - 12.2018
Provided daily supervision of adult services staff and operations including oversight of department budget, schedule and regular programming
Trained and evaluated new employees and interns
Participated in implementing improvement plans for deficient performance
Contributed to library senior management meetings and planning including staff development training and other interdepartmental projects.
Adult Services Librarian
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY
09.2003 - 08.2018
Worked as a team member to provide exceptional information and customer service to the Princeton community both in person and virtually
Prepared all public service desk schedules for the department consistently and responsibly
Developed adult DVD and audiobook CD collections to meet popular demand and establish purchasing policies that consider usage trends and future tech development.
Readers Advisory Librarian
WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
08.2000 - 05.2003
Primary duties included collection development, the coordination of readers’ advisory projects, services and training with county readers advisory team; supervision of the branch circulation department; participated in adult programming; reference service and library instruction.
Reference Librarian
ELIZABETH PUBLIC LIBRARY
09.1998 - 06.2000
Responsibilities included reference service, collection development, library instruction, and maintenance of the local history collection.
Education
Master of Science, Library Science -
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
Chapel Hill, NC
Bachelor of Arts in American History and Sociology cum laude -
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY
Lewisburg, PA
Study Abroad - International Studies
YONSEI UNIVERSITY
Seoul, South Korea
Timeline
Head of Access Services
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY
04.2021 - Current
Interim Head of Adult Services
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY
09.2018 - 12.2018
Digital Collections Coordinator
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY
01.2018 - 03.2021
Adult Services Librarian
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY
09.2003 - 08.2018
Readers Advisory Librarian
WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
08.2000 - 05.2003
Reference Librarian
ELIZABETH PUBLIC LIBRARY
09.1998 - 06.2000
Master of Science, Library Science -
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
Bachelor of Arts in American History and Sociology cum laude -
Head of Learning and Development Market Access and Patient Specialty Services at NovartisHead of Learning and Development Market Access and Patient Specialty Services at Novartis
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Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform
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