Stephanie Osorio
Burbank
Summary
Ambitious individual with strong organizational and multitasking skills, as well as an aptitude for coordinating programs. Ready to apply knowledge and skills to any challenge in the department.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Librarian, Public Interest & Legal Education
LA Law Library
Los Angeles
02.2022 - Current
- Assist with coordinating programming at the library, including the Lawyers in the Library program and Pro Bono Week programming.
- Create and maintain resource lists for the Ask a Lawyer sessions.
- Assisted with training new staff members.
- Provided reference assistance to patrons through online resources, databases, and print materials.
Library Associate, Public Interest
LA Law Library
Los Angeles
04.2018 - 02.2022
- Assists with coordinating events in-person and by Zoom for the public.
- Updates and stocks the self-help wall with materials for patrons.
- Assists in updating the library's resource lists.
- Provides public counter service to patrons.
- Assists with translating in Spanish at the public counter and during phone consultations for the library's Lawyers in the Library program.
Resource Employee
USC Libraries
Los Angeles
02.2018 - 04.2018
- Work with Alma and Primo in numerous situations including editing fund codes for the library's items, testing Primo direct linkage using Google Scholar and Pubmed.
- Assist in inventorying the library's e-resources.
- Reviewing the Primo February and May enhancements and writing a brief email highlighting the changes to be sent to the library's employees.
- Researched and assisted in writing a grant for USC Libraries to obtain Amazon's Alexa for its libraries.
Program Support Assistant Intern
Library of Congress
Washington
08.2017 - 12.2017
- Assist with administrative tasks for the Library's Internship and Fellowship Program (IFP) such as setting up events.
- The events focused on weekly lunch enrichment sessions for the other interns in the HACU program.
- Successfully administered tours at the Hispanic Reading Room and Law Library for the other HACU interns.
- Assisted with writing survey reports.
- Updated the listings for the available internships, fellowships, volunteer, and resident opportunities available at the Library.
- Organize IFP's internal documents.
- The internship was sponsored through the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities National Internship Program (HACU).
Student Intern
USC Norris Medical Library
Los Angeles
11.2016 - 08.2017
- Assisted in evaluation and analysis of search engines being used by USC medical students and medical faculty.
- Have developed search capability in Ovid, PubMed, Embase, and SCOPUS databases while completing this research.
Metadata Assistant
USC Norris Medical Library
Los Angeles
02.2016 - 12.2016
- Assisted in preparing pathology slide collection for digitization, including creation of spreadsheet to organize slides for digitization process.
- Researched appropriate medical descriptors then labeled slides with relevant MeSH (medical descriptors) tags.
Clerk
Levy, Ford, and Wallach
Los Angeles
06.2014 - 01.2016
- Digitized and input medical files into company's computerized records system; distributed copies to key stakeholders.
- Performed additional legal work as requested, including communicating on behalf of clients who received claim denials.
Education
Masters of Management - Library and Information Science
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA01.2017
Bachelor of Arts - History; French minor
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA01.2011
Skills
- Language Skills: Fluent in writing, speaking, and reading Spanish
- Legal Databases Skills: Westlaw, Lexis, CEB, HeinOnline, EBSCO
- Microsoft Skills: PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, OneDrive
- Social Media Skills: LinkedIn, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram
- Public Interest & Legal Education Skills: adaptability, flexibility, multitasker, organized, works well with other in department and other departments as well as work independently
References
Available upon request.
Publications
Rivero, E., Hernandez, M., Osorio, S., Villareal, V., Dispatches from the field of prison librarianship., Reference librarianship & justice: History, practice & ptraxis., K. Adler, I. Beilin, & E. Tewell, Library Juice Press, 08/01/18
Timeline
Librarian, Public Interest & Legal Education
LA Law Library
02.2022 - Current
Library Associate, Public Interest
LA Law Library
04.2018 - 02.2022
Resource Employee
USC Libraries
02.2018 - 04.2018
Program Support Assistant Intern
Library of Congress
08.2017 - 12.2017
Student Intern
USC Norris Medical Library
11.2016 - 08.2017
Metadata Assistant
USC Norris Medical Library
02.2016 - 12.2016
Clerk
Levy, Ford, and Wallach
06.2014 - 01.2016
Masters of Management - Library and Information Science
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
Bachelor of Arts - History; French minor
Pennsylvania State University