Service University

RESUME OF MONICA GHOSH

Librarian and South Asia Specialist

Home Page:

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~monicag/

E-mail:abqe77@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION MA: University of

Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI - Graduated, August 1999.

MILS: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI -

Graduated, April 1988.

School of Oriental and African Studies,

University of London, England - Coursework towards an MA completed, June

1986.

Mandarin Training Center, Taipei, Taiwan - Intensive language study, January-July

1985.

BA: University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI - Graduated,

December 1984.

EXPERIENCE

3/94-till present South

Asia Specialist. Manage South Asia materials in the Asia

Collection, which includes maintaining and developing materials received

on a cooperative acquistions program administered through the Library of

Congress, selecting materials in all formats and in several languages from

other sources, and designing, developing and providing access to

electronic information about South Asia. Provide professional reference

service for the Asia Collection in general, and specialized reference

service for South Asia related information. Provide a program of library

instruction for Asian Studies courses. Developed and implemented

large-scale, multi-level training for all library staff on various levels

of Internet use. Developed, designed, and maintain numerous web pages

for the Asia Collection.University of Hawaii, Hamilton

Library -

Asia Collection. Honolulu, Hawaii.

8/93-3/94 Reference

Librarian. Provide professional reference service, assist the

South Asia Specialist with collection development responsibilities, design

instructional materials and prov ide library instruction. University

of Hawaii, Hamilton Library - Asia Collection. Honolulu, Hawaii.

10/91-7/93 Reference

Librarian. Provide professional reference service, including

CD-ROM database and online catalog instruction, participate in library

instruction program, create instructional materials, and actively

participate in department committees. University of Hawaii, Hamilton

Library - Reference Center. Honolulu, Hawaii.

10/88-2/91 Library

Instruction Coordinator. Develop and implement large-scale

instruction program for undergraduates, write and edit instructional and

informational materials, collection development, provide reference service

including online database searching and CD-ROM database instruction, and

actively participate in training staff and patrons on the use of

the library's online catalog. Michigan State University, Main Library

- Information/Reference, East Lansing, Michigan.

7/87-5/88 Reference

Assistance in the social sciences and humanities. Using

reference sources, Geac, Innovacq, and RLIN databases, and the Public

Catalog. University of Michigan, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library -

Reference Department, Ann Arbor, MI.

9/87-12/87 Acquisitions

related responsibilities; receiving, coding, and cross-checking orders

using RLIN, Innovacq, the Public Catalog, and the Central Serials Records.

University of Michigan, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library - Acquisitions

Department, Ann Arbor, MI.

1/87-8/87 Research

Assistant to Joan C. Durrance, Associate Dean. Analyzed, coded,

collected, and tabulated data; set up and operated programs for research.

University of Michigan, School of Information and Library Studies, Ann

Arbor, MI.

PUBLICATIONS Book

Review of Our Feet Walk the Sky, in Threads,

Spring 1995. Threads is the University of Hawaii at Manoa Office

for Women's Research Newsletter, which is distributed to Women's Studies

Centers nationally and internationally.

CONFERENCE

PRESENTATIONS "Indexes, OPACs, and

Critical Thinking: Basic Library Skills for Students in a Developmental

Program." 18th National LOEX Library Instruction Conference. Ypsilanti,

Michigan. May 1990.

"Higher Education Collaboration:Planning for

Research and Content Area Disciplines." Hawaii Education and Research

Network. Honolulu, Hawaii. July 11, 1996.

Chaired a panel titled "South Asian Diaspora" at the Multi-Ethnic

Literatures of the U.S. (MELUS) Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii. April 19,

1997.

"Unpacking Diaspora to Sojourn with Chitra Divakaruni's Mistress of

Spices." Paper presented at the South Asian Women's Conference. Los

Angeles, California. September 20, 1997.

"Accenting the Accent as Humor in the South Asian American Diaspora."

Paper presented at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for

Asian American Studies. Honolulu, Hawaii. June 25, 1998.

"Historicizing the Chinese Diaspora to South Asia." Paper presented

at the International Conference for Asian Scholars. Nordwijkerhout,

Netherlands. June 26, 1998.

"What's So Funny About an Indian Accent?" Paper presented at the

Annual South Asia Conference. Madison, Wisconsin. October 25, 1998.

"Identity Shifts Across Time, Place, and Language."

Panel chair, discussant, and organizer at the 28th Annual Conference on

South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin. October 15, 1999.

"Issues and Concerns in Collection Building for the South Asian

Diaspora." Roundtable presentation at the Annual Meeting of the

Association for Asian Studies in San Diego, California. March 2000.

LANGUAGES Bengali - Native speaker

Hindi - Native speaker Chinese

(Mandarin) - Good conversation and elementary reading

Spanish - Good conversation and

basic reading French - Elementary

conversation and basic reading Japanese -

Three semesters in college

COMPUTER

SKILLS Mac, PC and Unix Environments

Word processing software - Claris Word, and MS-Word

Spreadsheets - Excel, and Claris

Communication software - Win_QVT, NCSA Telnet, and Smartcom

Presentational Software - Powerpoint, and Pagemaker

Internet Browsers - Netscape

Digital Photography - Quicktake, and Photoshop

Scanning software - Ofoto

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

AWARDS Graduate of Distinction; University of Hawaii, 1984

Academic Scholarship; Bernie L. and Beatrice Keywell Foundation,

1982-1984

ASSOCIATIONS &

SOCIETIES AAAS (Association for Asian American Studies) member since February,

1998.

AAS (Association for Asian Studies) member since April,

1994.

CONSALD (Council of South Asia Libraries and Documentation) member

since Fall 1994.

ALA member March 1987 - 1991. ACRL member

February

1989 - 1991.

REFERENCES Available upon request.

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