Assistant Information

YooJin Ha

abqjmn@r.postjobfree.com / http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~yha

** * *** *** #* Highland ParkNJ08904

c:315-***-**** / h: 732-***-****

Objective

To connect users with documents and information by designing

user-friendly systems which take into account language and cultural needs

Education

Ph.D Candidate,

School of Communication,

Information & Library Studies, Rutgers, The StateUniversity of New

Jersey, New

Brunswick. September, 2003 current

Masters

of Library Science, University at Buffalo,

The StateUniversity

of New York. February, 2003

Bachelor of Art in Library

and Information Science, YonseiUniversity, Seoul,

Republic of Korea. February, 1991

Work experience Reference Librarian in the Information Services department at the East Brunswick Public

Library. January 2006 - current Assistant in Inter-Library Loan operation for Rutgers University Libraries. July 2005 December 2005

Assistant to the grant team for a

USDA/CREES Higher Education Challenge Grant ($94,950): Virtual

Collaboratory for Food, Nutrition, & Business Information.

February 2005 December 2005

Data

managing assistant and Digital Imaging Assistant for the IMLS Grant

funded project, New Jersey Digital Highway Project and New Jersey

Environment Digital Library of

Scholarly CommutationCenter (SCC) in RutgersUniversity

Libraries. October 2003 July

2005Indexing of documents and imagesManaging web archives for the projectsUploading files to web

environment using DjVu program Scanning images, maps, and

documents using advanced technological tools

Representative at

COWBOY Korea, Seoul, Korea

(an international subsidiary corporation) Moved department to establish it

within COWBOY Japan

from JINHO Corporation, Korea. Aug.1999-Jul. 2001Managed

company and domestic general merchandise market Oversaw

importing of General Merchandise from Japan

to Korea

Director at JINHO

Corporation, Seoul, Korea. Helped create the establishment

of a separate subsidiary: the

Department of Provisions & General Merchandise of

Itochu

Corporation, Seoul

branch. Apr. 1997-Jul. 2001 Managed

and directed entire company and all employees

Managed Import and Export of Food

Senior Assistant at ITOCHU Corporation, SeoulBranch,

Korea.

(Japanese Company since 1858) Department of Provisions & General

Merchandise.

Apr. 1991-Apr. 1997 Senior manager supervision of Korean

food market Provided

reports concerning Korean food industry trends for overseas Itochu

branchesManaged

Import and Export of the Grains and Raw materials of Foods with US, Japan

and other major countries Managed

and provided major US + Australia

grain market information to domestic food industry Conduct

several projects of technical cooperation in manufacturing new products in

Korea

with major Japanese food companies

Special

Projects

Built

new database for index of Library

& Archival Security journal with Professor Dr. Christopher Brown-Syed,

University at Buffalo,

May-August 2002

Designed Index system and indexing for Buffalo Medical Journal with faculty member Dr. Corinne J rgensen and the

Health Science Library in

University at Buffalo, September-December

2001

Intern at YonseiUniversity

Central Library, Classification Department. October 1990-April 1991Member

of team which developed the Library Computer Automatic System Cataloger with responsibility

for book classification using Dewey Decimal systemParticipated in collection

development for rare books Reference desk intern

performing reference duties

Teaching experience

Assistant instructor

MLIS classes at RutgersUniversity 511 Research Methods (Spring and Summer,

2005): Taught graduate classes and assisted in organizing syllabus. 532 Collection Development and Management

(Summer 2005 and 2006):

Assisted and helped teach graduate course

Teaching Assistant

for an undergraduate class, Management of Technological Organizations in the Information

Technology and Informatics

department at RutgersUniversity.

January May 2006 Graded students works and advised studentsAssisted professors and helped organize the class

Teaching

Assistant for Dr. Young-Mee Yu Cho in Korean language, Department of Asian

Languages and Culture in RutgersUniversity.

September-December 2004 Instructed

students in Korean and advised

studentsAssisted professors and helped

organize the class

Paper presentation (refereed)

Ha, Y. (2006, June). Users Information Seeking Behaviors WithCross Language Information

Retrieval Systems.Paper presented at the

Library Research

Roundtable session in the 2006 American Library

Association, New

Orleans, LA

Ha, Y.

& O Connor, D. (2005, September). A

Global Reach for the Information Disciplines. Paper accepted for

presentation at i-Conference,

PennStateUniversity.

Ha, Y. (2005, January).Beyond Language Barriers: Survey of current

LIS Education and Online library system. Paper presented at the

Association for Library and

Information Science Education Conference, Boston, MA.

Served as a paper

reviewer for i-Conference, August 2005.

Research PapersA Proposal to Study CLIR (Cross-Language Information Retrieval) system Users Information Seeking

Behavior (02/2006)CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) Language and Linguistics Considerations

When Searching Online Database (02/2006)System evaluation: WorldCat/OCLC (05/2005)Cognitive map in indexing (12/2004)Literature Review of CLIR

(Cross-Language Information Retrieval) (05/2004)Focus-group Interview: user

study for CLIR System (04/2004)To build a Superior

Multilingual Information Retrieval system

(12/2003)Introduction to Korean

Cataloging System and difficulties in searching for Korean Material.

(04/2002)Information Organization:

Philosophy of Social Science Book Collection. (04/2002)Web Bibliography: Study Guide

for Foreign Student admission to USAUniversity.

(04/2002)The Librarian Role under the

Digital Age. (12/2001)

Special Skills

Library SkillsCataloging

and Indexing: MARC, DDC, CINDEX Online Database Research:

DIALOG, WorldCat, Lexis/Nexis

etc

Languages: Korean / Japanese / English Acquired

Japanese Language Proficiency Test 1st level certificate Good at reading, writing and

speaking Japanese

Computer Skills

Set up and install basic computer work

environment

Web Design Tools: MS FrontPage, HTML Web coding

Basic

Computer Networking: Small LAN set up

Basic

Database Creation (MS Access)

Photoshop, Scanning

Profession

membershipsAssociation for Library and

Information Science Education Since 2004--American Society for

Information Science and Technology Since 2004--American Library Association

2001--

References

Daniel O. O'Connor, Associate Professor

Department of Library and Information Science

School of Communication, Information

and Library Studies

The Rutgers, The State University of

New Jersey

CIL-309, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick,

NJ08901

Phone: 732-***-**** ext. 8219

Email: abqjmn@r.postjobfree.com

Ann Grice, Reference librarian

Information Services department of the East

Brunswick Public Library

2 Jean Walling Civic Center, East

Brunswick, NJ08816

Phone: 732-***-****

Email: abqjmn@r.postjobfree.com

Doug Poswencyk, Director

Somerset County Library System, Watchung Public Library

12 Stirling Rd.Watchung,

NJ07069

Phone: 908-***-****

Email: abqjmn@r.postjobfree.com

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