Information Specialist & Library Media Specialist

Location:

Forest Park, IL

Salary:

75,000-85,000

Posted:

July 18, 2018

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Resume:

MS. PATRICIA K. ADJETEY

INFORMATION SPECIALIST & LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST

**** ****** *** *** ** Forest Park, Il 630-***-**** *******@*****.***

Summary

• Training: Encore, Sierra, MyPC, PaperCut, ADP, PCB, PubMed, Lexis Nexis and cataloguing and coding for Science, Medical, Law and Academic Libraries catalogues, databases and patent catalogues

• Proficient with Microsoft Office, eVSM, and AutoCAD, creating schematic symbols aligning to design guidelines for IPC, managing and updating library databases and catalogues

• Intermediate to expert in speaking and writing in English, Spanish, French and Italian

• Experience with SEO search terms, SQL, SketchUp, Microsoft Visio, C/C++ programming languages, Matlab and ProcessModel

• Skills in library management, budget management, collection development, reader’s advisory, curriculum, lesson and project planning; graphic design, SEO technology; pathfinders and databases curation; Information literacy; educational and corporate technology; grant writing; staff development; supervisor and administrative roles;

Education

University of Illinois at Chicago August 2007-July 2011

B.A & S in Teaching of English with Endorsement with Middle School GPA 3.2

Dominican University August 2011-January 2013

Master of Library and Information Science with focus in School Library Media Centers, Public, Academic and Special Libraries: Corporate, Medical, Law and Science Libraries GPA 3.6

Employment

Addison Public Library Addison, Illinois

Children’ Service Specialist February 2018- Present

•Responsible for creating reader’s advisory displays for infant to fifth grade patrons

•Participated and responsible for creating, assisting leading programs that include activity corner story time, crafts, school and daycare library outreach

•Responsible for keeping the children’s reference desk in order with printing, room & computer reservations, answering and assisting in reference questions and reader advisory from after school hours to close of the library.

•Responsible for informing and signing up summer reading for patrons from ages six-years old and older. Also responsible for informing and gathering contact information for patrons ages birth to five-years-old for 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten; a Addison Public Library initiative that encourages parents to consistently imply literacy in the daily routine to of their lives to encourage latent interest in information and development

Microsoft Bing Redmond, Washington

Brand Ambassador & Information Management Specialist July 2017-September 2017

• Responsible for coding and cataloguing the restaurants in the Chicago, Seattle, New York City and Los Angeles team with Microsoft Bing’s Bizbot product

• Participated and lead as assistant and team lead in daily meeting with managing supervisors, setting daily logistic and meeting goals, and meeting and going above and beyond daily completion numbers

Honeywell- UOP (PMT Library) Des Plaines, Illinois

Information Management Specialist April 2017- June 2017

• Responsible for back-end cataloguing and collection curation of paper to electronic catalogue in the PMT Library

• Catalogued and coded patents, models of chemical compounds and aerospace models that the engineers and scientists’ projects

• Create and consolidate the office collection as parts of the company transitions into another sector.

• Responsible to create databases, pathfinders and site lists as well as presentations and exhibits for the office staff of Honeywell as well as the new division company that is both being created and absolved within the Honeywell-UOP Company merge.

Maine Township High School District 207 Park Ridge, Illinois

District Substitute Teacher October 2016- March 2017

•Specialized in substitute coverage and instruction all curricular disciplines for the district

•Facilitated and assigned educating the “difficult class with sub” notation classes and able to work with the students and attain exceptional class management

Shiftgig & ShiftgigX Chicago, Illinois & New York City, New York

Brand Ambassador & Promotional Model September 2016- February 2017

• Responsible for directing and informing clients on behalf of brands and products at conferences, professional developments and meeting throughout the duration of the event

• Participated in creating a sense of familiarity and community in professional settings to encourage positive professional interaction among business deals

Freelance Union Member Chicago, IL; NYC, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Atlanta, GA; Seattle, WA

Fashion Buyer/Sales Rep September 2016- present

• Specializing in buying for Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles boutiques.

• Attending trunk shows nationally and internationally selecting brands and designers that will best fit a specific boutique: Tribeca: A Chicago Boutique, PRSVR, Sararose On Oak in Chicago, CD Network Fashion showroom in New York City and Pinky Rose Boutique in Los Angeles.

Forest Park School District 91 Forest Park, Illinois

Long Term Substitute English Teacher February 2016- May 2016

• Instructed from a weekly self- created lesson plans contingent on the needs of each group of students as assessed from surveys, objectives and individual student academic profiles.

• Utilized Google Classroom, Promethean Board, Chrome Books and several other educational technologies to help student aggregate skills that would incubate exposure to resources and tools that is being use across the school disciplines

• Organized a grade level field trip with the Science teacher to a local farm and apple orchard.

AIL & New York Life Chicago, Illinois

Sales Agent May 2015- January 2016

• Made sales of $6,000 in sales during the temporary license July 2017 October 2017 as an Illinois life and Health producer during first 90-days of insurance sales with American Income Life

• Lead in making immediate sales from leads within a week of beginning with New York Life in December 2015.

Chicago Public School Chicago, Illinois

K-8 School Librarian March 2015- September 2015

• Catalogued and curate a CPS school that did not have a library or librarian for a decade.

• Instructed and incubated twenty library and information science classes for academic and behavioral challenging students on Chicago South side.

• Catalogued and coded 3D printed models, light art installations and various medium both print, video audio and interactive art installations throughout the school

North Lawndale College Prep School Chicago, Illinois

Advanced Placement English Teacher & Librarian August 2013 – February 2015

• Working collaboratively with special education department to modify lesson plans and assignments for student with IEPs.

• Deadlines were highly monitored on the macro and micro scale being that each AP Senior and Junior student were researching for the duration of their academic school year.

• Provided feedback, as well as direction for research and reminding students and workers to abide by deadlines to have the research papers, scientific and social presentation,

• Prepared and revised applications for grants, scholarships and annual competition that awarded students $2.3 million for post-secondary education for the fall of 2014 & 2015

Chicago Public School Chicago, Illinois

7th ELA Teacher & K-8 Librarian October 2012- July 2013

• Created budgets for a class and school library that is modeled after the Reading and Writing Project.

• Lead and exemplified an academic environment for students are learning to be inquiry-based learners through leveled reading by their Lexile and writing aligning to the Common Core State Standards.

• Coordinated and budgeted for collection development, educational based fieldtrips, Scholastic book fair

• Awarded a proposal- based grant with the Dictionary Project that gave all the Ryerson Elementary 3rd grader a dictionary for their academic career that they used for reference material unit plan.

Banner Schools LLC. Chicago, Illinois

English Department Chair & Literacy Coordinator August 2011- October 2012

• Facilitated and lead intercampus English department meetings of 10 members; consisting of 6 teacher and four teacher assistants and collaborated with Sped team and revised and overviewed weekly lesson plans

• Instructed four preps of American, Survey, World and British literature to grades 9-12 at alternative school for students who have been suspended or expelled from Chicago Public Schools.

• Co-taught as team lead a prep of Human Relation to first year students at Banner North. Worked in a challenging environment with students who have a hard time following expectations in classroom work ethic and behavior.

• Coordinated with each campus team lead for various fieldtrips to Mexican History Museum, Chicago’s Broadway Theater University, College, Academic and public library visits/ fieldtrips.

NLLM- GMR at UIC Medical Library Chicago, Illinois

Library Assistant May 2009- January 2011

• Answered and directed phone calls that were received for the state assigned Medical Librarians of the GMR office

• Facilitated work requests for conferences, presentations and information table materials

• Maintained the filing system of invoices, taxes and

• Catalogued and coded items for the medical information for both print and electronic for PubMed and other medical and references materials provided by both GMR and the UIC Medical Library

References:

Mr. Byron Stingily

Principal at Banner School, Alternative School- School District 299

708-***-****

Ms. Mary O’Toole

Children's Librarian/Acting Branch Manager in Chicago Public Library- Lincoln Park Branch

312-***-****

Prof. Don Hamerly

Assistant Professor and Director, School Library Media Program at Dominican University

708-***-****

Ms. Cheridah Best,

Shiftgig Supervisor, Shiftgig