Marie Peterson
uffalo, NY 14214
E-mail: mpeterso@buffalo.edu
Employment:
University at Buffalo – University Libraries – Central Technical Services/Acquisitions
Instructional Support Associate, Print Periodicals and Continuations 1/05 – Present
Receipts, claims, updates of serials, periodicals, and microforms
Training student workers.
Instructional Support Associate, Bibliographic Control 12/01 – 12/04
- Receipts, copy cataloging, claims, orders, catalog maintenance, “brief” original cataloging for print and electronic materials for six of the eight libraries at UB
- Special projects, training student workers, created and updated web pages for the CTS website
Clerk I, Periodicals 11/98 – 12/01
- Receipts, claims, binding, updated catalog holdings (ANSI and MARC Holdings formats) of periodicals, serials, government documents, and microforms
- Imported OCLC records and created order, copy holdings, and item records
- Maintained statistics.
Westwood-Squibb Pharmaceuticals/Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Library
Library Assistant II 5/95 - 11/98
In addition to Library Assistant I responsibilities: book acquisitions; wrote job protocols for library personnel; compiled library statistics manually and from automated system.
Library Assistant I 5/93 - 5/95
Ordering, receipt tracking, billing and delivery of reprints and interlibrary loans via OCLC, Docline, and other automated systems. Serials check-in, routing, and circulation via automated systems. Assist with collection inventory, space planning and rearranging,
and binding of periodicals using a computer bindery program.
Proprietary Information Clerk 5/92 - 5/93
Maintained archival database; created a more efficient filing system for new and current FDA drug applications; was responsible for completion of outline/procedures for Clinical documentation filing system, and maintenance, tracking, filing, storage, and retrieval of case report forms; issued laboratory notebooks to research staff.
Consumer Affairs Assistant 2/91 - 5/92
Handled consumer inquiries, complaints, and information and product requests; gathered information from Clinical Research, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, Research Library, and other departments; reported on adverse reactions; maintained database.
Education:
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Master of Library Science – last semester; February 2007 degree conferral -- among courses (see attached page for complete coursework):
- Reference, Collection Development, Government Information, Advanced Cataloging, Digital Libraries
- Practica in technical services and in a small academic library
SUNY Empire State College
Bachelor of Arts in Art and Literature
SUNY Buffalo State College
- State University College at Buffalo -- Art Education; two years completed.
- Additional Education
- Classes and workshops:
- computer applications and programs – including MS Office programs, web
- management topics
- library research tools – including OCLC, databases, deep web searching, familiarity with standards such as AACR2
- customer relationships, quality management, and team building – including TQM, Covey practices, High Performance Work Teams
- Lectures, workshops and seminars:
- art and architectural topics – works of Frank Lloyd Wright and his contemporaries, and the Arts and Crafts Movements (British, American, European) are special interests
- fine and craft arts – including sign painting
Languages:
- Greek (Modern) - read, speak, write with moderate fluency
- French – working knowledge (read, write, some conversation)
Presentations:
- By the People, for the People: Posters from the WPA. Poster Session. 2005 NYLA Conference
- COPE III: ALA & Support Staff Working Together. Poster Session. 2004 New York Library Association (NYLA) Conference (co-presenter)
Awards:
- Professional Development Grant from WNYLRC to attend ALA’s 3rd Congress on Professional Education: Focus on Support Staff (COPE 3), as a selected delegate to the congress
Professional Affiliation, Membership, and Community Service:
University Libraries Committees
- Executive Committees Steering Group (Libraries)
- Professional Executive Committee (PEC) Elections Committee, Chair (Libraries)
University at Buffalo Committees
- Professional Staff Senator -- 2004/2005; 2005/2006; 2006/2007
- Professional Staff Senate (PSS) Executive Committee – 2004/2005; 2005/2006
- PSS Web Site Committee – 2003 through 2004
- PSS Wellness Committee -- 2004/2005
- PSS Newsletter Committee -- 2005/2006; 2006/2007
Professional Library Committees
- New York State Library Assistants Association (NYSLAA) – volunteer (conference logos for the 1995, 2000 and 2004 conferences)
- NYSLAA member since 1994
- NYSLAA regional representative -- 1999 through present
- Western New York Library Assistants (WNYLA) Planning Group – member since 1994; co-convener – 1999 through 2004
- Western New York Library Resource Council (WNYLRC): “Library Assistants News” newsletter column since 2003; logo for the 1998 WNYLRC conference
- American Library Association (ALA), ALCTS, LSSIRT Roundtable member
- New York Library Association (NYLA) member
- Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), WNY/O Chapter member
Community Service
- Neighborhood task force for quality-of-life issues.
- Volunteer at the Darwin Martin House Complex; docent and chaperone for tours
- Volunteer at fund raisers for the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site, the SPCA, and others.
Coursework for M.L.S. degree:
LIS 505 Introduction to
LIS 506 Introduction to
LIS 518 Reference
LIS 571 Organization and Control of Recorded Information
LIS 574 Organization and Control of Recorded Information II (Advanced Cataloging)
LIS 581 Management of Libraries and Information Centers
LIS 567 Government Information
LIS 534 Resources and Services for Children
LIS 5 Collection Development
LIS 563 Digital Libraries
LIS 526 Cataloging/Metadata Practicum in Central Technical Services, University at Buffalo
LIS 526 Practicum at the Rachel R. Savarino Library at Trocaire College; reference, circulation, cataloging, collection assessment, Surgical Technical pathfinder
