Vita

Alevtina Verbovetskaya

Experience

Adjunct Librarian, February 2010 – Present
Reference, College of Staten Island Library, Staten Island, NY

  • Assist patrons — in person and by phone — with information and research requests at reference desk
  • Answer chat reference questions
  • Create library handbook (online and print) for new employees

Adjunct Librarian, January 2009 – Present
Information Services, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY

  • Participate in content planning for Library Online Orientation Project (LOOP)
  • Design, develop, and revise basic LOOP website
  • Gather student feedback on initial LOOP website
  • Apply student assessment information to additional LOOP development
  • Design and develop interactive online tutorials for LOOP
  • Liaise with Library’s web designer in constructing LOOP website

College Assistant, January 2008 – January 2010
Information Services, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY

  • Assisted patrons — in person, by phone, and via email — with information and research requests at reference desk
  • Answered chat reference questions via QuestionPoint.org
  • Collaborated with Copyright Committee in revamping Library’s copyright web page
  • Created new web pages for Library’s website via in-house content management system, Web Information Management System (WIMS)
  • Maintained Library’s resources through WIMS

Intern, January 2008 – June 2008
Information Services, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY

  • Maintained Library’s web presence on MySpace
  • Established Library’s presence on Facebook, Pageflakes, etc.
  • Created bookmark listing Library information
  • Acted as “Wiki Master” for Library-wide Wiki
  • Developed book-related Facebook application

Junior Programmer, September 2007 – December 2007
Live Gamer, ReachEverywhere, New York, NY

  • Learned C# 2005 while assisting coworkers with tasks
  • Worked with SQL databases to re-format and re-organize existing SQL code

Intern, February 2007 – May 2007
Simulation Lab, MTA New York City Transit, Brooklyn, NY

  • Mastered the Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 language over the course of two months
  • Gained hands-on experience working with large databases using Microsoft Access
  • Participated in the creation of an educational program to be used by thousands of people

Education

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
MLIS, School of Communication and Information, 2010

Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY
BS, Department of Computer & Information Science, 2008

Awards & Accomplishments

Recipient, Gloria M. Yodowitz Malkin Award in Library Science, 2008
Recipient, Brooklyn College Presidential & Foundation Scholarship, 2004 – 2008
Recipient, Peter F. Vallone Academic Scholarship, 2004 – 2008

Presentations

Verbovetskaya, A. (2009, June 18). Throwing students for a LOOP: Designing, developing, and testing an online library tutorial [Handout, Student Questionnaire]. Paper presented at the triannual meeting of the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) Bibliographic Instruction Special Interest Group, New York, NY.

Verbovetskaya, A. & Gurgov, V. (2009, June 3). WIMS: A database-driven solution for managing online resources [Handout, Slides]. Discussion at LibCampNYC 2009, Brooklyn, NY.

Professional Development

LACUNY Instruction Committee, Critical Pedagogy and Library Instruction
Brooklyn College, CUNY, May 2010

CUNY LILAC, Creditable Strategies: The Library Course in the CUNY Curriculum
Graduate Center, CUNY, February 2010

LACUNY Instruction Committee, Critical Thinking in the Online Environment: Maximizing Learning
York College, CUNY, March 2009

LACUNY Junior Faculty Research Roundtable, Institutional Review Board Workshop
Graduate Center, CUNY, February 2009

LACUNY Institute, Greening Libraries, Greener Communities
Bronx Library Center, NYPL, October 2008

LACUNY Dialogues, Privacy & Libraries: Where are We Now?
Lehman College, CUNY, January 2008

Memberships

Member, Library Association of the City University of New York, 2009 – Present
Member, Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), 2009 – Present
Member, Association of College and Research Libraries of New York, 2009 – Present
Member, American Library Association, 2008 – Present

Languages

English (fluent)
Russian (moderate)

Technical Proficiencies

Office

  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • OpenOffice.org

Internet

  • Web Browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome)
  • FTP Clients
  • Chat and Instant Messaging Programs

Collaborative Information Management

  • Blogs
  • Wikis
  • Content Management Systems

Web Development

  • HTML
  • PHP
  • CSS

Software Development

  • Operating Systems
    • Windows
    • UNIX
  • Languages
    • C
    • C++
    • C#
    • Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
    • Java
  • Editors & Compilers
    • Bloodshed Dev-C++
    • NetBeans IDE
    • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

Mobile Devices

  • Apple iPhone
  • RIM BlackBerry
  • T-Mobile G1

Social Networking

  • Delicious
  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Last.fm
  • LibraryThing
  • LinkedIn
  • LiveJournal
  • Meetup.com
  • MySpace
  • Tumblr
  • Twitter
  • Yelp
  • YouTube

References

Available upon request

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