Vita
Alevtina Verbovetskaya
Experience
Instructional Technologies Librarian [Substitute], August 2010 – Present
Information Literacy and Assessment, Lehman College, Bronx, NY
Adjunct Librarian, January 2009 – August 2010
Information Services, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY
Adjunct Librarian, February 2010 – July 2010
Reference, College of Staten Island Library, Staten Island, NY
College Assistant, January 2008 – January 2010
Information Services, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY
Intern, January 2008 – June 2008
Information Services, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY
Junior Programmer, September 2007 – December 2007
Live Gamer, ReachEverywhere, New York, NY
Intern, February 2007 – May 2007
Simulation Lab, MTA New York City Transit, Brooklyn, NY
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
- Flickr
- Last.fm
- LibraryThing
- LiveJournal
- Meetup.com
- MySpace
- Tumblr
- Yelp
- YouTube