M.L.S. Rare Books and Special Collections, Long Island University, May 2004.

B.A. History, Purchase College at S.U.N.Y., May 1995.

Current Positions

Senior Librarian for Special Collections, Reference, and Instruction
The Center for Jewish History (March 2011-present)

Supervising all aspects of public services and access for a five-partner special collections consortium; creation and implementation of policy to standardize reference service across the five institutions; customization, implementation, and staff training for roll-out of Aeon software for circulation, patron information, and collection management purposes; bibliographic instruction in both informal and classroom settings, including high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, and the general public; supervising and providing reference to researchers, via in-person reference interviews, phone, chat, and email; supervising the reference services staff (full-time staff, part-time staff, and interns) including hiring, training, scheduling, and mentoring; supervising the policy and operations of three reading rooms; initiating and managing digital projects, including a map of looted libraries from WWII and a project curating user-generated digital content; writing about book, archival, and manuscript collections for the CJH blog; compiling statistics and reports for the partner organizations; writing libguides and other reference tools for the collections; supervising special projects, such as reading room weeding, inventories and bar-coding of the reference collection; participating on various internal committees, including the Collection Development committee, the Access and New Technology committee, and chairing the Shared Services committee; representing CJH at professional conferences and events.

Adjunct Instructor

Palmer School of Library and Information Science, LIU (June 2015-present)

Designed and taught the inaugural version of a special topics class for the “Rare Book and Special Collections” academic track. Class title: “Reference and Instruction in Special Collections”, and covered all aspects of reference provision, reference service design, user experience design, and instructional models for archivists and special collections librarians.