Recent MLS (2006) and former engineer with experience in reference, collection development, and project management.
LIBRARY EXPERIENCE
Assistant Reference Librarian
Simmons Graduate School of Social Work, Boston, MA.
- Provided reference and BI to students and professors.
- Worked solo at a remote site from main library.
- Generated a thirty-page white paper on The Ideological Range of Think Tanks Useful to Social Workers Developing Policy – this was requested by a professor teaching a policy course. He found it so useful that he published it on the course’s permanent WebCT page.
- Commended and thanked by a professor for the help given to her students who needed information on the complex Patriot Act.
- Wrote a weekly column for the Social Work school newsletter on how to use new databases.
- Created a blog originally to deliver search results to a professor but which became a place to leave status information for fellow workers and then a discussion on a free and widely used resource for social workers. http://socialworklibrarian.blogspot.com
Research Librarian
Copyright Clearance Center, Danvers, MA.
One of the top copyrights licensing firms in the world.
- Member of temporary team to verify bibliographic information and research market value data for CCCs’ thousands of licensed print works.
- Helped CCC realize need to prioritize these works given the volume and imminent deadline.
- Significantly increased productivity in verification by alerting CCC to certain web resources and how to use them most effectively.
- Introduced verification and productivity measures that are being used to better predict future labor needs for this type of project.
- Trained incoming personnel.
TEACHING & TRAINING EXPERIENCE
- Trained co-workers in extracting the most info in the least amount of time from databases and other sources
Bibliographic Instruction for Social Science Grad students and professors
- Calculus teaching assistant and workshop instructor
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Science tutor for secondary students
- Middle school teacher and math curriculum advisor
- Elementary school teacher

Winifred.Flint@gmail.com