Resume

Megan Bennett

meganp.bennett@gmail.com

Education

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Master of Arts in Library and Information Studies, May 2017.

Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.

Bachelor of Arts in French and Global Studies, cum laude, May 2012.

Professional experience

Assistant Professor, Research & Instructional Services Librarian, Gorgas Information Services, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. August 2017-August 2018.

• Teach library instruction and information literacy instruction sessions to students in the First Year Writing Program
• Teach library instruction and information literacy instruction sessions to students in my liaison areas of the Modern and Critical Languages, which includes languages with majors or minors (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish), and languages without majors or minors (Arabic, and courses offered by the Critical Languages Center, which include Korean and Modern Greek).
• Teach resource evaluation to 300-level and 400-level undergraduate and graduate-level languages classes.
• Create, update, and maintain digital learning objects relating to my liaison areas, including Library Research Guides and instructional videos.
• Provide library outreach to my liaison departments by way of face-to-face meetings and electronic communications.
• Provide library outreach to students at Student Support Services.
• Work with my liaison areas to make better use library collections and resources.
• Participate in collection development and management for my liaison areas.
• Participate in professional development within my department.

Testing Coordinator, Paisley IB Magnet School, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. August 2016-current.

• Coordinate all state and district testing for grades six through ten.
• Develop test administration plan for entire school for each assessment.
• Organize testing schedules for students with accommodations.
• Help with curriculum development by studying data for student growth.
• Train coworkers in test administration and procedures.

Independent study in archiving historical photographs, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Spring 2017.

• Archived, preserved, organized, digitized, and preserved artifacts from a historical photograph collection.

Practicum in special collections and archives, Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Summer 2016.

• Organized photographs in a historic collection, researched names and events, assigned provisional/circa dates, and added information into a spreadsheet, which would eventually become a LibGuide for the collection.

Peace Corps Response Volunteer, secondary education: teacher of English as a Foreign Language, Oleksandriya Gymnasium/Boarding School, Oleksandriya, Kirovograd Oblast, Ukraine. June 2015-June 2016.

• July-August 2015: Camp leader at Camp OHALOW, a PEPFAR-sponsored camp for children born with H.I.V.
• October 2015-June 2016: created and led an English Club for ninth-form students (1 hour per week).
• January 2016-April 2016: Member of the National Olympiad Committee Working Group; created materials for the National English Olympiad.
•  Spring 2016: Write On! Competition Ukraine Kirovograd Oblast Coordinator
• Created and led an English Club for 9th Form students (1 hour per week).
• February 2016: Judged the Kirovograd Oblast English Olympiad.
• March 2016: Judged the National English Olympiad.
• February 2016-May 2016: Created and led an English Club for teachers (2+ hours per week).
• Unofficial mentor for incoming Peace Corps Trainees via Facebook groups.

Graduate Assistant with the department of Library and Information Studies, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina. August 2014-May 2015.

• Moderated online chats during combination main campus/distance learning classes for several of my professors, which helped to insure that questions were answered and comments were addressed.
• Assisted professors during planning, recording, and follow-ups from conferences held on campus.
• November 2014: Assisted with the 6th annual iDEAL Summit.

Substitute teacher, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. April 2014-June 2014.

• Substitute taught at all K-12 grade levels, including an ESL assistant at an elementary school, a French teacher at a middle school, and a social studies teacher at a high school.
• Created lesson plans and key terminology and grammar, in preparation for the French exams at the end of the year.

Peace Corps Volunteer, secondary education; teacher of English as a Foreign Language, Oleksandriya Gymnasium/Boarding School, Oleksandriya, Kirovograd Oblast, Ukraine.  September 2013-April 2014.

• Created and led a Teachers’ English Conversation Club, focusing on survival or travel English.
• February 2014: Tutored 2 students competing in the Kirovograd Oblast English Olympiad.
• February 2014: Judged the Kirovograd Oblast English Olympiad; helped judged specifically the writing and speaking sections.
• February 2014: Judged Ukraine’s English Speaking Union’s National Public Speaking Competition.
• Evacuated along with entire Peace Corps Ukraine during civil unrest in 2014

Library Volunteer, Reynolda Manor Public Library, Forsyth County Public Library, North Carolina. July 2012-September 2013.

Literacy Tutor, YMCA Literacy Initiative, YMCA of Northwestern North Carolina, North Carolina. March 2013-September 2013.

ESL Teaching Assistant, Forsyth Technical Community College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Fall 2012.

Student Assistant for Student Union, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Summer 2012

• Worked reception desk as the primary guide to campus
• Worked the main campus switchboard
• Processed cash and credit card transactions for tickets to local attractions

Student Assistant for Graduate Business Admissions, Schools of Business, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Summer 2010.

• Stamped, scanned, and entered transcripts
• Mailed acceptance letters and other mailings
• Organized and counted supplies
• Worked the reception desk.

Student Assistant for Resource Management, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Summer 2009, Summer 2008.

• Recycled old books
• Organized shipments of books and materials
• Researched missing books, ensured that list of missing books was complete and up-to-date.

Student Assistant for Circulation, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Summer 2007.

• Checked in, sorted, and re-shelved books
• Worked the exit desk
• Boxed and moved the Chemistry Department’s library.

Published materials

Library Research Guides: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Classical Greek, Modern Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Classical Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and ProQuest RefWorks

How to Import Citations into RefWorks from Scout

Basic Searching in JSTOR at The University of Alabama Libraries

Advanced Searching in JSTOR at The University of Alabama Libraries

Browsing in JSTOR at The University of Alabama Libraries

Seminar in Special Collections blog about Dr. Billy Hamilton

Independent Study Omeka Collection on the Irene W. Coyne Photo Archive


Independent Study Blog of the Irene W. Coyne Photo Archive

Presentations

August 2018: Negotiated Learning in the One-Shot Library Instruction Session, 2018 UA System Library Instruction UnConference, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

February 2018: Mango Languages: An Interactive Demo, Faculty Technology Showcase, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

May 2017: Peace Corps Ukraine, Elon Elementary School, Elon, North Carolina.

April 2017: Creating a Special Collection: The Irene W. Coyne Photo Archive, Graduate Research and Creativity Expo, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.

January 2016: Sites to See in the United States, 2016 Week of English, Oleksandriya Gymnasium/Boarding School, Oleksandriya, Kirovograd Oblast, Ukraine.

September 2015: Murphy to Manteo: North Carolina, Morning Parade, Oleksandriya Gymnasium/Boarding School, Oleksandriya, Kirovograd Oblast, Ukraine.

July 2015: Murphy to Manteo: North Carolina, America House Tech Camp, America House, Kyiv, Ukraine.

April 2015: Guest lecture, Libraries and Autism, department of Library and Information Studies, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.

April 2015: Libraries and Autism, Graduate Research and Creativity Expo, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.

April 2012: The Progression of Social Networking: 1985 – ????, The 15th Annual Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.

Skills

French Language – superior proficiency in both spoken and written French Russian Language – intermediate proficiency in spoken Russian.
Familiar with NVivo.
Familiar with Camtasia Studio for Mac and Windows.
Familiar with the Google Suite.
Familiar with the Microsoft Suite.
Familiar with Adobe Audition, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Lightroom, and Adobe Acrobat. Familiar with various online course programs, including Banner, Blackboard, Canvas, Haiku, and WebEx.
Familiar with productivity and data entry applications on Windows and Mac platforms. Experience with moderating online chats.
Experience copy-editing.

Conferences Attended

• Grow, Evolve, Lead: 2018 Entrepreneurial Librarian Conference (October 2018) 
• 2018 UA System Library Instruction Unconference (August 2018)
• Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) 2018 Virtual Conference (July 2018) ASERL/ARL Library Liaison Institute (April 2018)
• Empirical Librarians Conference 2018 (February 2018)
• 2017 UA System Library Instruction Unconference (August 2017)
• 6th annual iDEAL Summit (November 2014)
• Take Risks, Embrace Change: The 2014 Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians (October 2014)

Professional Development Seminars, Webinars, and Workshops

• NCLA Special Collections Round Table -- Copyright for Digital Collections (September 2018)
• Emerging Library Trends in the FYE—New Ideas for Impacting Student Success (June 2018) The World in Our Classrooms - Inclusive Classroom Panel (April 2018)
• How People With Disabilities Access Digital Content (April 2018)
• Storied Identities: Critical Autoethnographies on Race, Gender, Sex, and Motherhood (March 2018)
• "What is new about the model publishing contract for long-form digital scholarship? (February 2018)
• Camtasia Workshops (December 2017)
• Let’s Talk: Campus Conversations about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (November 2017) Including inclusivity: It's not just for diversity classes (November 2017)
• "What is new about the model publishing contract for long-form digital scholarship? (October 2017)
• NVivo Workshop (October 2017)
• Web Accessibility for Content Creators (October 2017)
• Introduction to Metadata For Digital Humanities: #What Can Metadata Do For Your Humanities Research? (October 2017)
• Safe Zone Training (August 2017)

Memberships

American Library Association
Association of College and Research Libraries
North Carolina Library Association
Society of North Carolina Archivists
Alabama Association of College and Research Libraries National Peace Corps Association