Connie Binder, MLS
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Résumé

Employment History
 Presentations
 Education
 Professional Memberships
 

Employment History
Freelance Indexer, 1998-present
  • Back-of-the-book indexing (288 books indexed)
  • CD-ROM indexing (5 titles)
  • Journal indexing (5 titles, over 200 issues)
    • Brief summary records for each article including bibliographic information and subject headings
    • Detailed records in back-of-the-book style providing in-depth access

Grants Management Database Consultant, 1991-present
  • Databases
    • Riverside Grants
    • Award
    • GIFTS for Windows
    • Customized in-house databases
  • Projects
    • Develop specifications for enhancements and new software projects
    • Review proposals from other vendors
    • Database administration
    • Report writing
    • Code table development and maintenance
    • Code assignment
    • Duplicate record search and consolidation
    • Database conversion, including field mapping
    • Procedures manuals
    • File naming conventions
    • Database editing and quality control
    • Verification and addition of geographic coordinates to database records for mapping project

Freelance Librarian, 1994-1999
  • Systems
    • NOTIS
    • Voyager
    • Mitinet
    • OCLC
  • Projects
    • Original and copy cataloging in MARC format
    • Assigned Library of Congress Subject Headings
    • Assigned local call number
    • Local subject heading overhaul – edited thesaurus, eliminated duplicate and obsolete headings, provided consistency, updated terminology, corrected errors

Contract Librarian/Database Administrator, 1989-1991
National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration
  • Supervised the development and data entry of a scientific research grants database
  • Analyzed over 5000 grant files
  • Assigned Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Performed name and subject authority work in OCLC and NOTIS

Technical Services Clerk, 1986-1988
Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
  • Serials control
  • Original and copy cataloging of periodicals, including state government documents, in PALS library system
  • Assigned Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Performed name and subject authority work in OCLC

 
Education
 
MLS, Library and Information Services, 1989
University of Maryland, College Park
Beta Phi Mu National Honor Society
Coursework in advanced cataloging, database structure and design
 
BA, Anthropology, 1982
Michigan State University
Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society
Bioscience emphasis
Women’s Studies Thematic


Presentations
 
May 2010
American Society for Indexing Annual Conference
"Streamlining Our Work Processes" panel
 
April 2010
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
School of Library and Information Studies
Indexing and Abstracting course
"Best Practices in Back-of-the-Book Indexing" webinar

May 2006
American Society for Indexing Annual Conference
"The Virtual Office: Working Away from Home and on the Road" panel

November 2002
MicroEdge Annual Conference (for users of GIFTS grants management software)
"Publicizing Your Good Works"
"External Reviewers: Managing the Process"

 
Professional Memberships
 
American Society for Indexing
   Order of the Kohlrabi Award, 2009
   Member, Gardening/Environmental Studies Special Interest Group
   Member, History/Archaeology Special Interest Group
   Member, Sports-Fitness Indexing Special Interest Group
   Chair (2009-2010), Mid- and South-Atlantic Chapter
  


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