GAIL B. ROY

 

Waterbury  CT  06708

E-mail:  gailbroy@yahoo.com

 

 

Objective           Health Science Librarian (entry-level professional position)

 

Education               Southern Connecticut State University

                           New Haven, Connecticut

                           Master of Library Science, 2002 (to be awarded December 2002)

 

The University of Texas at Austin

                           Austin, Texas

                           B.A.  History, 1985, magna cum laude

                           Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta (chapter president, 1984–1985)

 

Employment

 

 9/00–6/02             Library Assistant

Waterbury Hospital

Health Center Library

64 Robbins Street, Waterbury CT 06721

 

Provided library services to physicians, residents, nursing and hospital staff and the general public for reference, interlibrary loan, training on searching databases or utilizing print resources in the health sciences library.

 

Performed literature searches in MEDLINE, CINAHL, HealthSTAR, and other online information resources upon request. Actively marketed the Continuing Medical Education programs to clinicians (NCME and VHATV).

 

Responsible for ordering, tracking, check-in and management of the hospital's serials collections. Updated serials holdings on SERHOLD and CULS. Maintained table of contents service.

 

Left position in Summer, 2002 to attend school full-time to complete MLS degree.

 

 

1/89–11/99                Office Coordinator - Care Management Department

The Hospital of Saint Raphael

1450 Chapel Street, New Haven  CT  06511

 

Responsible for daily operation of office: supervising staff; producing monthly, quarterly, and annual reports; conducting annual employee reviews; orienting new employees to the department; providing visitor services; preparing purchase orders, travel forms, payroll vouchers, and accounting requests; coordinating all correspondence to peer review organization; designing and maintaining databases for various departmental programs. Responsible for on-call scheduling system. Duties also included scheduling and organizing meetings and conferences, preparing meeting minutes, and maintaining director’s schedule.

 

 

5/85–12/86        Administrative Associate

Linguistics Research Center

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin  TX  78712

 

Supervised office assistants; drafted budgets for contract and grant proposals; managed spending of grant and contract accounts; edited and formatted articles submitted to journal Computers and Translation; prepared quarterly and annual reports; interviewed job applicants; purchased supplies and equipment; provided visitor services for conferences and seminars; assisted director of center as required.

 

1/84–5/85                Social Science and Humanities Research Assistant

Linguistics Research Center

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin  TX  78712

 

Assisted senior member of a National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored research project in the revision of A Gothic Etymological Dictionary; maintained library and bibliography of reference works used on project; researched bibliographic data; cited in acknowledgments.

 

 

Professional Memberships

 

American Library Association

Medical Library Association

Special Library Association

Connecticut Library Association

 

 

Conferences/Workshops

 

2002

February 6, 2002. Sync or Swim: Managing the Flood of PDAs in Health Care. MLA-sponsored satellite teleconference held at UCONN Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut.

 

June 13-19, 2002. ALA Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia.      

 

2001

June 16-19, 2001. ALA Annual Conference. San Francisco, California.

 

 

References            

Available upon request.

 

 

 

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