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.