Jonas Lamb

Current

• Information Consultant: Self Employed at Jonas Lamb: Research and Information Solutions
• Reference Librarian at University of Alaska Southeast
• Library Technician at Juneau Public Library

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Past

• Special Education Para-educator at Juneau School District

Education

• Drexel University
• University of Michigan

Connections

25 connections

Industry

Libraries

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company
• Letters from the North

Jonas Lamb’s Summary

I am a recent graduate from Drexel University's iSchool with a Masters in Library and Information Sciences. Completing the program in a distance format allowed me to maintain work in a public library where I applied these specialized skills on a daily basis. I have since worked in public, academic and special library environments and feel that my education and work experience make me comfortable accommodating the diverse information needs of each community of users.

I am excited about the field of Library and Information Sciences as the careful balance between tradition and transition provides for an innovative and rapidly changing work environment. Rapidly changing and improving technologies allow for revamping the way libraries provide services to their clients and I actively participate in this changing environment by passing along my technological knowledge to those willing to learn.

Jonas Lamb’s Specialties:

Knowledge of ContentDM content management system, Photoshop, OCLC ILLiad, Sirsi Workflows. Experience using Dublin Core, Thesaurus for Graphic Images, LCSH and AACR2 cataloging rules.

Experience providing library services to diverse populations in terms of age, race and information literacy. Policy enforcement, supervision of student workers.

Jonas Lamb’s Experience

• Information Consultant: Self Employed

  Jonas Lamb: Research and Information Solutions

  (Libraries industry)

  April 2009 — Present (9 months)

  In cooperation with Library staff, describe historical photographs to be uploaded to the Alaska Digital Archive (http://vilda.alaska.edu/) database using Dublin Core, LCSH and local name authority schema in CONTENTdm environment. Develop workflow process for manual migration of 8 and 16mm motion picture film to BetaSP>DV Tape> DVD. Create digital objects from images of historical documents.

• Reference Librarian

  University of Alaska Southeast

  (Educational Institution; Libraries industry)

  January 2009 — Present (1 year )

  Provide reference services (e-mail and face to face) and distance education resource support for students on and off campus. Assist off-campus students with remote database access problems and provide in-library users with instruction in the use of electronic resources. Aid on-campus students in locating print and electronic materials and troubleshoot wireless network access and networked printing. Participate in review of collection development sources, weeding projects and forward materials requests to appropriate staff. Supervise one student circulation worker and track material/equipment usage and reference questions for library statistics.

• Library Technician

  Juneau Public Library

  (Libraries industry)

  April 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)

  A little bit of everything, from Web 2.0/ New Media library services to toddler time story groups and new materials processing/cataloging. Check out some of my projects.
  
  http://juneaubookblog.wordpress.com
  http://jplpodcasts.podbean.com

• Special Education Para-educator

  Juneau School District

  (Education Management industry)

  September 2003 — March 2005 (1 year 7 months)

  Provided physical, academic and social/emotional support to students (pre-K-grade 5) with varying levels of disability. Required zen-like patience and ability to problem solve on the fly as high-tension, dangerous situations developed.

Jonas Lamb’s Education

• Drexel University

  MS , Library and Information Sciences , 2005 — 2008

  Activities and Societies:

  Beta Phi Mu (International Library/Information Science honors society), Digital Collections Intern at the Internet Public Library (http://ipl.org)

• University of Michigan

  BA , English, Social Studies, Education , 1999 — 2003

Additional Information

Jonas Lamb’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company
• Letters from the North

Jonas Lamb’s Interests:

Reading, writing, exploring the world with my son, skiing, biking, hiking, blogging (http://jonaslamb.wordpress.com, http://49writers.blogspot.com/, http://lettersfromthenorth.wordpress.com ) web design (http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~jfl35/final/index.html) and other web 2.0 applications (http://juneauwiki.wikidot.com/), music and radio, cooking and daydreaming.

Jonas Lamb’s Groups:

KTOO-Juneau (member), Alaska Library Association, Pacific Northwest Library Association

•    Beta Phi Mu
•    The Drexel University Alumni Association Networking Group
•    New Academic Librarians: Networking to success

Jonas Lamb’s Honors:

Beta Phi Mu 2009 (International Information Science Honor Society), 2006 AKLA Scholarship recipient

Jonas Lamb’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch