Information Professional / Librarian
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
- Current
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- Intranet Portal Specialist at Thomson Reuters
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- Thomson University Intern at Thomson Reuters
- Special Library Intern at Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota
- Periodicals and Course Reserve Library Assistant at University of Minnesota, Wilson Library
- Grant & Communications Writer at Tubman Family Alliance
- Legal Advocate at Tubman Family Alliance
- Education
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- College of St. Catherine
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
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Margaret Ostrander’s Summary
Margaret Ostrander, MLIS, is an information professional who enjoys connecting people with information through innovative uses of technology. Margaret provides consultative, strategic support so that employees, business leaders and busines units across Thomson Reuters effectively leverage the corporate intranet portal, blogs and wikis to meet critical business needs.
Margaret earned a Master's of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from Dominican University, and her B.A. is from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Margaret Ostrander’s Specialties:
knowledge management, corporate intranets, enterprise search, social technologies, virtual worlds
Margaret Ostrander’s Experience
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Intranet Portal Specialist
Thomson Reuters
(Public Company; TRI; Information Services industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Provide intranet portal management for 50,000+ employee global corporation.
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Thomson University Intern
Thomson Reuters
(Information Services industry)
April 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Worked with employees to provide access to corporate library materials, including 35 collections across the globe and 8,000 eBooks and eAudiobooks; Created corporate library end-user survey to gather key cost and time savings metrics, proving value to upper management; Cataloged books, audiobooks and other materials; Utilized Dialog and sophisticated Internet search techniques to meet employee business research requests; Designed home page for new library online catalog; Spearhead Web 2.0 initiatives to meet knowledge sharing goals and support employee learning and development.
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Special Library Intern
Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota
(Higher Education industry)
October 2006 — May 2007 (8 months)
Created current awareness service by creatively converting CD-ROM data to RSS feeds; Prepared 200+ research reports for electronic conversion and inclusion in an online database; Created qualified Dublin Core metadata for agency websites; Supported transportation research requests and special projects.
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Periodicals and Course Reserve Library Assistant
University of Minnesota, Wilson Library
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Libraries industry)
September 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 8 months)
Coordinated stacks maintenance activities for collection of 300,000 bound periodicals, 4,000 current subscriptions, 100 newspapers and 500,000 reels of microfilm; supervised 12 student workers from recruitment to hiring to day-to-day management.
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Grant & Communications Writer
Tubman Family Alliance
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Fund-Raising industry)
October 2003 — August 2005 (1 year 11 months)
Raised $700,000 annually through authoring grant proposals to corporate giving programs, foundations and the United Way.
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Legal Advocate
Tubman Family Alliance
(Legal Services industry)
September 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 2 months)
Served 1,000 clients annually with directly legal and social services; wrote powerful, persuasive affidavits and accompanied clients to court hearings daily; worked in the family court system with clients obtaining restraining orders due to family and relationship violence.
Margaret Ostrander’s Education
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College of St. Catherine
MLIS , Library and Information Science , 2006 — 2008
- 4.0 / 4.0 Grade Point Average
- Degree granted from Dominican University (River Forrest, IL) while a student on the College of St. Catherine campus (St. Paul, MN).- Activities and Societies:
- Co-President/Treasurer, Student chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA)
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University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Bachelor of Arts , Women's Studies (minor: Chicano Studies) , 1999 — 2001
- Activities and Societies:
- Dean's List; National Scholarship Award Recipient; Multi-cultural student center leader
Additional Information
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Margaret Ostrander’s Interests:
emerging technologies, semantic web, ontologies, social networking, library and information science, corporate libraries and information centers, special libraries, networking, music, violin, greyhounds, GLBT issues.
Margaret Ostrander’s Groups:
Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra (Violinist & Volunteer Archivist), Special Libraries Association (SLA), North American Editorial Board of LIBREAS: Library Ideas.
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Special Libraries Association
Margaret Ostrander’s Honors:
Rising Star Award, Special Libraries Association (SLA), 2009
Board Member, Co-Chair of Mentoring & Diversity Program - Minnesota Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA), 2009
Grieg Aspnes Memorial Award, 2007.
National Scholarship Award recipient at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 1999-2001.
Dean's List, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 1999-2001.
Honor and music scholarships, DePauw University, 1997-1998.
Margaret Ostrander’s Contact Settings
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