Reference and Research Services Librarian at Stevens Institute of Technology
Greater New York City Area
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- Reference and Research Services Librarian, Innovation and Digital Strategies Specialist at Stevens Institute of Technology
- Past
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- Assistant Project Manager/Library Assistant at Rutgers University
- Audio Archive Assistant/Consultant at Institute of Jazz Studies
- Audio Archive Consultant at Poet's House
- Education
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- Stevens Institute of Technology
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
- Emerson College
- University of Maine
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Valerie Forrestal’s Experience
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Reference and Research Services Librarian, Innovation and Digital Strategies Specialist
Stevens Institute of Technology
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Provide reference assistance, teach library research and information literacy, and help coordinate outreach programs to promote library services. Specialize in interactive technology (web 2.0), social media, digital archives, multimedia archiving and humanities and social science resources.
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Assistant Project Manager/Library Assistant
Rutgers University
(Non-Profit; Higher Education industry)
May 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 8 months)
Indexed, edited metadata, and scanned environmental documents for the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library (http://njedl.rutgers.edu/njdlib/); Handled reference requests; created and edited HTML; Coordinated and supervised several other students at above tasks.
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Audio Archive Assistant/Consultant
Institute of Jazz Studies
(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Libraries industry)
May 2005 — September 2005 (5 months)
Worked on a project to digitize and catalog collection of rare interviews.
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Audio Archive Consultant
Poet's House
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Libraries industry)
January 2005 — June 2005 (6 months)
Worked with library to help organize the digitization of the Axe-Houghton Multimedia Archive, including research and development of best practices based on current scholarly standards in the field of audio archiving.
Valerie Forrestal’s Education
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Stevens Institute of Technology
MS , Service Oriented Computing , 2009 — 2012 (expected)
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
MLIS , Library and Information Science , 2004 — 2005
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Emerson College
MA , Media Arts/Audio Production , 2000 — 2002
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University of Maine
BA , Mass Communications , 1996 — 2000
