DrWeb

DrWeb is the nom de plume de Net for a librarian in San Diego, CA...

About DrWeb...

A few words about me and the personal side of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.. below is a list of work and school worlds I've known so far..

* Search Services Manager, Inktomi Corporation, Foster City, CA
* Product Manager, AOL NetFind, California and Virginia (bi-coastal)
* Webmaster, Information Access Company, Foster City, CA
* Webmaster, DIALOG, Knight-Ridder Information, Mountain View, CA
* Independent information professional, Genesis Information Services (San Diego, CA)
* Reference Desk Supervisor, InterNIC Information Services (California)
* Librarian, UC San Diego, California
* Special Librarian, W.R. Grace & Co. (South Carolina and Maryland)
* Librarian, MLS University of South Carolina
* Research Associate, UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina
* Writer-Editor, B.A. English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC)

* Job at SDPL
In November, 2001, I started a new job as a Training Librarian at the San Diego Public Library. My work involves establishing benchmarks for their technical competencies and conducting a training survey; coordinating and creating staff and patron training classes and programs, such as the classes for staff from Infopeople; developing training materials, resources, and aids for the Library catalog and all electronic resources; training staff in electronic databases, searching, and retrieval.

It's been plenty to do, but the instructional work, creating tutorials and online materials, and improving training of the staff is very rewarding. I work in a group called CAOS (Collection Analysis and Online Services).. and yes, sometimes, it is indeed chaos :) .. now, too, I am the Electronic Resources Librarian, taking on more work as downsizing impacts our library ...