Galadriel Chilton :: Résumé
E-mail: gc180us@yahoo.com

Electronic Resources Librarian
2003 - Present; tenured fall 2009 | promoted fall 2010
Instructor, School of Education
2004 - 2008
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, La Crosse, WI

• Teach evidence-based information literacy instruction techniques for enhanced student learning.
• Developed embedded librarian instruction program for communication studies courses including in-person and online learning modules.
• Assess and evaluate teaching methods and student learning.
• Design and create online tutorials, guides (e.g. LibGuides), and quick tip learning objects.
• Customize e-resource interfaces to match information literacy instruction goals and user expectations.
• Taught required education course: EDM319 - Technology for Teaching and Learning.
• Provide reference services for students, faculty, and staff.
• Collection development in zoology, social sciences, and performing arts.
• Co-designed ERMes, an open source e-resource management system based in Microsoft Access. ERMes is used by over 50 institutions from around the world.
• Implemented and manage LibData, an e-resource management and delivery tool.
• Manage collection and budget for over 250 electronic resources.
• Negotiate favorable trials, license agreements, and prices for online subscriptions.
• Track usage reports, user interfaces, and technical support correspondence for e-resources.
• Past member of the Library Advisory Council and Lesson Study Project
• Team leader for LibQUAL+ library survey management (spring 2004)

• Webmaster - Virtually Yours: Online Library Services
• Taught discipline-specific instruction for graduate and undergraduate students
• Founder and editor of library newsletter: Dare to be Wise @ Your Library
• Liaison and collection developer for art, dance, music, and theatre departments
• Lead staff training for technology applications and library issues
• Campus newsletter columnist for library services
• Manage library computer maintenance schedule
• Member of campus-wide Online Course Policy Task Force
• Secretary elect for Administrative Assembly
• Provide reference services for students, faculty, and staff
• Assist with copy cataloging

• Webmaster- Redesigned library and library foundation websites
• Managed volunteer Internet training program
• Evaluated electronic resources
• Troubleshooter for library computers
• Liaison between library and IT personnel
• Member of library board's Technology Task Force
• Taught computer classes for library staff
• Provided bibliographic instruction for patrons and system librarians
• Collection manager for eight subject areas
• Researched software for enhancing library function and workflow
  

• Webmaster- Redesigned library website
• Researched and analyzed electronic resources
• Troubleshooter for staff computers
• Liaison between libraries and IT personnel
• Implemented collection development responsibilities
• Presented bibliographic instruction lectures to legal research students
• Provided business, law and international relations reference service to students, faculty, staff and the public
  

Gerard J. Ferrari, Artist - La Crescent, MN
1999 to Present
www.gerardferrari.com

• Site redesigned July 2003
• Monitor site hit statistics, search engine presence, and update content
• Designed an online gallery of the artist's work using HTML and CSS

Tompkins County Public Library - Ithaca, NY
2002 - 2003
www.tcpl.org

• Negotiated contractual agreement for uninterrupted Website maintenance after relocating.
• Managed update requests from library staff, event postings, and site traffic analysis.

Forest Home Chapel - Ithaca, NY
2002 - 2003

• Designed Website for annual craft fair to mirror Forest Home Chapel's existing identity.

Doering, W. & Chilton, G. A locally created ERM: How and why we did it. Computers in Libraries, 28(8), 6-7and 46-48.

Chilton, G., Current, M. D., Holman, J. S., Prucha, C. L., Putz, J. E., Reinert, T. D., Belter, B. L. (2007). Teaching library information literacy skills to students enrolled in an introductory communication course: A collaborative study. Teaching Forum: A Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, http://www.uwlax.edu/teachingforum/.

Chilton, G. (2006). In Hoffman, PhD., B. (Ed.), Typography for instructional media. In Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (pp. http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/typography2/start.htm). San Diego, CA: San Diego State University.

Chilton, G. (2006). Gerard Justin Ferrari's political clay. Ceramics Art & Perception, 64, 78–9.

The Life & Times of an Embedded LIbrarian (Invited presentation)
March 2009
Library Technology Conference
St. Paul, MN

Getting a Handle on E-Resource Management: An ERM Panel (Invited panel member)
Panel member with Don Zhou, William Mitchell, and Carolyn DeLuca
March 2009
Library Technology Conference
St. Paul, MN

The Life & Times of an Embedded Librarian (link to presentation audio and PowerPoint)
March 2008
Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference
Atlanta, GA

Lesson Study: An Experience in Collaborative Inquiry
Presented with Michael Current, Jenifer Holman, and Cristine Prucha
April 2007
Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians Annual Conference
Wisconsin Dells, WI

Casper the Ghost As an Academic Library User - Friendly but Still Invisible: Venturing Beyond Mere Numbers
Presented with John Jax
November 2006
Wisconsin Dells, WI

What Have they Mastered?
Information Literacy & Graduate Students: Preliminary Survey Results (link to presentation PowerPoint)
March 2006
Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians Annual Conference
Stevens Point, WI

LibQual+ Results
Presented with M. Washington, M. Folster, and K. Hinnat
April 2005
Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians Annual Conference
Madison, WI

Search Soup & Rhyming Lines:
Innovative Instruction Techniques for Information Literacy (link to presentation Website)
November 2004
Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference
Lake Geneva, WI

American Library Association
Member, 2000 - Present
Divisions and Special Interest Groups:

Wisconsin Library Association
Member, 2003 - Present
Special Interest Groups:

• Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians

Beta Phi Mu, International Library Science & Information Studies Honor Society
2000 - Present