Michelle Ganz______________________________________________________

â–ª ganz@email.arizona.edu

A booklover by nature, a librarian by heart.

EDUCATION

MLIS, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Expected August 2006 (3.8 GPA).

Courses: Introduction to Preservation, Organization of Information, Information Resources and Services, Planning and Evaluating Information Centers, History of the Book, Chaucer, Information Technology, Research Methods, Academic Libraries in the 21st Century, Corporate Library Administration and Organization.

Publications: Who Gets to be Literate? Published in BiblioTech University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources and Library Sciences’ online magazine, volume 3 number 2, available at: http://www.sir.arizona.edu/lso/bibliotech/2005nov_vol3_no2/ganz_article.html.

Paper Presentation: University of Arizona’s SIRLS Symposium: Casualty of the Digital Revelation: Preserving Preservation, (Nov. 2005).

Organizational Memberships: Library Student Organization (member since 2005); Special Library Association (member since 2005).

BA Humanities, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Received March 2003 (1.7 / 3.7 GPA).

Graduate Studies: Finnegans Wake seminar, African American literature and Law at The Ohio State University, Department of English Graduate Studies, Columbus, Ohio(2004).

WORK EXPERIENCE

Special Collections Intern- Special Collection of the University of Arizona Library, Tucson,Arizona. Created online and physical displays of medieval manuscript facsimiles (January, 2006-May, 2006).

Student Assistant- University Archives, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Processed collections, assisted the archivists, conducted patron research, and assisted in the design and setup of displays (April 2002-May 2003).

LIBRARY SKILLS

Rare Books: Handling techniques, digitization techniques, virtual and physical displays.

Archiving: Collection cataloging, collection processing, privacy and copyright concerns, physical displays.

Reference: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Atlases online and print; MLA and APA citation style manuals.

Searching: ERIC, LISA, Gale Group databases, Lexis-Nexis, Academic Search Premiere, EEBO, English Short Title Catalog, OCLC/WorldCat.

Computer Skills: Dreamweaver, Contribute, Wikis, podcasts, blogs, various internet applications.

REFERENCES

Tamar Chute, Assistant Archivist

Ohio State University

Patricia Overall, Assistant Professor

School of Information Resources and Library Sciences

University of Arizona

Roberta I. Shaffer, Executive Director

FLICC/FEDLINK

Library of Congress

Bonnie Travers, Special Collections Librarian

University of Arizona