Catherine Pellegrino

catherine.pellegrino@gmail.com

Library Experience

• Responsible for all duties of the library director, including supervising 9 librarians and staff, overseeing the library’s operating and restricted budgets, and representing the library to the college administration.
• Major initiatives that the librarians and staff completed during the 15-month period included:
  • Withdrew from our existing local library consortium with the University of Notre Dame and joined the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI).
  • Migrated our ILS from Ex Libris’ Aleph to OCLC’s WorldShare Management System (WMS).
  • Merged the Cushwa-Leighton Library with the college’s Information Technology department, in coordination with the Chief Information Officer and a steering committee of library staff, IT staff, other campus staff, and faculty.
  • In collaboration with Information Technology, brought a capital funding proposal to move the bound periodical collection to compact shelving, recapturing 50% of the floor space in the library’s lower level, and to install new, tech-enhanced study furniture and spaces into the recaptured space.
  • Launched the first wholesale redesign of the library’s web presence in a decade.
  • Launched a search for a college archivist, a position that had been vacant for two years.

• Coordinate and provide leadership for information literacy activities of the library, including:
  • Provide information literacy instruction to courses in the curriculum.
  • Do outreach to new and continuing faculty to encourage them to collaborate with liaison librarians on research assignments.
  • Advocate for information literacy throughout the college curriculum.
• Liaison to academic departments for instruction and collection development:
  • Communication, Dance, and Theatre
  • Humanistic Studies
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Environmental Studies (instruction only)
  • Religious Studies (instruction only)
• Coordinator for the Critical Thinking (First-Year) Seminar, a campus-wide faculty position (2013-2018).
• Team leader for Reference & Instruction team, comprised of four public services librarians.
• Participate in providing a full range of reference services, including in-person, email, phone, and virtual reference service.
• Participate in faculty governance through committee service; highlights include:
  • Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable: 2009-2015; chair 2014-15
  • Assessment Committee: 2011-13
  • Institutional Review Board: 2010-current
  • Grievance Committee: 2015-18
  • Faculty Assembly Executive Committee (Secretary): 2017-18

• Coordinated and completed a one-year project to build the library’s collections in support of the mission of the Center, including:
  • Consulted with faculty in Women’s Studies, Intercultural Studies, and related departments to identify subject areas relevant to the project.
  • In consultation with faculty, prioritized purchase lists.
  • Prepared documentation, including annotated bibliographies, to publicize and increase usage of the new materials.
• Results: After ten years, 77% of the books acquired as part of the project had circulated at least once, and 52% had circulated at least twice. For randomly-selected books acquired in the same year that were not part of the project, 60% had circulated at least once and 38% had circulated at least twice.

• Reference: Assisted Librarian for Instruction and Undergraduate Research in providing library instruction and supporting the department’s instruction program.
• Acquisitions: Designed and implemented a project to project 3-, 5-, and 10-year scenarios for bundled serial package pricing, given historical inflation rates.
• Library Development: Collaborated with the Development staff to launch and sustain the Libraries’ capital campaign, including building a website for the Development Office, and writing a set of human-interest pieces on specific donors.

• Managed a collection of over 200 active serial subscriptions.
• Cataloged music scores from copy on OCLC.
• Trained and supervised student assistants in retrospective tattle-taping project.
• Assisted in moving the entire library collection into newly renovated space in summer 2003.

• Assisted patrons at the reference desk and via chat reference.
• Assisted with library instruction sessions for undergraduates in various courses.

• Assisted patrons at the circulation/reference desk.
• Managed reserve collection of over 300 titles and over 40 courses.
• Maintained web pages, converting many to standards-compliant XHTML.

Teaching Experience

1999-2000 Visiting Instructor of Music, The University of the South (Sewanee)

• Taught undergraduate courses in music appreciation and advanced music theory.

1997-98 Visiting Instructor of Music Theory, Oberlin College

• Taught full load (3 courses per term) of undergraduate courses in music theory.

1994-97 Part-Time Acting Instructor in Music, Yale University

• Taught undergraduate courses in music theory and musicianship (ear-training) skills.

Education

Publications & Presentations

Professional Affiliations

• American Library Association (ALA)
  • Committee service: RUSA/MARS Joint Committee on Virtual Reference, Subcommittee on Virtual Reference Tutorial: 2009-11
• Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
• Academic Libraries of Indiana, Instruction Committee: 2009-current, chair 2011-12
• Private Academic Library Network of Indiana, Board of Directors, 2018-19

Full contact information and references are available upon request; please contact catherine.pellegrino@gmail.com.