E-Portfolio for Theresa Mastrodonato
Introduction
This portfolio has been created to provide an introduction to myself and some of the projects I created while in library school at University at Buffalo and some of the presentations I have given in instruction.
As part of my LIS 581 (Management of Libraries and Information Agencies) class, we had to think about our philosophy of librarianship. Since I am so new to the field, this is what I came up with.
Resume
If you would like to find out more information about me, you can e-mail me and I will send you my resume.
Instruction Presentations
This was presented to students as part of the Gold Workshop series at SUNY Geneseo. The students take classes outside of their normal classes to gain experience in leadership and life skills they will need when they leave college.
Library School Projects
The pathfinder was created for my LIS 518 - Reference Sources and Services Class. We had to create a pathfinder on any chosen topic and organize the basic information someone would need when trying to find information on the topic we chose. We had to include information on dictionaries, encyclopedias, databases/periodical indexes, bibliographies, maps, atlases, etc.
This PowerPoint presentation was created for my LIS 518 - Reference Sources and Services Class. We had to create a PowerPoint presentation of 10-15 slides that showed an audience how to use a particular reference source. I was assigned the Physicians' Desk Reference.
For my LIS 523 - User Education class, we had a semester long project where we had to create a tutorial for incoming DLIS students. It had to be on a subject that could be useful to new students at the University at Buffalo as they worked on their MLS. I chose to do a tutorial on MyUB. This site is a one-stop portal for students to access Blackboard, their class information, general information about happenings on campus and the library.
The tutorial is a webpage and was created using FrontPage.
For my LIS 566 - Digital Information Retrieval Class, we had to produce a one-page user guide on how to use a particular database of our choosing. For this assignment, I chose the Anthropological Literature Database.
For this assignment, I chose the Anthropological Literature Database available via the UB Library webpage. I am assuming that the user can find the database either through the Resources by Subject link or the Databases by Title link off the main UB library page (http://ublib.buffalo.edu). This guide is designed for undergraduates in an Introductory Archaeology/Anthropology class since they are going to be more interested in a basic search. Many students coming into college today (specifically Millenials) are extremely proficient in computer use and using online search engines. Many don’t need detailed instructions or step by step instructions on how to search. They want the basic information so they can get into the database, perform the search and then get the results (including the citations and the full articles) and get on with the rest of their work. This is why for this guide I did not include a step by step instruction for how to perform the search. The students need to know what years are covered for this online database, what the basic search screen looks like and what each of the options to search by means, and finally what the results in short form will look like. They also need to know how to access the electronic article from the results provided. I included information on the Help Screen as well, in case a user wanted to go into more in depth searching and information on when the librarians are available for assistance in Lockwood library, where the hard bound copy of the journal is located.
For my LIS 571 - Organization and Control of Recorded Information class, we had to design our own classification process for a collection of our choosing. We had to select a collection and then design the classification system. We also had to choose a fictional place we would place our collection.
If you have additional questions, please e-mail me.
Last updated: April 29, 2007
© Theresa Mastrodonato, 2007