JUDITH MARIE BRUGGER SWANN
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Marketing Communications, MCCI,
2006—present
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Manage
relationships with consultants and contractors, including public relations
campaign agencies and designers.
- Plan,
design, create, manage, and maintain Marketing group intranet and Corporate intranet.
- Manage trade show projects and product demonstrations.
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Target
and contact industry analysts.
- Consult
and advise on website redesign. Code and maintain web pages. Manage contracted-out development projects.
- Write
and distribute white papers, news items, and company announcements.
- Design
and write product briefs and other marketing collateral.
- Write,
edit, and manage documentation.
- Write
product functional specifications.
Editor, Cornell University, Knight Institute for Writing
in the Disciplines, Ithaca, NY, 2004—present
- Edit theses and dissertations on a variety of themes.
Operations Management Assistant,
MCCI, 2005—2006
- Analyze
staffing needs, write job descriptions, post advertisements, screen and interview
candidates.
- Manage
matters pertaining to visa status changes.
- Perform
research as requested and present information to upper management.
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Interpret
financial records. Write letters to providers.
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Test
customer resource management software.
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Write
and communicate company policies.
Technical
Writer, ADIC, 2000—2005
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Design,
write, edit, and produce user manuals and release notes for tape libraries,
Fibre Channel, and gigabit Ethernet bridges, and the software used on these
systems.
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Design
and produce graphics for text materials, CD faces, and CD inserts.
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Produce
work in both print and web formats.
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Create
document templates. Design publications workflow and procedures. Test equipment.
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Send
documents to translation. Provide quality review for translations.
- Serve
as liaison between engineering and documentation. Create publications schedules
that meet and balance the needs of engineering, training, and marketing.
Information Systems Coordinator
and Trainer, Finger Lakes Library System, 1997—2000
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Provide
support for FLLS automated systems, especially the Windows LANs and NT servers.
Some UNIX experience.
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Troubleshoot,
instruct, communicate, and develop automated solutions for a primary audience
of rural, part-time library staff members at 31 different libraries, each
with widely varying levels of technical skills.
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Develop
grant proposals and serve as project director for successful applications.
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Assess
emerging electronic resources and develop appropriate proposals.
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Help
develop a telecommunications infrastructure congruent with the needs of
the System.
Authorities Process Owner, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, 1996—1997
Database Designer Santa Fe Kiva
Fireplace Manufacturing, Inc. ,1996
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Develop
record and file structures for integrated, multi-module business application
using FoxPro.
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Enter
customer and payment information, invoices, purchase orders and items in
stock online and make searchable
Information Technology Librarian,
Cornell University, 1995—1996
- Oversee the shift from a Macintosh
and dumb terminal infrastructure to PC infrastructure. Install over 100 workstations
networked via Ethernet to the campus mainframe and via Windows for Workgroups
to laser printers.
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Test
and provided instructions for using Windows-based cataloging software, Windows-based
software to access the external source for bibliographic records from which
the Library accepted copy, FTP software, a World Wide Web browser, electronic
mail, word processing and spreadsheeting where appropriate.
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Maintain
records and produce documentation throughout. Developed a home page for
Central Technical Services using HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and CGI
(Common Gateway Interface) conventions.
Catalog Management and Authorities
Librarian, Cornell University, 1990—1994
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Oversee
a unit of 4 staff members that made corrections to holding information in
the library catalog.
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Oversee
a unit of 6 staff members that corrected the format of headings used in
the library catalog. Contract with vendors for the automated correction
of headings.
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Manage
the retrospective conversion of library catalog records for materials in
a variety of collections, including Latin American history, and the Thai,
Lao, and Burmese languages. Oversee between 3 and 8 staff members doing
this work.
Cataloger, Cornell University,
the City University of New York, and the University of New Orleans, 1982—1989
2005.
Tompkins Cortland Community College. 4 hours. Accounting.
2004-2005.
www.sessions.edu. 15L. Graphic Design.
1995-1997.
Cornell University. 15 hours. Burmese, French, and Italian.
1988-1989.
Graduate Center, City University of New York. 9 hours. Comparative Literature.
1988.
City College, City University of New York. MASTER OF ARTS. English.
1986.
University of New Orleans. 3 hours. French.
1982.
Emory University. MASTER OF LIBRARIANSHIP.
1978.
University of Iowa. Russian. 18 hours. 1977-1978
1974-1977.
University of Iowa. BACHELOR OF ARTS. Russian major. Cum laude.
1975.
Indiana University. Russian. 10 hours.
1972-1973.
University of Northern Iowa. Psychology. 33 hours.
MEMBERSHIPS
American Medical Writers
Association. 2005-2006.
Public
Library Association. 1999-2000.
New York
Library Association. 1997-2000.
Program
for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC).
Subject
Authority Task Group. 1994-1995.
Standing
Committee on Library Automation. 1994-1995.
American
Library Association. 1982-2000
Association
of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). 1982-1990.
Louisiana
Chapter. Newsletter Editor. 1984-1986.
New
York Chapter. Co-Newsletter Editor. 1986-1987.
Association
for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). 1982-1996.
Committee
on Serials Standards. Member. 1988-1990, 1991-1992.Chair. 1990-1991.
Computer
Files Discussion Group. Machine Readable Bibliographic Information (MARBI)
reporter. 1993.
Library
and Information Technology Association (LITA). 1990-1993.
Technical
Standards for Library Automation Committee (TESLA). Intern. 1991-1992.
North
American Serials Interest Group (NASIG). Member. 1988-1991.
Online
Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc. (OLAC). Member. 1991-1996.
Serials
Industry Systems Advisory Committee (SISAC). Member. 1988-1989. Chair. 1990-1991.
ALCTS
Serials Section/Book Industry Study Group Preconference Planning Co-Chair:
Electronic Data Interchange and the Library. 1990-1991.
PUBLICATIONS
Rajec, Elizabeth.
A paper nest. Illustrated by Judy Swann. Privately published, 2007.
Technical
Services Workstations. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries.
Office of Management Services, 1996. SPEC Kit #213. Survey of 116 U.S. and Canadian
research libraries detailing the staffing patterns, hardware and software used
in their technical services departments.
Poetry,
Fiction, Art:
"O Be Joyful".
Inter-Board Poetry Competition, Honorable Mention, Feb., 2010.
"Macabrerie
: In Honor of Those Who Gave Up." Danse
Macabre. March, 2010.
"Summer
Comes Again." Tongues of the Ocean. Forthcoming (May, 2010).
"out
of this world." "the dream tickets." east/west. Forthcoming
(Spring, 2010).
"Snow".
Red Wheelbarrow. Forthcoming (Spring, 2010).
"Ramadan."
Lilliput Review. Forthcoming (2010).
"Road
to Albany." Schlock.
March, 2010.
"Snow".
Inter-Board Poetry Competition, 2nd place, Jan., 2010.
"Post Card from Texas." Literary
Bohemian. Feb. 2010.
"Chrysanthemum." "Shoes
Outside the Door." Apparatus Magazine. 1:6. , Dec., 2009.
"Pin."
"Pinned."
All-World Wrestling Poetry—a collection of 52 wrestling poems. Dec., 2009.
"We
Burned Incense". Inter-Board Poetry Competition, 1st place, Sept.,
2009.
"Kay's
Kitchen." Thema. 21:3, p.83, 2009.
"divide
the verbs." Lilliput Review. #164, July, 2008.
"Navigating
Sempronius ". WORM40. [August,
2007].
"Boots"
and "Snow Angels". WORM39.
[March, 2007].
"Gettin' It". Tilt Literary
Magazine. June, 2006.
Lines
included in "06/06/06: A Diary Project." Ithaca: 2Turtles, 2006.
"Pushkin's Gypsies and other poems." Reading (with Jon Frankel) at Cornell
University's Johnson Museum. March 13, 1994.
"How-To Stories." Reading (with the Feminist Writing Workshop) on WVBR Radio.
February 6, 1994.
Quoted
in :
Nicholson
Baker, Annals of Scholarship, “DISCARDS,” The
New Yorker, April 4, 1994, p. 64-
Articles:
"Eric Greinke's
Kayak Lessons."
Verse Wisconsin. Forthcoming, April 2010.
"Judy Kolosso's
Aubade and In the First Place." Verse Wisconsin. Forthcoming,
April 2010.
"Red
Tape." Ithaca Times. December 18, 1997.
"Cataloging
for Digital Libraries." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.
Vol. 22:3/4 (1996): 59-73. A preliminary and somewhat devil's advocate view
of cataloging norms.
"Cataloging
the Internet." McJournal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship.
1993. Available as http://wings.buffalo.edu/publications/mcjrnl/v1n2/brugger.html
"Automated
Acquisitions and the Quality Database: A Response." Library Acquisitions:
Practice and Theory. Vol. 16 (1992): 79-83.
"How the
NISO (National Information Standards Organization's) Holdings Standard Works:
The Findings of an Investigation at CUNY, 1989." Serials Librarian, 20:2/3
(1991): 17-30.
"NISO
Annual Meeting." ALCTS Newsletter. 2:1 (1991): 2-3.
"Serials
Standards Work: The Next Frontier." Library Resources & Technical Services.
34:2 (1990): 139-157.
"Afghans
in America: Who Are They?" Ethnic Forum. 8:1 (1988):86-93.
Encyclopedia articles:
7
articles in Literary Exile in the Twentieth Century. Martin Tucker,
ed. New York, NY: Greenwood, 1991. Bibliography upon request.
Review
articles in American Reference Books Annual. Littleton, CO: Libraries
Unlimited,
1987
Review
of Jeannetta Boswell's Theodore Dreiser and the Critics, 1911-1982: A
Bibliography with Selective Annotations. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1986.
p. 448.
Review
of Edgar E. MacDonald and Tonette Bond Inge's Ellen Glasgow: A Reference
Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986. p. 448-449.
1988
Review
of Harry Edwin Eiss' Dictionary of Language Games, Puzzles, and Amusements.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. p. 419.
Review
of Geoffrey K. Pullum and William A. Ladusaw's Phonetic Symbol Guide.
Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1986. p. 420.
Review
of Harry Shaw's Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions. New
York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1987. p. 421.
1989
Review
of Jacek Fisiak's A Bibliography of Writings for the History of the English
Language. 2nd. ed. New York, NY: Walter De Gruyter, 1987. p. 374.
Review
of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. London: Longman,
Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 repr., London: Bloomsbury; distr., Detroit:
Gale, 1987. p. 390.
Review
of Trude Wurz's Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The Literary Reputation: A Primary
and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. New York, NY: Garland, 1988. p.
432.
Review
of David L. Middleton's Toni Morrison: An Annotated Bibliography.
New York, NY: Garland, 1987. p. 434.
Review
of Bruce Kellner's A Gertrude Stein Companion: Content With Example.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988. p. 436.
1990
Review
of Forrest Houlette's Nineteenth Century Rhetoric: An Enumerative Bibliography.
New York, NY: Garland, 1989. p.419.
Review
of Emmanuel Molho's The Dictionary Catalogue. 2nd. ed. New York,
NY: French & European Publications, 1989. p. 420.
Review
of Stan Malless and Jeff McQuain's The Elements of English: A Glossary
of Basic Terms... 2nd. ed. Lanham, MD: Madison Books; distr., Lanham,
MD: National Book Network, 1988. p. 422.
Review
of Harold Lemay, Sid Lerner, and Marian Taylor's The New Words Dictionary.
Rev. ed. New York, NY: Ballantine/Random House, 1988. p. 426.
Review
of Adrian Room's Dictionary of Contrasting Pairs. New York, NY: Routledge,
Chapman & Hall, 1988. p. 431.
1991
Review
of Patrick R. Dewey's Fax for Libraries. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1990.
p. 242.
Review
of Margaret L. Carter's The Vampire in Literature: A Critical Bibliography.
Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1989. p. 458.
1992
Review
of Gay Swift's The Batsford Encyclopedia of Embroidery Techniques.
London: B.T. Batsford, distr., North Pomfret, VT: Trafalgar Square/David
& Charles, c1984. p. 383.
Review
of Philip Morris and Geoff Weston's Directory of Translators and Translating
Agencies in the United Kingdom. 2nd. ed. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1990. p.
410.
Review
of Ella Whitehead's John Lehmann's `New Writing': An Author-Index 1936-1950.
Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon Press, 1990. p. 489.
Review
of The GRANTS Subject Authority Guide. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1991.
p. 266.
1993
Review
of Ludwig W. Adamec's Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan. Metuchen,
NJ: Scarecrow, 1991. p. 57.
Review
of Patricia M. Herbert's Burma. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1991.
p. 58
Review
of Margaret Hobbie's Italian American Material Culture: A Dictionary
of Collections, Sites, and Festivals in the United States and Canada.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. p. 182.
Review
of Laurence A. Canter and Martha S. Siegel's The Insider's Guide to Successful
U.S. Immigration: Discover How to Make the Immigration Act Work For You.
New York, NY: Harper Perennial/Harper Collins, 1992. p. 247.
1994
Review
of Ian Rowland's Timor, Including the Islands of Roti and Ndao. Santa
Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1992. p. 47.
Review
of Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary. 2nd. ed. New York, NY:
Harper Collins, 1993. p. 439.
1995
Review
of Janis Lull's The Metaphysical Poets: A Chronology. New York, NY:
G.K. Hall, 1994. p. 529.
Review
of Isobel V. Morin's Women of the U.S. Congress. Minneapolis, MN:
Oliver Press, 1994. p. 316.
1996
Review
of Webster's New World Vest Pocket Dictionary. 2nd. ed. New York,
NY: Macmillan/Simon & Schuster, 1994. p. 446.
Review
of The Pocket Oxford Russian Dictionary. 2nd. ed. New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 1994. p. 469.
Review
articles in Library and Information Science Annual. Littleton, CO: Libraries
Unlimited,
1987
Review
of Library Systems Evaluation Guide: Cataloging. Volume 7. Powell,
OH: James E. Rush, 1985. p. 80.
1988
Review
of Anna Hart's Knowledge Acquisition for Expert Systems. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1986. p. 81.
1989
Review
of Christopher Turner's Organizing Information: Principles and Practice.
London: Clive Bingley; distr., Chicago: American Library Association, 1987.
p. 155.
Other:
"PCs
for CTS." Kaleidoscope. 4:4 (1995)1-2. About the infrastructure upgrade
in Central Technical Services.
"Seated
Debates." Kaleidoscope. 2:5 (1993):1-3. An article on ergonomics.
The newsletter editor gave it that title.
SISAC
(Serials Industry Systems Advisory Council) News. Major contributor
to this newsletter, the focus of which was a standardized, barcoded representation
of issue and article information. Vol. 5-6 (1990-1991).
"Why
Najibullah Won't Go On a Diet," Afghanistan Forum. 16:6 (1988):18.
ACRL/NY
Newsletter. Co-Editor. New York branch of the Association of College
and Research Libraries.
ACRL/LA
Newsletter. Editor. Nos. 2-5 (1984-1986). Louisiana branch of the Association
of College and Research Libraries.
PRESENTATIONS
- 2008 Interview of Gerald
Coles "Ithaca
Democratic Socialists of America Presents #370: Education: Politics and Reform".
October 13.
- 2008 Interview of Josh
Bornstein and Scott Perez. "Ithaca
Democratic Socialists of America Presents #350:"School Board Election
'08". May 12.
- 2000 "The Gates Grant
at New York Public Libraries." News Center 7. October 29.
- 1996
Los Alamos National Laboratory. J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center. Series
of presentations on authorities work, covering USMARC and AACR2R conventions.
Substantial paper documentation supplied at each session.
- 1995
Medical Library Association. Upstate New York/Ontario Chapter. October 12,
1995. Paper entitled "What's in a Name?" about standardized naming and addressing
conventions appropriate to networked information retrieval.
- 1995
American Library Association (114th: June, 1995: Chicago, Ill.) Computer Files
Discussion Group. Paper entitled "URN's" about possible directions for the
Uniform Resource Name, a standard being developed within the Internet Engineers
Task Force.
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1993
American Library Association (112th: June, 1993: New Orleans, La.) Computer
Files Discussion Group. Paper entitled, "Cataloging Internet Resources"
about using USMARC conventions to represent networked objects.
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1992-1993
Cornell University Library training sessions on the national standards for
authorities work within the context of the local authorities module.
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1990
American Library Association (110th: June, 1990: Atlanta, Ga.) Computer
Files Discussion Group. Paper entitled "Cataloging Computer Files as Preservation
Media," a discussion of the applicability of multiple version conventions
to preservation digitizations.
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1990
NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group) Conference. Formal presentation
at a workshop entitled "SISAC (Serials Industry Systems Advisory Council)
and You," intended to generate consumer demand for the SISAC barcode.
LANGUAGES
French, Italian, Russian
-- Read and speak
German, Latin, Spanish -- Read at the elementary level
Burmese, Arabic--Once studied.
Japanese -- Studying now.
SOFTWARE
Microsoft Office 2007; Microsoft
Project; Adobe CS3, Framemaker; Dreamweaver, Fireworks; RoboHelp; CorelSuite;
Joomla; Mac OS X;
VOLUNTEERING
2009-. WazaFLO New York,
U19 Manager.
2008-2009 Tompkins County United Soccer Club. Publicist. U16B Manager.
2008. New Roots School. Web work.
2008-. Ithaca High School. Open House Program.
2007. Old Hundred Nursing Home.
1999-2004. Cayuga Heights Elementary School. English language writing tutor.
2000-2006. Ithaca Youth Soccer Club. Coach (2000). Manager (2001-2005). Board
(2005-2006).
2004. City of Ithaca. Bike Pedestrian Advisory Committee. Member.