Carole Leita's Résumé

Contact Information
Education
Experience
Professional Affiliations
Publications
Presentations and Trainings
Photo

Contact Information

Mail: Carole Leita
2027 Parker Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
Voice: 510-540-6820

Cell: 510-334-2118
Fax: 510-848-1128
E-mail: carole at leita dot org

Education

• Michigan State University -- A.A. in History. 1963.
• Minot State University -- B.A. in English. 1967.
• University of Minnesota -- M.A. in Library Science. 1973.

Experience

• Trainer, Consultant - California State Library Infopeople Project - 1995 - to date.
• Internet Tutor - Volunteer on Sundays at the Berkeley Public Library, teaching members of the community how to use the Internet at the library - March, 1997 - to date.

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• Coordinator, Indexer - Librarians' Index to the Internet - 1992 - October, 2001 (retired).
• Listowner - LII WEEK - 1998 - October, 2001 (retired. Weekly list of best entries added to the Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII).
• Web Manager - California Infopeople Project Web Pages - June, 1995 - September, 1999.
• Co-moderator (with Bill Moseley) of the IP-TEC mailing list - Infopeople Technology Discussion List - June 1995 - Dec 1997. Merged into the IPADMIN mailing list.
• Listowner of the BPL-INTERNET mailing list - Berkeley Public Library Internet Project staff and volunteers discussion list - March, 1995 - March, 1997.
• Internet Librarian - Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, California - 1994 - 1997. Project coordinator for the California Infopeople Project at the library. Computer set-up and maintenance, staff training, volunteer organization and training, develop and teach classes to the public, present the project to community groups.
• Reference Librarian - Berkeley Public Library - 1978 - 1997 (retired). Helped connect library users with the information they need. Managed the State Documents collection, selected fiction and reference materials, participated in the Automation Information Services Committee, represented the library on the Bay Area Library Information System (BALIS) Reference Committee.
• Web Manager. Berkeley Public Library Web Pages - 1994 - 1997.

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• Grant Coordinator. LSCA Major Urban Library Resources Grant (MURL) - 1979-1995. Led the team that purchased approximately $9000 a year of materials on women. Applied for the grant, reported on it and prepared numerous bibliographies on the collection.
• Coordinator Weekend Library Line. 1978-1986. Late-night telephone reference service for the Bay Area . Hired, trained, and supervised a staff of 10 librarians.
• Union Leader - 1985-1990. Organized a wall-to-wall chapter (Local 535, SEIU) at the library, served first as library president and then City President. Helped negotiate three contracts. Aside from negotiating comparable worth, my favorite bargaining win is the City sabbatical leave policy. Only city employee ever named Employee of the Month as a result of their Union work.
• Reference Librarian - University of Minnesota. 1971-1973. General reference at the Twin Cities Campus, Wilson Library.
• Reference Library Assistant - University of Minnesota. 1968-1970. General reference at the Twin Cities Campus, Wilson Library.
• Library Assistant - Minot AFB Library. 1964-1967.

Professional Affiliations

• American Library Association
  • Recipient, 2001 RUSA Isadore Gilbert Mudge - R.R. Bowker Award
• California Library Association

Publications

• Leita, Carole, Search Tools Chart. 1997-2003. Turned over to Joe Barker 11/03.
• Leita, Carole, Search Engines Quick Guide. 1998-2003. Turned over to Joe Barker 11/03.
• Leita, Carole, Best Search Tools Page (Infopeople) 1997-2003. Turned over to Joe Barker 11/03.
• Leita, Carole, Librarians' Index to the Internet. 1992 - 2001. Updated weekly.
• Interviewed for "The Librarian's Librarian: Carole Leita", Gary Price, Searcher Magazine, November/December, 2000, pp. 69-72.
• Interviewed for "By Librarians, For Everyone," Library Highlights, Institute for Museum and Library Services, October, 2000.
• Interviewed for "Librarians' Index to the Internet: By Librarians, for Everyone," (PDF) Connections, California State Library, October, 2000.
• Leita, Carole and Holly Hinman, a chapter on the the Librarians' Index to the Internet, in The Amazing Internet Challenge: How Leading Projects Use Library Skills to Organize the Web, American Library Association, 1999.
• Leita, Carole and Holly Hinman, "A Public Librarian Helps Launch an Index." Library Journal, October, 1998.
• Participant in The Internet Filter Assessment Project, a volunteer project by 40 librarians and information specialists who assessed Internet filters used to block sites and/or keywords, July - September, 1997.
• Cover story, Library Journal, November 15, 1996.
• Technical editor for Web Search Strategies, by Bryan Pfaffenberger. New York, NY MIS/Henry Holt, 1996.
• Leita, Carole, "Netscape 4.x Bookmark Management Tutorial." Written for Infopeople workshops on "Effective Internet Searching Strategies."
• Leita, Carole, "How to Edit Netscape for Public Access Computers." December, 1995, last modified January, 1997
• Leita, Carole, "Getting Started on the Internet at Berkeley Public Library." January, 1995, last modified September, 1997
• Editor, Women Library Worker's Journal. 1976-78.
• Editor, SHARE [Sisters Have Resources Everywhere] : a directory of feminist library workers. Berkeley, CA, Women Library Workers. 4 editions, 1975-1980.
• Co-editor (with Celeste West, Sue Critchfield and Valerie Wheat), Booklegger Magazine, 1974-76.

Presentations and Trainings

• Class currently taught for staff from California's libraries (online and full-day hands-on version coming mid-2004):
  • Free, Fast, and Factual: Carole Leita's Top Online Reference Sources for 2004 and Beyond
• Tutor, Public Internet Use Clinic, 1st and 3rd Sundays each month at the Berkeley Public Library, April, 1997 - to date.

• "Messages in Many Bottles: Collaborative Management of Web Resources," Panel Discussion, LITA Internet Resources Interest Group, ALA Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 16, 2001.
• "What You Need to Make It Work - Successful Models (LII: Team Building & Co-Branding)," SCOUG's Spring 2001 Workshop: Building Information Communities, Burbank, CA, May 4, 2001.
• "Librarians' Index to the Internet and the Web: Past, Present, and Future," College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN, April 28, 2001.
• "Librarians' Index to the Internet: Past, Present, and Future," staff day, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR, April 5, 2001.

• Three half-day workshops, "PowerSearch.1," "Using the Internet for Ready Reference," and "Tips and Tricks for the Wired World," for the California School Library Association 2000 conference, November 15-16, 2000.
• Two half-day workshops of Using the Internet for Ready Reference for the California Library Association 2000 conference, November 13, 2000.
• Panel: "I Wanna Be a Portal: What Would It Take to Turn Our Best Internet Directories into the Next Yahoo!, Only Better?" Internet Librarian 2000, November 7, 2000, Monterey, California.
• Carole Leita's Tips & Tricks for the Wired World, half-day presentation for The Australian Library and Information Association [ALIA], Information Sciences Section, March 29, 2000, Sydney, Australia.

• Ready Reference on the Internet 2002-2003
• The Reference Interview: Asking All the Right Questions 2002-3
• "PowerSearch.1" Day-long hands-on workshop presented around the state to staff from California's libraries (mostly public libraries), 2000.
• "PowerSearch.2" Day-long hands-on workshop presented around the state to staff from California's libraries (mostly public libraries), 2000.
• "Tips & Tricks for Keeping Up in the Wired World" Half-day hands-on workshop presented around the state to staff from California's libraries (mostly public libraries), 2000.
• " Finding It on the Internet: Advanced ." Day-long workshop presented around the state to staff from California's libraries (mostly public libraries), March, 2000.
• " Finding It on the Internet: the Basics ." Day-long workshop presented around the state to staff from California's libraries (mostly public libraries), February, 2000.
• " Using the Internet for Ready Reference ." Day-long workshop presented around the state to staff from California's libraries (mostly public libraries), January, 2000.
• "Introduction to Distance Education." First distance education course from the Infopeople Project, October, 1999.
• " Finding It on the Internet: the Basics ." Day-long workshop presented around the state to staff from California's libraries (mostly public libraries), December, 1998-May, 1999.
• " Advanced Searching ." Day-long workshop presented around the state to California's Infopeople Project members, May-July, 1998.
• " Training the Internet Trainer ." Day-long workshop with Anne Lipow/Roy Tennant, presented around the state to California's Infopeople Project members, February-April, 1998.
• "Effective Searching & Bookmarks Management ." Day-long workshop presented around the state to California's Infopeople Project members, January - March, 1998.
• "Taming the Internet." Three half-day workshops presented to 250 San Francisco Bay Area librarians for the BALIS/PLS/SVLS Systems - October 1997 - March 1998.
• "Planning for Public Internet Access ." Day-long workshop presented around the state to California's Infopeople Project members, December, 1997.
• "Introduction to the WWW & Netscape ." Day-long workshop presented around the state to California's Infopeople Project members, October - November, 1997.
• "Internet Issues." Presentations to School, Institutional, and Special librarians, for the California State Library Networking Workshops, Los Angeles, October 22-24, 1997.
• "Advanced Netscape ." Day-long workshop presented around the state to California's Infopeople Project members, July - September, 1997.
• "Beginning HTML: Creating Your Library's Home Page." Day-long workshop with Roy Tennant presented to California's Infopeople Project members, in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, July - August, 1997.
• "More HTML: Improving Your Library's Home Page." Day-long workshop with Roy Tennant presented to California's Infopeople Project members, in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, July - August, 1997.
• "Finding It On the Internet (Advanced)." Day-long workshop presented around the state to California's Infopeople Project members, April - July, 1997.
• "Finding It On the Internet (Beginning)." Day-long workshop presented around the state to California's Infopeople Project members, January - March, 1997.
• "Tools for Building Accessible Web Pages." Presentation at the California Webmasters Workshop on Access for All, Sacramento, CA, January 29, 1997.
• "Ready, Set, Find It! - Using the Internet for Ready Reference." Presentation at the California Library Association Conference, November, 1996. Included an annotated list of recommended Internet resources and a chart of recommended search tools with explanations.
• "Finding It on the Internet." Day-long workshop on advanced search strategies for San Jose Public Library, August 9, 1996 and October 18, 1996.
• "Internet Resources for Children's Book Authors and Illustrators." Presentation for the USBBY Discovery Conference: How to Publish a Children's Book, October 6, 1996, resources page updated March 26, 1998.
• "Planning for Public Internet Access: Managing Access." (Instructor, with Holly Hinman, Joan Frye Williams and Karen Coyle), day-long workshop presented around the state to California's Infopeople Project members, August - September, 1996.
• "Windows 95 Basics (and then some)." Two half-day hands-on workshops for Sacramento Public Library, June 28 and July 12, 1996.
• "Public Internet Access at BPL." (PowerPoint file). Presentation at Northern California Council on Library/Media Technicians (COLT) Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 21, 1996.
• "Windows Basics." Half-day hands-on workshop presented to California's Infopeople Project members, 6 workshops, in Concord and Cerritos, May, 1996.
• "Public Access Computer Security." (Instructor, with Bill Moseley), half-day workshop presented to California's Infopeople Project members, 2 workshops, in Pleasanton and Cerritos, April, 1996.
• "HTML Home Page Design." (Instructor, with Gary Parks), half-day workshop presented to California's Infopeople Project members, 2 workshops, in Pleasanton and Cerritos, April, 1996.
• "Effective Internet Searching Strategies." (Instructor, with John Ober and Roy Tennant), day-long hands-on workshop presented around the state to California's Infopeople Project members, 9 workshops from Davis to San Diego, January - March, 1996.
• "The World Wide Web - The Internet with a Friendly Face." (co-presenter with John Ober), invited presentation at the California Library Association Annual Meeting, Santa Clara, CA, Nov., 1995.
• Invited presenter "The Internet in California." California Library Services Board, State Library, September, 1995.
• Assistant "WWW Seminars." for Infopeople Project Participants. July/August, 1995. Two hands-on, day-long trainings in designing Web Pages and writing HTML. 40 Librarians.
• Trainer."Using Netscape and the World Wide Web." For the Peninsula Library System, February, 1995. Taught developing and maintaining bookmarks and using the WWW in public settings. Two hands-on classes. 17 librarians.
• Teacher. "Using the Internet at Berkeley Public Library." 2 hour classes teaching the public how to get started using the Internet at the library. Bi-monthly, about 30 people per class. January, 1995 - June, 1997.