RESUMÉ

Work Experience

Since 8/2007 DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY, SAN RAFAEL www.dominican.edu

Instructor. Teaching information literacy class.

Since 4/2007 SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY, SAN FRANCISCO www.sfpl.org

Reference Librarian. Answering patrons' questions at reference desk, collection development, explaining library policies, instructing patrons in use of library catalog and other resources, outreach, and library programming.

Since 10/2004 ACADEMY OF CHINESE CULTURE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, OAKLAND www.acchs.edu

Instructor. Teaching class on the history of Chinese medicine.

11/2005-3/2007 SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY, SAN FRANCISCO www.sfpl.org

Library page. Check-in, check-out, answering patron's questions, library card registration, book and fines pay, sorting, and shelving.

12/2003-8/2004 ASIAN ART MUSEUM, SAN FRANCISCO www.asianart.org

As-needed office assistant. Worked part time as assistant of the chief curator. Duties included compiling and formatting a bibliography for an upcoming exhibition catalog on Thai art, phones, calendaring, and other office duties.

1/2002-4/2003 MSR MANAGEMENT, SAN FRANCISCO

Freelance administrative assistant. Event organization, bookkeeping, filing, data base management, mass mailings, calendaring for CEO, and other administrative tasks.

8/2002-3/2003 ASIAN ART MUSEUM, SAN FRANCISCO www.asianart.org

Freelance video researcher. Wrote, directed and produced 3 videos on Chinese art (Chinese archaeology, Forbidden City, Chinese calligraphy) on view in the new museum galleries.

10/1999 to 2/2001 MUNICH FOUND, MUNICH, GERMANY www.munichfound.de

Contributor. Wrote exhibition reviews in English for Munich's monthly English-language city magazine with a circulation of 30,000.

6/2000 to 10/2000 PRESTEL PUBLISHING, MUNICH, GERMANY www.prestel.com

Freelance editor. Hired to replace one of the two editors in the English department until a new native English editor had been found. Responsible for all editorial duties including contact with authors, Project planning (including a projected architecture series in conjunction with the Harvard School of Design), and coordination of book projects. Also did proofreading and editing in German.

2/1999 to 5/2000 PRESTEL PUBLISHING, MUNICH, GERMANY www.prestel.com

Internship. Involved at all stages of the publishing process. Given responsibility to coordinate projects (Museums for a New Millennium, History of Chinese Medicine), compiled biography of Lewis W. Hine for a book on child labor photography, compiled indexes and bibliographies, translated from German into English and from English into German, entered and checked corrections, organized picture material, did research, and wrote texts for the sales catalog.

8/1997-12/1997 DEPARTMENT OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES, LM UNIVERSITY, MUNICH, GERMANY www.uni-muenchen.de

Responsible for the entire slide collection for Chinese art history. Substantially enlarged the slide collection and introduced a new system of organization. Independently chose images to be included, photographed and framed them.

12/1996-7/1997 DEPARTMENT OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES, LM UNIVERSITY, MUNICH, GERMANY www.uni-muenchen.de

Assistant to the Head of the Department, Professor Ptak. Wrote correspondence in English and German, handled all incoming calls, responsible for library budget, and worked closely with staff librarians.

6/1996-12/1996 DEPARTMENT OF ETHNOLOGY, LM UNIVERSITY, MUNICH, GERMANY www.uni-muenchen.de

Assistant for research project in conjunction with the Bavarian State Library. Cataloged books for research library, assisted with administrative tasks, and did library research.

Education

1/2004-12/2006 SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN JOSE

MLIS (Master of Library and Information Science), 2006

11/1991-8/1998 LM UNIVERSITY, MUNICH, GERMANY

M.A., 1998 Major: Chinese studies; minors: Chinese art and archaeology, German language studies

8/1993-9/1994 FU-JEN UNIVERSITY, TAIPEI, TAIWAN

One-year scholarship for Chinese language and culture studies

10/1990-6/1991 HADELAND HIGHSCHOOL, BRANDBU, NORWAY

Intensive Norwegian language studies during stay as au-pair

Additional Information

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY:

Fluent in German, Chinese and Norwegian.
Basic knowledge of Japanese.
Able to read Swedish, Danish and Latin.

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE:

Experienced in the use of the following programs for PC and MacIntosh: Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, Outlook, Photoshop, Quickbooks. Basic knowledge of XHTML,CSS, and JavaScript.

LIBRARY SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE:

Basic knowledge of MARC formatting, AACR2R, LCSH, LCC and Dewey-Decimal.