Donny Smith : resume

Donny Smith

email: doksmith@indiana.edu


education | professional experience | other experience

research interests | publications | presentations & exhibitions | editorial activities

committees | organizations | honors | languages


education

graduate program in Turkish Studies
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
August 2005 to present

Master of Science in Library & Information Science
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2002

Bachelor of Science in Education
University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 1988
majors in anthropology and Spanish

 


professional experience

English tutor & editor

September 2005 to present

freelance

duties:

  • providing private lessons in English reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills to international college students

  • proofreading and editing dissertations and academic articles written by international students

 

 

visiting assistant
librarian

September 2004 to June 2005

Cunningham Memorial Library
Indiana State University
Terre Haute IN 47809
812 237-2580

duties:

 

 

reference librarian

April 2003 to August 2004

Neumann College Library
Aston PA 19014
610 558-5545

duties:

  • teaching workshops on information literacy, research techniques, and other topics

  • developing procedures and goals for library information literacy programs

  • answering questions at reference desk and via telephone and email

  • coordinating collection development with academic divisions and library staff

  • managing subscription databases and serials subscriptions

  • designing and maintaining library web site: http://www.neumann.edu/academics/library.asp

  • organizing a literary reading series

 

 

English instructor

January 2004 to May 2004

Writing Program
Neumann College
Aston PA 19014

610 558-5515

 

duties:

  • teaching English 102: Research & Writing (the required second-semester freshman English course)

  • collaborating with other writing faculty to develop lesson plans and materials

indexing consultant

2003

freelance

duties:

  • coordinating preparation of name and subject index for an academic book on archeology

 

 


other experience

circulation specialist,
electronic reserves coordinator
& reference associate

1997 to 2003

McCabe Library
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore PA 19081
610 328-8477

 

duties:

  • maintaining course websites through Eres and Blackboard course management systems

  • communicating with faculty and staff members regarding the reserves system

  • requesting copyright permissions from publishers and authors

  • answering questions at reference desk

  • hiring, training, and supervising student workers

  • troubleshooting hardware and software problems for staff, student workers, and users

  •  planning and teaching workshops on basic research techniques and special topics

  • organizing a variety of displays, exhibitions, and guest speakers

  • cataloging web sites for online catalog

  • selecting Spanish-language books and audiovisual materials for McCabe Library and acting as library liaison to Spanish Department

  • selecting jazz recordings for Underhill Music Library

  • maintaining patron database

  • tracking patron fines, bills, and receipts

 

 

volunteer archivist

1996

Blair County Historical Society
Altoona PA  16603

duties: 

  • locating, organizing, and writing a finding aid for all photographic materials in the society's Baker Mansion

 

 

staff assistant

1993 to 1997

Circulation, Pattee Library
Pennsylvania State University
University Park PA  16802
814 865-5429

duties: 

  • assisting patrons with problems and questions

  • training new staff

  • explaining use of online catalog and databases

  • setting up departmental website

  • assisting with all other circulation activities

 

 

human services instructor

1989 to 1993

Lancaster Office of Mental Retardation
Lincoln NE  68502

duties:

  • caring for persons with mental retardation and autism in a group home

  • implementing instructional programs

  • keeping records

 

 

community services associate

1988 to 1989

Region V Mental Retardation Services
Lincoln NE  68502

duties: 

  • assisting persons with mental retardation, autism, and mental illness in their own homes

  • making assessments

  • writing and implementing instructional programs

  • keeping records

 

 


research interests

 


publications

library-related articles

translations in academic literary journals

selected translations in small-press magazines

selected poems in small-press magazines

selected prose in small-press magazines and anthologies

 


presentations & exhibitions

 


editorial activities

co-editor
2003 to present
Xerography Debt magazine
with special responsibility for the History of Zines series

editor
1993 to present
Dwan bilingual literary magazine
recommended in Bowker's Magazines for Libraries (10th ed.):
"Connecting divergent disciplines, Dwan is pure, sensitive vision."

 


committees

Library Committee
Neumann College
2003 to 2004

SEPCHE Information Literacy Tutorial Task Force
SouthEastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education
2003 to 2004

Information Literacy Task Force
Neumann College
2003 to 2004

Library Advisory Council
staff governance committee, Swarthmore College Libraries
2003

Board of Managers Committee on Social Responsibility
Swarthmore College
2001 to 2002

Tri-College Course Management Systems Task Force
Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford Colleges
2000 to 2003

Digital Services Steering Committee
Swarthmore College Libraries
2000 to 2003

Sager Committee
committee for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender concerns
Swarthmore College
1997 to 2003

search committees for hiring new staff and numerous other internal committees
including web redesign, art, and security committees
Swarthmore College Libraries
1997 to 2003

 


organizations

Association for Cultural Studies
2006 to present

Middle East Studies Association of North America
2006 to present

Indiana University Association of Central Eurasian Students
2005 to present
Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference planning committee, 2006, 2007

Indiana University Turkish Students Association
2005 to present
treasurer, 2006 to 2007
Annual Bloomington Turkish Film Festival planning committee, 2006, 2007

American Literary Translators Association
2001 to present

Delaware Valley Chapter of the Association of College & Research Libraries
2001 to 2004

Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual Support Network
Pennsylvania State University
1994 to 1997

Coalition for Gay & Lesbian Civil Rights
Lincoln, Nebraska
1990 to 1993

 


honors

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship alternate (Arabic)
Center for the Study of Global Change, Indiana University, 2007

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Turkish)
Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Indiana University, 2006 to 2007

Gerd Muehsam Award for Graduate Student Papers
Art Libraries Society of North America, 2002

Student Stipend
Delaware Valley Chapter of the Association of College & Research Libraries, 2001

Carmen Esquenazi-Mayo Scholarship
Spanish Department, University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 1986

National Merit Scholarship
University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 1984 to 1988

Regents Scholarship
University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 1984 to 1988

 


languages

Turkish: read and write, basic speaking knowledge

Spanish: read and write

French: read

Italian, Portuguese & Azeri: basic reading knowledge

Arabic: learning

 


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