Sonja K. Sheffield

Mobile, Alabama

 

 

Education

University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

       Master of Library and Information Science                  Expected: December 2015

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

       Master program Botany                                                Attended 1995-1997 / no degree

Kent State University, Kent, OH

       Bachelor of Biology                                                      December 1994

 

Experience

University of South Alabama, Marx Library Collection Development

Library Technical Assistant II February 2014 – present

• Order books and media for the library; include the creation of purchase orders, checking in the titles and the creation of item records.

• Keep statistics for acquisitions related to book and media ordering.

• Process gift books, including initial weeding.

• Withdraw materials from the collection.

 

University of South Alabama, Marx Library, Interlibrary Loan and Reference

Library Technical Assistant I October 2006 – February 2014

• Processed borrowing and lending requests for Interlibrary Loan

• Kept statistics for Interlibrary Loan (2006-2013), bibliographic instruction (2006-2014) and the Reference Department (2012-2014)

• Created and kept up to date a list of copyright permissions for lending in Interlibrary Loan.

• Worked on the public Reference Desk for 1-2 hours a day.

 

• Gave tours to freshman seminar classes.

• Assisted with bibliographic instruction

• Supervised two students.

 

University of South Alabama, Center for Archaeological Studies

• Archaeologist I January 2001 – July 2006

• Surveyed small sites including field work and evaluation of artifacts in the lab.

• Wrote evaluations of small sites for Mobile County.

• Assisted in surveying larger sites in the field and the evaluation of artifacts in the lab.

• Created pottery database and entered data for a large site with over one million sherds of pottery.

• Assisted in creating new, editable document for the second edition of book using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software on PDF scans of the first edition of the book.

• Organized the center’s library using software for private collections, created the database from scratch.

 

Other Activities

• Team Leader for Making Strides Breast Cancer Awareness March 2014

• American Library Association, student member since 2014

• Alabama Library Association, student member since 2014