Lija Bentley

1512 Gilbert Court., V26 / Ann Arbor, MI 48105

(734) 327-9066 / lija@umich.edu

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Education
	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Master of Science in Information, Library and Information Services, 1997 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bachelor of Arts in History and Russian, 1996 Moscow Linguistic University, Moscow, Russia. Studied Russian Language, Culture, and History, 1/96-5/96
Technical Skills
	Operating Systems MacOS UNIX Windows Imaging/Multimedia Adobe Photoshop Macromedia Director Adobe Pagemaker Adobe Illustrator Web Publishing HTML, CSS Macromedia Dreamweaver Symantec Visual Page Database VB/Microsoft Access PHP/MySQL Digitization Hardware Slide Scanning Flatbed Scanning Digital Photography Office Production Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel
Language Skills
	Proficient Russian, reading knowledge of French, familiar with German. Able to recognize and manipulate many Western and Eastern European languages in cataloging context. Certified to teach English as a second language by the University of Pennsylvania School of Education, 1995.
Work Experience
1/99 - Present	Training Coordinator, Office of Academic Outreach, School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Arrange and execute technical, continuing education, soft skills training program for students, faculty, and staff. Teach workshops and short courses on computing environment, and web-oriented technical skills. Provide reference, research consultation, and bibliographic instruction in Shapiro Undergraduate library as a directed field experience. Provide technical training, support, and guidance to students working on web and database academic projects. Provide support for the Digital Tool Kit, academic/professionally oriented short courses on technological issues. Write documentation, provide desktop support for faculty, staff, and students. Designed and implemented relational student information database for Digital Tool Kit. Created and maintain PEP training web site (http://www.si.umich.edu/pep/training/).
1/98 ­ 12/98	Systems Administrator, School of Information Computing Support, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Selected hardware, software, and peripherals for Mac, PC, and Unix environment. Negotiated and contracted for installation, repair work, large scale software purchases with vendors. Participated in benchmarking budget for the department. Supported Mac and PC workstations in Unix, Appleshare, Novell Netware networked environment. Provided account, web server support on UNIX servers. Provided research lab, classroom audio, video, multimedia, and teleconferencing technical support and equipment purchase. Redesigned, updated and maintained SI Computing web site.
1/97-12/97	Digital Information and Access Dissemination Lab Assistant, School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Instructed students in use of Macintosh and Unix applications. Selected, cataloged, and maintained library cataloging documentation and software manual library. Troubleshot Macintosh hardware, multimedia peripherals, and software.
1/97-10/97	Aquisitions Student Assistant, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Logged and inscribed Slavic, Eastern and Western European language monographs in Notis (INNOPAC) acquisitions environment. Identified and processed duplicate materials.
9/96-12/97	Slavic and East European Area Studies Program Student Assistant, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Performed limited copy cataloging of resources in a variety of Slavic, East European, Central Asian languages. Ran bibliographic searches in OCLC, NOTIS (Mirlyn) environments for monographic and serial publications. Researched and organized early Twentieth century microforms of samizdat and small-run newspapers of remote areas of the Soviet Union as a directed field experience. Reorganized backlog and reference areas.
Additional Experience
6/94 ­12/95	Editor, Language Analysis Center, University of Pennsylvania. Corrected errors in OCR processed foreign language dictionaries, primarily in Hungarian, French, Russian. Tagged using SGML.
Summer 92, 93	Marketing Intern, The Rouse Company, Owings Mills Town Center. Planned, implemented 1993 Back-To-School fashion show, including model search, support staff hiring, vendor relations. Cross-trained in management training program with managers of Physical Plant, Marketing, Customer Service. Participated in creation of Christmas 1992, 1993 marketing plans, negotiation of contracts with sub-contractors, health code inspections.
Awards and Scholarships
	1997-98 Kenneth R. Vance Scholarship, School of Information scholarship presented on basis of academic achievement. 1998 Edmon Low Award, student-nominated award given to School of Information students on basis of professional promise and leadership.