July 2001

RESUME

John F. Connors

AccuFile, Inc.                                                                        Residence Address

40 Broad Street, Suite 215                                                  161 Newport Street

Boston, MA 02109                                                              Arlington, MA 02476-783

(617) 728-3500                                                                     (781) 646-6056

 

Experience

Law Librarian, AccuFile, Inc., Boston, MA                                       

November 1998 - Present

Servicing small to medium sized law firms.  Responsibilities include processing publishers invoices for payment, receiving and logging new materials, routing periodical and resource summaries, processing acquisitions (ordering new materials), book selection and collection evaluation, track and maintain trial offers from publishers, organize looseleaf filing and other library management tasks.

Director of Library Service, Department of Veteran Affairs, Boston MA

1987 - January 1998

Chief of Library Service, VA Medical Center, Albany, NY

1974-1987

Chief of Library Service, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT

1966-1974

Responsible for setting up libraries, moving libraries and maintaining libraries.  Managed a book and periodicals collection with an annual budget of $200,000 for acquisitions.

Supervised a library staff of 12 full-time employees.

Managed medical and scientific research collections to serve the needs of Medical Doctors, PhD’s and Post-Doctoral researchers.

Supervised the maintenance of large medical and patient libraries.  Weeding obsolete material, recommending storage for inactive material and converting to microfilm archival material.  Set up computerized circulation and retrieval systems using cataloguing systems (National Library of Medicine, Library of Congress, OCLC, Dewey Decimal System).

Public Library Experience, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY

Worked at large and small branches and on Bookmobiles in a variety of professional library assignments.

EDUCATION

MLS, Master of Library Science, Simmons College

BS, School of Education, Boston College

PROFESSIONAL

Certified as a Librarian in Massachusetts

Public Librarians Professional Certification, NY

Active in Interlibrary Loan systems at both state and local level

Korean War Veteran

Computer Skills

Microsoft Excel, Word and Access.  Internet research skills.  OCLC searches.