Rick C. Mason
A library team member who accurately performs duties, keeping customer and co-worker service a top priority. Takes on and completes projects with an eye towards improving procedures, quality, and efficiency.
Professional
Experience
Library Acquisitions Assistant at Blackmore Library, Capital University, Columbus, Ohio (2007 - 2011).
Worked with librarians and staff to order library materials; manage shipments; maintain records for invoices and purchase orders; and reconcile financial transactions between Millennium ILS and university accounting systems.
- Prepared and managed Fiscal Close operations on an annual basis.
- Created and maintained a variety of databases to aid in reporting of exported ILS data.
- Operated Millennium Acquisitions, Serials, Circulation and Cataloging modules.
- Created LibWiki, a collaborative staff policies and procedures resource utilizing MediaWiki.
- Created a database of staff/faculty contact information for a campus directory.
Library Assistant - Circulation at Kishwaukee College Library, Malta, Illinois (1993 - 2006).
Oversaw day-to-day operations of circulation including: circulating library materials, supervising computer lab, creating student IDs, and maintaining course reserves.
- Assisted in most areas of Technical Services, including Acquisitions, Cataloging, and Serials.
- Involved in the hiring, training, and supervision of support staff and student aides.
- Developed and led training program for Circulation staff and student aides.
- Generated SQL queries and reports to provide information from Voyager ILS including detailed statistics, shelf lists for program reviews, and inventories.
- Created batch files and web pages for student and staff use.
- Organized two separate inventories of a 40,000+ library collection, including coordinating scanning teams and generating reports and statistics.
- Helped select and implement Voyager ILS, served as vendor contact, primary troubleshooter, and assistant system administrator.
Consultant, DeKalb, Illinois (2002 - 2006).
Consultant for small businesses, libraries and individuals on a variety of computer-related projects.
- PC and network troubleshooting/repair/training.
- Purchase and install computers and related hardware and software.
- Website design.
- Selection, installation, and configuration of ResourceMate ILS for rural community library.
Recognition
2009 Recipient, ALAO-SSIG Award Of Excellence, Ohio
- Awarded annually to an Ohio library support staff member.
Related
Experience
St. Patrick's Episcopal Church, Dublin, Ohio (2007 - Present)
- Library: Installed and maintained OpenBiblio ILS for 1,500 item collection (2009-2018)
- Webmaster: Installed and maintained Wordpress-based parish website (2015-2018)
- Server Administrator: Maintained Linux web and mail servers for parish (2016-2018)
Reaching Forward South : Conference for Library Support Staff (2002 - 2006)
Served as part of a group directorship overseeing an annual state-wide conference. Created conference website (archived), including two revisions incorporating online registration and payment.
- Moderator Chair (2002-2005)
- Webmaster (2003-2006)
- Vice-Chair/Treasurer/Registration (2005-2006)
Kishwaukee College Health and Safety Committee (2004 - 2006)
- Co-chair of the recycling sub-committee, responsible for analyzing and submitting a detailed report of the college's waste stream to the State of Illinois in 2005.
- Participated in establishing campus-wide disaster planning procedures in 2006.
Delaware County Board of Elections (2011 - present)
- Serve as Precinct Election Official, including Voting Location Manager.
Publication
Libology Blog (2006 - 2014)
Originally created as LibrarySupportStaff.org, Libology Blog was a discussion of libraries, technology, and related ideas (ISSN 1946-1852).
Education
University of Wisconsin - Platteville Platteville, WI (August 1985 - May 1986).
Kishwaukee College Malta, IL (May 1990 - May 1994).
Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL (January 1987 - May 1987, August 1994 - May 1995).
Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, NH (January 2024 -).
Presentations
& Workshops
Creating Batch Files for Automating Tasks in the Voyager Library Automation System
- Great Lakes User Group Meeting (GLUGM) (Chicago, IL, October 2003)
Open Source Software and Libraries
- Reaching Forward South : Conference for Library Support Staff (Springfield, IL, September, 2004)
- Reaching Forward South : Conference for Library Support Staff (Springfield, IL, September, 2005)
- Rolling Prairie Library System Seminar (Decatur, IL, March 2006)
Creating and Running A Conference for Library Support Staff
- American Library Association (ALA) conference (Chicago, IL, June 2005)
(Co-presented with Reaching Forward South co-director)
Create a Website on the Cheap!
- Rolling Prairie Library System seminar (Decatur, IL, March 2006)
Open Source Software and You
- Kishwaukee College National Library Week workshop (Malta, IL, April 2006)
Moderator : Banned Books Week Panel Discussion on Censorship
- Kishwaukee College Banned Books Week event (Malta, IL, September 2006)
Metasearch / APIs / Facebook for Libraries
My suggestion for this unconference was library software APIs, which was rolled into this group session.
- One Big Library Unconference (York University, Toronto, Ontario, June 27, 2008)
Technolgies
Summary
Operating Systems
- Microsoft Windows
- Linux (Mint, CentOS, and Ubuntu)
- Google Chrome
Office Suites
- Microsoft Office, including Access
- OpenOffice & LibreOffice, including Base
Library Management Systems
- OpenBiblio
- Millennium
- Voyager
- ResourceMate
Web Technologies
- HTML5/CSS3
- Server Administration
- Mail Lists
- Wiki - MediaWiki
- Blog/CMS - WordPress
- MySQL Database
Hardware
- Installation and management of a wide range of PC and related hardware.