Resume

Education

• MSLIS, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, May 2009
• BA Literature/Women’s Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, June 2001

Library Experience

Systems and Metadata Librarian, Sonoma State University, September 2017 – present

• Manage the library’s unified library management system, which controls circulation, acquisitions, electronic resource management, resource sharing, and inventory management
• Work with library staff and faculty to analyze and streamline workflows and processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness, and configure library systems to support workflows and staff needs
• Assess and manage library resource metadata to track acquisitions, inventory, and material usage, and to facilitate discoverability and accessibility of collections
• Configure, assess, and troubleshoot electronic resources in collaboration with Electronic Resource Specialist; evaluate resource metadata and systems to facilitate access to electronic resources
• Manage the library’s discovery layer to ensure library resources are discoverable and accessible, including performing regular assessment and usability testing, collaborating with other CSU librarians, tracking system-wide updates, testing changes to resource metadata, and planning and implementing improvements.
• Collaborate with librarians across the CSU to ensure that system-wide tools meet our users’ needs, to keep system-wide tools running optimally, and to troubleshoot problems as they arise
• Provide work direction to acquisitions specialists, electronic resource management specialist, and metadata specialist to manage the acquisition of materials in all formats, and to create and maintain resource metadata for discoverability and accessibility
• Provide liaison services to several departments in the School of Arts and Humanities, including collection development and management, outreach to and collaboration with faculty, creating and editing subject research guides, providing information literacy instruction to students, and collaborating with library faculty on the development of information literacy curriculum

Web Services Librarian, Sonoma State University, August 2013 – August 2017

• Led the development of the Library’s web services, including planning and managing redesign projects, creating an effective content strategy, managing workflow for updates and content creation, and collaborating with faculty and staff to balance diverse needs
• Assessed user interface and the user experience of the Library’s online tools in order to make determinations about needed improvements, to make recommendations for new purchases and features, and to ensure that we are meeting student and faculty needs
• Provided work direction to the library’s web developer, setting team goals, assigning tasks, coordinating workflow and daily operations, monitoring work, and providing informal coaching, feedback, and guidance
• Collaborated with librarians across the CSU to ensure that system-wide tools meet our users’ needs, to keep system-wide tools running optimally, and to troubleshoot problems as they arise
• On an interim basis, managed the library’s Integrated Library System, including troubleshooting problems, making updates required by policy and practice changes, managing user roles and permissions, and managing integrations with third-party systems
• Managed the library’s migration to a new Unified Library Management System, in coordination with 23 other CSU libraries; managed the library’s ULMS implementation team including identifying and assigning clean up and migration tasks, testing migrated data, implementing system configuration to meeting the library’s needs, and providing training and support to library staff and faculty in preparation for summer 2017 go-live date.
• Provided liaison services to the School of Arts and Humanities, including collection development and management, outreach to and collaboration with faculty, creating and editing subject research guides, providing information literacy instruction to students, and collaborating with library faculty on the development of information literacy curriculum

Metadata Analyst, California Digital Library, April 2011 – August 2013

• Worked with a team of programmers, librarians, and project administrators to build the Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR), a project undertaken in conjunction with the Center for Research Libraries to provide a registry for print archives and collection analysis tools for archiving programs. Launched the project on time despite delays finalizing requirements and receiving data.
• Worked with diverse teams to establish project requirements, milestones, and deliverables, conduct data modeling and analysis for software development, and provide quality assurance testing.
• Worked extensively with library bibliographic and holdings records to provide analysis for a range of systems including PAPR and WorldCat Local.

Systems/Metadata Librarian, Whitman College, July 2009 – April 2011

• Managed integrated library system, including migration to new servers, data clean up, re-indexing, and writing record load and export programs
• Re-designed and built a new library website with support for social networking functions and easy updating for library news and events, easier search capabilities, and streamlined information architecture
• Managed library inventory project
• Managed loading and maintenance of library metadata for government documents, serials, and archiving finding aid
• Worked within the consortium to establish collaborative and shared services

Research and Scholarship

Publications

Shepherd, J. and Krier, L. (2017). “If We Had a Prologue: Lessons from a Systems Migration” in B. R. Bernhardt, L. H. Hinds, K. P Strauch, and L. Meyer (Eds.), What’s Past is Prologue: Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2017. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.

Krier, L. and Stine, K. (2017). “Your Metadata Is Showing: Open Metadata and the Future of Bibliographic Control” in K. L. Smith and K. A. Dickson (Eds.), Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Implementation. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Krier, L. and Strasser, C. (2014). Data Management for Libraries: A LITA Guide. Chicago: ALA TechSource, an imprint of the American Library Association.

Krier, L. (2012). Serials, FRBR, and Library Linked Data: A Way Forward. Journal of Library Metadata, 12(2/3), 177-187. doi:10.1080/19386389.2012.699834

Krier, L. (2012). The Social Justice Impact of Ebooks. SRRT Newsletter Social Responsibilities Round Table, (178), 12.

Krier, L. (2008, December). Students as Technology Leaders. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. pp. 47-48.

Presentations

“From Cart to Reader: Shelf Ready Workflows with Gobi and Alma,” Ex Libris Users of North America, Spokane, WA, May 2018

“If We Had a Prologue: Lessons from a System Migration,” Charleston Conference, Charleston, NC, November 2017, with Jodi Shepherd

“When Staff Become Students: Using Moodle for Alma Training,” Ex Libris Users of North America, Schaumburg, IL, May 2017.

“Content Strategy for Libraries,” Online Northwest, Corvallis, OR, February 2015

Grants and Awards

• Provost’s Strategic Initiative and Innovation Grant. $3,920. 2017-18.
• Applause Award, Sonoma State University, 2017
• ACRL 2015 Early Career Librarian scholarship, January 2015
• Travel Grant, European Semantic Web Conference Summer School. $1,000. June, 2013
• ACRL WA/OR Annual Conference scholarship, October 2010

Continuing Education

• Ex Libris Users of North America conference, Spokane, WA, May 2018
• Ex Libris Primo Certification Program, online, July 2018
• Library Management Skills Institute I: The Manager, Workshop, Sacramento State, March 7-9, 2018
• Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership, Extended Education course, Sonoma State University, Fall 2017
• Planning, Conducting, and Communicating Library Assessment: An Overview, ACRL Webinar, November, 2017
• Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition, Charleston, NC, November 2017
• Ex Libris Users of North America conference, Schaumburg, IL, May 2017
• Ex Libris Functional Training workshop, January 9-12, 2017
• Ex Libris Alma Certification Program, online, June, 2016
• Ex Libris Users of North America conference, Oklahoma City, OK, May 2016
• HTTPS for Libraries workshop, online, March 2016
• Bay Area Drupal Camp, Berkeley, CA, October 2015
• Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, July 2015
• Association of College and Research Libraries conference, Portland, OR, April 2015
• Online Northwest conference, Corvallis, OR, February 2015
• Code4Lib conference, Portland, OR, February 2015
• Bay Area Drupal Camp, San Francisco, CA, November 2014
• edUI conference, Richmond, VA, November 2014
• LODLAM (Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums) Training Day, August, 2014
• Drupal for Libraries, online course, May 2014
• DrupalCamp, Stanford CA, April 2014
• European Semantic Web Conference Summer School, Kalamaki, Crete, Greece, September 2013
• Leading from any Position, Infopeople workshop, December 2012

University Service

• Chair, University Program Review Subcommittee, September 2018 – present
• Member, SSU Strategic Planning Task Force, 2017-18
• Member, CSU Data Visualization Task Force, Spring 2018 – Fall 2018
• Member, CSU Resource Management Working Group, Fall 2017 – June 2018
• Library Faculty Chair, Fall 2016 – present
• Member, Academic Planning, Assessment, and Resources Committee, May 2016 – present
• Participation in Digital/Critical, in collaboration with John Nardine, 2016-17 – Collaborated on designing a digital timeline assignment that enabled students to gain a deeper understanding of stages of the research process
• Member, University Program Review Subcommittee, September 2015 – May 2018
• Chair, Search Committee for Collection Development Librarian, Spring 2017
• Chair, Search Committee for Scholarly Communications and Science Librarian, Spring 2016
• Member, Search Committee for Dean of Extended and International Education, Spring 2016
• Participation in Digital/Critical, in collaboration with David McCuan, 2015-16 – Collaborated to re-design a Political Science course assignment and to teach information and digital literacy skills to students in the course
• Member, Search Committee for Director of Library Information Technology, Fall 2015
• Representative, Academic Senate, March 2014 – present
• Member, Professional Development Subcommittee, January 2015 – June 2016
• Member, Web and Marketing Committee, August 2013 – May 2016
• Member, Search Committee for Deputy Chief Information Officer, Summer 2015
• Member, Search Committee for Director of Risk Management, Summer 2014
• Member, President’s Diversity Council, August 2013 – August 2015

Professional Activities and Service

• Member, ProQuest Literature Advisory Board, April 2018 – present
• Peer reviewer, Journal of Library Metadata, December 2017
• Member, ACRL “College & Research Libraries News” Editorial Board, July 2016 – present
• Secretary, Northern California Technical Processes Group, August 2014 – June 2015
• Participant at National Information Standards Organization BIBFRAME Roadmap meeting, Baltimore, MD, April 2013
• Member, LITA Top Tech Trends Committee, American Library Association, 2013
• Chair, 3M/NMRT Professional Development Grant Committee, American Library Association, 2011
• Action Council Member, Social Responsibilities Round Table, American Library Association, 2012 – 2014
• Reviewer, Library Journal, 2011 – 2016
• Member, LITA Publications Committee, American Library Association, 2011 – 2014