Title image reading "Katherine M. Dunneback: A Web Portfolio"

Direct any questions to KMDunneback{at}aol.com

Technological Skills

Databases - EbscoHost, notably NoveList, MasterFile, AcademicSearch Elite and Health and Wellness Resource Center, CQ Researcher, ReferenceUSA, and FirstSearch

Web design - Dreamweaver, CSS, HTML

Computer networks - Wired and wireless networking technologies

Websites

Book-A-Month (BAM) Challenge - Weblog where I present monthly themed reading challenges and provide booklists to assist with the participants' individual selections. As of September 2008 there are approximately 20 to 30 regularly participating individuals, and a few challenges have been provided by participants.

The Young Librarian - Website of resources geared to young and new librarians. Resources currently include a weblog, articles by and for new and young librarians, a form I developed for keeping track of the job search process, a listing of which states require certification for public librarians and links to those requirements where available and an archive of polls.

UIUC Veterinary Medicine Library - As part of my graduate assistantship, I managed this website. During my tenure, the site was redesigned by an in-house graphic designer, and I assisted the head librarian in determining how the main page links should be laid out in order to optimize a user's time in navigating it.

Publishing Credits

Punch Up Your Portfolio! - article on putting together print and electronic portfolios written for the LISCareer.com July 2004 issue.

Work Projects

Readers' Advisory portfolio - Electronic portfolio I created to document some of my readers' advisory skills.

Resource Guide for Technology Skills - This guide had not been updated since its creation in 1999. As a special project in 2003 while working for the UIUC GSLIS Instructional Technology Office, I revised the layout from a single page with internal anchors to a multi-page site separated by topic to reduce the amount of scrolling a user needed to do. I also updated the bibliographies and links for each section and created new sections as needed.

Class Projects

Earthquake webliography - A short webliography prepared as an assignment for LIS 412LE - Science Reference Spring 2003 semester.