My Online Portfolio

The irony of making my online portfolio the least accessible part of my website is not lost on me. I like avoiding tables where I can, but this seemed like the most efficient way to format it all. If this makes it difficult for you to retrieve the information, please contact me, and I'll get it to you in some other format.


small screen shot of management portfolio logoManagement Portfolio - This was a group project for LIS 2700, written with four other students. It includes a needs assessment (we called it "environmental scan"), budget, and staffing plan for an imaginary institution, based loosely on the California University of Pennsylvania.
small screen shot of the handoutA handout about Twitter - I put this together for SLA Pittsburgh's "Reverse Mentoring" night. Six library students showed professional librarians how to use various Web 2.0 technologies, and I was the designated Twitter person. On one side it shows some common Twitter conventions, and on the other it shows some applications I thought special librarians might find useful.
small screen shot of crosswalkMetadata Presentation - I gave a brief (and irreverent) overview of some of the differences between Dublin Core and MODS. The highlight of the presentation is an example crosswalk of the DC and MODS metadata for a digital image.
small preview of Facebook displayMy Library Week "Facebook" Display - I made a poster to look like a Facebook page, with various facts about CMU's Engineering & Science Library. It got some student attention, actually, which was pretty nice. I apologize for the graininess; if someone gets a better photo, I'll replace this one.
small version of posterEbook Readers Poster - Final project for LIS 2000, built by my 3-person group. It doesn't necessarily show an eye for design, but, keeping in mind that the Kindle 2.0 hadn't been announced when it was made, it still has some pretty good information.
title pageRecruitment Plan - As part of our Academic Libraries class, we each made a recruitment plan for an academic librarian position. It was limited to 5 pages. I chose to recruit an Engineering Librarian, because I thought it would be fairly unique among my classmates.
screen shot of CIT Library BlogCIT Library Blog - I suggested this blog to help CMU's Engineering & Science Library to reach out to its CIT population, and, to date (it's the last week of May, 2009, as I write this), everything in it has been written by me. My next project is to get our fantastic full-time E&S Librarians to start populating it.
screen shot of chat sessionVirtual reference answers - A collection of answers I've given to e-mail and chat reference questions, with patron information removed.
small screen shot of grant title pageGrant Proposal - I can't put this one online, as it was for a real library. They did not submit it yet, but it contains similar content to their planned submission. If you'd like to see it, send an e-mail to coral dot hess at gmail dot com, and I can send you a copy.
screen shot of web siteARC Website - I'm not maintaining this anymore, but it is fundamentally unchanged from when I was. It's not so much proof that I can design a site (you're looking at a site I designed and hand-coded, myself, right now), as it is proof that I could figure out and maintain someone else's site, a few years ago. As a bonus, it links to a few of my papers (under "Jessica C." rather than "J. Coral").