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My professional interests as a librarian include:

• integration of electronic resources and traditional library collections
• usage patterns, resource discovery and search behavior for online resources
• web development and open-source solutions for database-driven websites
• collection access, particularly cataloging and metadata for visual and cultural objects
• the social life of information

My professional interests as an art historian include American modernism, the Prairie School, and progressivism, as well as advertising, branding and identity design.

University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
M.A. in Art History, May 2009

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
M.S. in Library and Information Science, May 2003

Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
B.A. in English; B.A. in Art History, May 1998

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Publications

"Lessons of Good Customer Service." By Amy Fry. Library Journal vv.is (1 September 2009): pp-pp.

"Information is Power - Even When It's Wrong." By Amy Fry. Guest post to ACRLog, 11 September 2008.

"Aggregated Interdisciplinary Databases and the Needs of Undergraduate Researchers." By Barbara Fister, Julie Gilbert and Amy Fry. portal: Libraries and the Academy 8, no. 3 (2008): 273-292.

"Electronic Resources & Libraries 2nd Annual Conference." By Millie Jackson, Ayse Gider, Celeste Feather, Kelly Smith, Amy Fry, Jamene Brook-Kieffer, Christopher D. Vidas, and Rose Nelson. Library Hi-Tech News 24, no. 4 (2007): 4-17.

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"Best Practices and User Testing for Resource Record and Databases-by-Subject Page Design in the Millennium ERM." Presentation at the 2009 Eastern Great Lakes Innovative Users Group Annual Conference, Akron, OH, 25 September 2009.
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"Expanded Search Premier Complete: Librarian and Undergraduate Attitudes Toward Interdisciplinary Aggregated Databases." Presentation at the Electronic Resources and Libraries 2008 Conference, Atlanta, GA, 19 March 2008. With Julie Gilbert.
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"High Fidelity Design: Purcell & Elmslie's Edison Shops and Prairie Commercial Architecture." Presentation at the Second Annual Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Student Symposium, St. Paul, MN, 15 September 2007.

"Linking the SFX Knowledgebase and the OPAC: The Perspective of a Small Liberal Arts College." Presentation at the First Annual Regional Ex Libris Users' Meeting, St. Paul, MN, 8 March 2006.
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"'It's Not Free?': Exploring the Costs of Interlibrary Loan." Paper presented at the Sixth Annual MOBIUS Users Conference, Lake Ozark, MO, 8 June 2005.
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"Interlibrary Loan for Access: Focus on Audiovisual Materials and Special Collections." Paper presented at the Fourth Annual Brick & Click Libraries Symposium, Maryville, MO, 22 October 2004.
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"Interlibrary Loan & Collection Development: Using ILL Requests for More Than Just Borrowing." Presentation at the Fifth Annual Mobius Users Conference, Lake Ozark, MO, 3 June 2004.
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Membership in National Associations

• American Library Association
  - RUSA MARS Local Systems and Services Committee
• ALA ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries)
  - Arts Section

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San Diego Historical Society Research Library, San Diego, CA Volunteer, summer 2008 Processing artists' archival collections and creating finding aids, beginning with San Diego painter and muralist Belle Baranceanu (1902-1988).

San Diego Museum of Art Library, San Diego, CA Volunteer, summer 2008 Processing archival collections and creating finding aids, including the papers of museum benefactor Earle W. Grant, artist Ruth Powers Ortlieb and correspondence to artist Alfred R. Mitchell.

Website: Shakespeare's Monarchs, summer 2008 An online exhibit presenting the material culture of late medieval England (1377-1485) within the textual context of Shakespeare's eight major history plays. Created as part of an independent study for the M.A. in art history program at the University of St. Thomas.

University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives, Minneapolis, MN Graduate Intern, summer 2007 Digitized advertising artwork and corporate identity design created by William Purcell for the Alexander Brothers Leather & Belting Company between 1916-1919. To be incorporated into the William Gray Purcell Papers at the Northwest Architectural Archives at the University of Minnesota. The project involved scanning materials, creating 278 metadata records in accordance with local and national standards, and researching and writing a collection overview for the Archives' website.

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