Laura Burdette Melton

Education

University of Washington, Masters of Library and Information Science student (degree expected June 2004)
Mount Holyoke College, European Studies and German Studies double major, B.A., magna cum laude

Job Experience

September 1999 - May 2000:: Assistant in the Language Resource Center at Mount Holyoke; provided multimedia (computer, audio, video) support to students and faculty
June and July 2000:: General counselor at Merriwood Ranch summer riding camp; led campers through swimming, tennis, and riding activities
March and April 2001:: Internship at the Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, Germany; worked in archives, learned from staff about their aspects of the museum, learned Faust database program
September 2001 - May 2002:: Administrative Fellow in the International Affairs Office at Mount Holyoke; redesigned office webpage, helped develop a career center workshop for jobs abroad, designed surveys to discover students' needs, revised study abroad handbook, and helped advise prospective study abroad students
April 2003 to date:: ITS Student Intern at the King County Library System; managed Dynix ILS, developed new system functionality and trained staff to use it, and worked to improve library services, both independently and in cooperation with other staff

Study Abroad

September 1996 - July 1997:: AFS exchange in Burgundy, France; dealt with culture shock and host family conflicts
September 2000 - July 2001:: Smith College in Hamburg, Germany; lived and worked independently in an unfamiliar academic and cultural system

Skills

Languages:: English (mother language), French (very good), German (very good)
Computers:: Web skills: HTML, CSS, SSI, Javascript, CGI, PHP, accessible design; Windows 95/98/2000/XP, Linux (Mandrake), word processing, scanning, OCR; CVS, relational databases (MySQL), Dreamweaver, PowerPoint, PhotoShop; Basic knowledge: Mac OS, Unix, spreadsheets, C++, Perl
Other:: Braillist in training

Web Portfolio

Writer and designer of semi-official Frequently Asked Questions document for college computer newsgroup:: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/network/q1/
Designer of Mount Holyoke International Affairs website:: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/ia/
Co-maintainer of a section of a Terry Pratchett fan website:: http://www.lspace.org/fandom/afp/meets/
Personal web page:: http://students.washington.edu/lbmelton/

Please contact me via my webmail script. For obvious reasons, I will not provide physical or telephone contact information on a publicly-accessible page; also, I object to listing an email address which will likely be used much more by spammers than by people wishing to offer me a job. It is my intention that webmail be at least as easy as if I gave out my email address. If you really want to piece it together, my username is "lbmelton", and the domain is "u.washington.edu".