Lisa Krajecki

Subject liaison to Early Childhood Education, Teacher Preparation, and Psychology departments Conduct outreach to faculty and staff to support participation in the institutional repository Serve as an embedded librarian in eLearn courses, providing tailored research support and instructional resources

Scholarly Communications Librarian / Assistant Professor at Tennessee State University (2023-05 – Present)

• Subject liaison to Early Childhood Education, Teacher Preparation, and Psychology departments
• Conduct outreach to faculty and staff to support participation in the institutional repository
• Serve as an embedded librarian in eLearn courses, providing tailored research support and instructional resources
• Designed and launched a LibApps-based "Ask a Librarian" chatbot to expand virtual research support for students and faculty
• Identify and locate faculty publications for deposit in the institutional repository
• Provide research consultations and classroom instruction for students and faculty
• Create and maintain LibGuides, including guides for English composition and artificial intelligence
• Taught English 1010 for the Language, Literature, and Philosophy department

Librarian (Research Specialist) (NTE 120 days) at Library of Congress (2023-02 – 2023-04)

• Cataloged documents for the Congressional Research Service (CRS) section
• Built a spreadsheet on embassy contacts

Intern at RosettiStarr (2022-06 – 2022-08)

• Used LexisNexis, public records, and third-party proprietary databases to research people and companies
• Collaborated on reports

Graduate Assistant at American University, Anthropology Department (2021-08 – 2022-05)

• Used Lightworks editing software to split video interview into two easily viewable sections
• Created surveys, collected data, and transcribed student interviews

Oral History Interviewer (Unpaid) at Nursing America's Veterans: Archie Green Fellows Project, Library of Congress (2021-03 – 2021-09)

• Conducted and recorded oral history interviews with veterans under the direction of a project fellow
• Collected firsthand narratives and supported documentation and preservation of interview materials for archival access

Principal Academic Librarian at Virginia University of Lynchburg (2016-08 – 2021-04)

• Led the migration from Winnebago Spectrum to Follett Destiny; learned cataloging, reporting, and discovery functions and trained staff and student workers on the new system
• Managed access to EBSCO databases and supported students and faculty using subscription and open-web research resources
• Oversaw metadata, cataloging, acquisitions, collection development, and donated-materials workflows for an academic library serving more than 180 students
• Created and maintained an online research guide and delivered library-research instruction in up to three classes per semester

Graduate School Research Assistant at American University, Anthropology Department (2020-08 – 2020-11)

• Researched Mary Riddick's Desert Patent: a tract of land owned in Great Dismal Swamp in the 1600s-1700s; learned basic QGIS to overlay hand-drawn maps to current maps, narrowing down location of tract; researched genealogy of Mary Riddick in collaboration with Dr. Becca Peixotto

Graduate School Archival Assistant at Mary Nona McGreal, OP Center for Dominican Historical Studies, Dominican University (2013-09 – 2015-05)

• Sorted, reviewed, and rehoused documents in the Dominican Laity Collection of official documents and correspondence from closed Dominican churches; identified sensitive information in documents and correspondence

MA in Public Anthropology – American University (2022-05)

Graduate Certificate in Health Inequity and Care – American University (2022-05)

MA in Children's Literature – Hollins University (2019-05)

MLIS – Dominican University (2015-05)

Graduate Certificate in Archives and Cultural Heritage Resources and Services – Dominican University (2015-05)

BA in English and Philosophy (double major) – Greenville University (2013-05)