Reports for Stakeholders

I was hired by Columbia University Libraries, a decentralized system of 22 individual library branches at Columbia University in the City of New York, to complete an ambition two-year study entitled The E-Book Program Development Study. The object was to identify how e-books were used by the campus community for research, teaching, and learning purposes. The results guided the standardization of collection development management practices, budgets, and assessment methods across the entire library system.

Within two years, I developed a new budget assessment framework the was used by publishing companies to develop e-book sales models. I also served as a team lead to 50 subject specialists, guiding them through a cost analysis project that resulted in a $250,000 savings in annual subscription prices. The savings were reinvested in the library collection to purchase new research materials.

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Materials Prepared for Grant Submissions

I accepted an 8-week freelance contract with the Access to Justice and Law Reform Institute of Nova Scotia to research and write a literature review discussing the history of access to justice in the province. The project examined historic, legal, and social frameworks that contribute to the definition of justice across the legal system.

The literature review was submitted to the Department of Justice, Government of Nova Scotia, as part of a grant proposal for project funding. The grant was successful and the Law Reform Institute received full funding from the province for a new fiscal year.

Based on the success of the grant submission, I was invited to write a second literature review the link between legal information and human emotion. The finds were used to evaluate services provided to self-represented litigants.

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