Catherine Pellegrino

c_pellegrino [at] world [dot] oberlin [dot] edu

Library Experience

• Coordinate information literacy activities of the library, including:
  • Provide information literacy instruction to courses in the curriculum.
  • Provide orientation activities for new and returning students during the summer and early in the semester.
  • Do outreach to new and returning faculty to encourage them to work with the library on research assignments.
  • Do outreach to students at all levels to encourage them to use the library’s resources and come to us for help with research assignments.
  • Advocate for information literacy throughout the college curriculum.
• Participate in providing a full range of reference services, including in-person, email, phone, and virtual reference service.
• Participate in faculty governance through committee service.

• Coordinated and completed a one-year project to build the library’s collections in support of the mission of the Center, including:
  • Consulted with faculty in Women’s Studies, InterCultural Studies, related departments, and CWIL staff to identify subject areas relevant to the project.
  • Assessed the current collection in relevant subject areas.
  • Identified resources – including books, videos, and reference materials – for purchase.
  • In consultation with faculty, prioritized purchase lists.
  • Managed the assigned project budget to ensure optimal use of resources.
  • Prepared documentation, including annotated bibliographies, to publicize and increase usage of the new materials.
• Worked with departmental faculty and staff to unify isolated departmental video collections, making them accessible to the entire college community.
• Participated in CWIL programming and other activities, including colloquia and conferences.

• Assisted Librarian for Instruction and Undergraduate Research in providing library instruction and supporting the department’s instruction program, including leading instruction sessions, collecting support materials for teaching librarians, and assessing instruction outcomes.
• Participated in providing a full range of reference services, including in-person, phone, e-mail, and virtual reference service.
• Planned and coordinated library-wide open house for new first-year students at the beginning of the fall term, involving all public service departments.
• Maintained and enhanced internal staff instruction web pages, developing new content and designing new page templates.
• Supervised two part-time graduate assistants who support the instruction program.
• Collaborated with Special Collections staff to install an exhibit honoring our new chancellor.
• Developed and completed a project in the Acquisitions department, analyzing pricing data for bundled serial packages:
  • Collected data on expenditures for serial packages to determine inflationary trends.
  • Designed a database to hold the data that will be compatible with our electronic resources management system.
  • Projected 3, 5, and 10-year scenarios for serials expenditures given current inflation rates.
• Collaborated with Development and External Relations staff to launch and sustain the Libraries’ capital campaign, in coordination with a University-wide campaign:
  • Assisted with planning and execution of campus-wide event to kick off public phase of campaign.
  • Constructed web pages for Development office and Friends of the Library, developing a distinctive graphic presence for these departments and the capital campaign.
  • Developed, wrote, and published a cohesive set of human-interest pieces on specific donors and their stories, including photographs, interviews, and narrative text.

• Managed a collection of over 200 active serial subscriptions.
• Provided specialized reference service to Music department faculty and students.
• Cataloged music scores from copy on OCLC.
• Retrospectively converted music score records from card catalog to online MARC format.
• Maintained web pages, created new content and layouts, updated pages to new site-wide design templates.
• Solved a wide range of holdings, location, and status problems with materials in all formats.
• Trained and supervised student assistants in retrospective tattle-taping project.
• Assisted in moving the entire library collection into newly renovated space in summer 2003.

• Assisted patrons at the reference desk.
• Provided virtual reference service using Tutor.com’s Virtual Reference Desk system.
• Assisted with bibliographic instruction sessions for undergraduates in various courses.

• Assisted patrons at the circulation/reference desk.
• Provided virtual reference service using Tutor.com’s Virtual Reference Desk system.
• Managed reserve collection of over 300 titles and over 40 courses.
• Maintained web pages:
  • Converted many to standards-compliant XHTML.
  • Wrote new content and code, including a collection of pages on careers in natural resources.
  • Monitored code for ADA/Section 508 compliance.
  • Developed lists of selected links to valuable web resources in nine subject areas.
• Wrote and published monthly newsletter in print and HTML formats.
• Tracked monograph orders and verified cataloging of new items.

Teaching Experience

1999-2000 Visiting Instructor of Music, The University of the South (Sewanee)

• Taught undergraduate courses in music appreciation and advanced music theory.

1997-98 Visiting Instructor of Music Theory, Oberlin College

• Taught full load (3 courses per term) of undergraduate courses in music theory.

1994-97 Part-Time Acting Instructor in Music, Yale University

• Taught undergraduate courses in music theory and musicianship (ear-training) skills.

Education

Computer Skills

Publications

Pellegrino, Catherine. Review of Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond, by Matthew Brown. Notes (Journal of the Music Library Association) 63/1 (September 2006): 90-93. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/notes/v061/61.3pellegrino.html

———. Review of Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music, by Michael Broyles. Notes 61/3 (March 2005): 754-757. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/notes/v061/61.3pellegrino.html

———. “Aspects of closure in the music of John Adams.” Perspectives of New Music 40/1 (Winter 2003): 147-175.

Languages

• Reading knowledge of German
• Some reading knowledge of French
• Bibliographic knowledge of Italian and Latin sufficient for music cataloging

Professional Affiliations

• American Library Association (ALA)
• Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)

Full contact information and references are available upon request; please send email to c_pellegrino [at] world [dot] oberlin [dot] edu.