Rick C. Mason

Library Acquisitions Assistant at Blackmore Library, Capital University, Columbus, Ohio (2007 - 2011).
Worked with librarians and staff to order library materials; manage shipments; maintain records for invoices and purchase orders; and reconcile financial transactions between Millennium ILS and university accounting systems.

• Prepared and managed Fiscal Close operations on an annual basis.
• Created and maintained a variety of databases to aid in reporting of exported ILS data.
• Operated Millennium Acquisitions, Serials, Circulation and Cataloging modules.
• Created LibWiki, a collaborative staff policies and procedures resource utilizing MediaWiki.
• Created a database of staff/faculty contact information for a campus directory.

Library Assistant - Circulation at Kishwaukee College Library, Malta, Illinois (1993 - 2006).
Oversaw day-to-day operations of circulation including: circulating library materials, supervising computer lab, creating student IDs, and maintaining course reserves.

• Assisted in most areas of Technical Services, including Acquisitions, Cataloging, and Serials.
• Involved in the hiring, training, and supervision of support staff and student aides.
• Developed and led training program for Circulation staff and student aides.
• Generated SQL queries and reports to provide information from Voyager ILS including detailed statistics, shelf lists for program reviews, and inventories.
• Created batch files and web pages for student and staff use.
• Organized two separate inventories of a 40,000+ library collection, including coordinating scanning teams and generating reports and statistics.
• Helped select and implement Voyager ILS, served as vendor contact, primary troubleshooter, and assistant system administrator.

Consultant, DeKalb, Illinois (2002 - 2006).
Consultant for small businesses, libraries and individuals on a variety of computer-related projects.

• PC and network troubleshooting/repair/training.
• Purchase and install computers and related hardware and software.
• Website design.
• Selection, installation, and configuration of ResourceMate ILS for rural community library.

2009 Recipient, ALAO-SSIG Award Of Excellence, Ohio

• Awarded annually to an Ohio library support staff member.

St. Patrick's Episcopal Church, Dublin, Ohio (2007 - Present)

• Library: Installed and maintained OpenBiblio ILS for 1,500 item collection (2009-2018)
• Webmaster: Installed and maintained Wordpress-based parish website (2015-2018)
• Server Administrator: Maintained Linux web and mail servers for parish (2016-2018)

Reaching Forward South : Conference for Library Support Staff (2002 - 2006)
Served as part of a group directorship overseeing an annual state-wide conference. Created conference website (archived), including two revisions incorporating online registration and payment.

• Moderator Chair (2002-2005)
• Webmaster (2003-2006)
• Vice-Chair/Treasurer/Registration (2005-2006)

Kishwaukee College Health and Safety Committee (2004 - 2006)

• Co-chair of the recycling sub-committee, responsible for analyzing and submitting a detailed report of the college's waste stream to the State of Illinois in 2005.
• Participated in establishing campus-wide disaster planning procedures in 2006.

Delaware County Board of Elections (2011 - present)

• Serve as Precinct Election Official, including Voting Location Manager.

Libology Blog (2006 - 2014)
Originally created as LibrarySupportStaff.org, Libology Blog was a discussion of libraries, technology, and related ideas (ISSN 1946-1852).

University of Wisconsin - Platteville Platteville, WI (August 1985 - May 1986).

Kishwaukee College Malta, IL (May 1990 - May 1994).

Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL (January 1987 - May 1987, August 1994 - May 1995).

Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, NH (January 2024 -).

Creating Batch Files for Automating Tasks in the Voyager Library Automation System

• Great Lakes User Group Meeting (GLUGM) (Chicago, IL, October 2003)

Open Source Software and Libraries

• Reaching Forward South : Conference for Library Support Staff (Springfield, IL, September, 2004)
• Reaching Forward South : Conference for Library Support Staff (Springfield, IL, September, 2005)
• Rolling Prairie Library System Seminar (Decatur, IL, March 2006)

Creating and Running A Conference for Library Support Staff

• American Library Association (ALA) conference (Chicago, IL, June 2005)
  (Co-presented with Reaching Forward South co-director)

Create a Website on the Cheap!

• Rolling Prairie Library System seminar (Decatur, IL, March 2006)

Open Source Software and You

• Kishwaukee College National Library Week workshop (Malta, IL, April 2006)

Moderator : Banned Books Week Panel Discussion on Censorship

• Kishwaukee College Banned Books Week event (Malta, IL, September 2006)

Metasearch / APIs / Facebook for Libraries
My suggestion for this unconference was library software APIs, which was rolled into this group session.

• One Big Library Unconference (York University, Toronto, Ontario, June 27, 2008)

Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows
• Linux (Mint, CentOS, and Ubuntu)
• Google Chrome

Office Suites

• Microsoft Office, including Access
• OpenOffice & LibreOffice, including Base

Library Management Systems

• OpenBiblio
• Millennium
• Voyager
• ResourceMate

Web Technologies

• HTML5/CSS3
• Server Administration
• Mail Lists
• Wiki - MediaWiki
• Blog/CMS - WordPress
• MySQL Database

Hardware

• Installation and management of a wide range of PC and related hardware.