Committee Planning Report

**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report

**Date: October 13, 2006

**Committee Name: Resume Review Service Committee

**Supervising Board Member: Katie Dunneback, Member Services Director

**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs: Johnna Childs Johnna Childs (co-chair), Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen (co-chair)

**Committee members:

Angie Kelleher

Amanda Myers

Nanako Kodaira

Maureen Cropper

Kristina Keogh

Stacy Brown

**Committee Charge:

The Resume Review Service Committee gives NMRT members an opportunity to have their resumes and/or cover letters reviewed via e-mail by experienced professionals in the field. In addition, the Committee provides on-site resume reviewing for job seekers in a booth at the ALA Placement Center at Annual and Midwinter conferences

**2006 - 2007 Project Description / Goals:

In addition to continuing to provide and expand our e-mail and conference resume review services, we will do the following:

• Bookkeeping – Consolidate committee documentation to one location so it's accessible to committee chairs and members. Update the Committee “tip sheet” to make the transition easier for future committee chairs.

• Interview coaching – Devise and implement an interview coaching service for the conference review service. Solicit input from committee members, current reviewers, and experienced librarians on how to such a service should work

• Greater online publicity – Increase our publicity by use of the ALA conference wiki and the ALA Placement Center Web site. We will work with the ALA Placement Center and career resources people to gain greater visibility through these avenues. Increase our publicity in other online and print venues as well. We especially need to make more public librarians aware of our service

• Web presence – Update our NMRT web page and our Committee wiki. Re-organize and make enhancements to those web sites, as needed.

• Analyze assessment documents – The service has provided a survey to its users for the past couple of years. Continued analysis of these surveys will provide further direction for the future of the service. Include positive feedback from the assessment documents in our advertising materials and on our Web site.

**Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products):

• Recruit more public librarians for both the e-mail and conference services

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget)	a. 100
Amount which you have spent so far this year	b. 0
Your estimated additional expenses this year	c. 90
Total of amount spent and additional "estimated" expenses for this year (b+c)	d.90
Difference between budgeted amount and total expenses from above (a-d)	e. 10

f. Vendor support planned or anticipated for the year (either money or in-kind gifts), list here:

g. Vendor support requested: (From the above list, what, if any, has been requested from the Exhibitor Contact and Relations Committee?)

h. Vendor support received: (From the above list, what if any, has been received?)

Specific Needs/Support (non-financial): (For the categories below, please include approximate date service needed)

a. Web Support (help with webpage creation, web form creation, web database, web database, scripting, etc):

This will be part of a committee member's responsibilities

b. On-site conference volunteers: (include estimated numbers needed and brief job description)

The resume review committee supports a booth in the career placement center at both Midwinter and Annual ALA conferences. We use volunteers to serve as greeters at the booth. The booth is generally open 24 hours during the course of the conference. Two volunteers for each hour would be 48 volunteers for each conference. We will begin requesting volunteers through NMRT-L within a couple of weeks of the conference dates.

c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.):

The success of the resume review service is dependent on its continued publicity and high profile. As mentioned above one of the objectives of the committee in the coming year is to increase our publicity. This will include continued support through advertisements on a number of listservs including NMRT-L, a link from the NMRT website, and press releases to Footnotes, and to other ALA publications such as Cognotes, American Libraries, CRL News etc.

**Report submitted by: Johnna Childs and Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen

**Email address: johnnachi@att.net, dlowewin@mailer.fsu.edu