Jerrod’s CV
Institution: OCLC
Your Job Title: Solution Strategist
Library type: Library Vendor
Officer Seats: Treasurer
Board Seat Category: General
Please list all BCALA involvement: Panelist on panel discussing the success a Library Minor for Undergraduates
Booth Volunteers for multiple ALA and Mid-Winter BCALA Booths
Professional Activities & Extra-Curricular: (Volunteer, offices held, honors/awards, publications, etc.): BCALA Member, ALA Member
Accomplishments/Awards & Honors:
• American Library Association Spectrum Scholar Recipient 2014-15
• Association of Research Libraries Career Enhancement Program Fellow (CEP) 2013-14
• Illinois Business consulting (IBC) Consultant Spring 2013
• Mix It Up Fellowship Recipient (University of Illinois) 2013- 2015
What skills/experiences make you a good candidate to be an officer of BCALA?: Continuous Middle school and High school Volunteering , GE Leadership Program Graduate , Big Brother Big Sister Participant
Name 3 specific things you see that need to be done to strengthen the Black Caucus?: Outreach to New librarians
Partnership with Library Schools/iSchools
More conversations around innovation that benefits minorities