Lauren Todd

Lauren Todd

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Head of the Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Librarians
St. Louis, Missouri, United States

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  • Washington University in St Louis
    Head of the Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Librarians
    Washington University in St Louis
    Jul 2023 - Current (3 years 4 months)
    Managing four amazing STERG librarians in addition to my engineering subject librarian duties.
  • Crown Linen LLC
    Administrative Assistant
    Crown Linen LLC
    Feb 2015 - Current (11 years 9 months)
    working closely with General Manager and HR Generalist. Gathering information to produce daily, weekly and monthly reports. Assist with Logistic schedule, maintenance and record keeping. Assist with billing and accounts payable.
  • Washington University in St Louis
    Engineering Librarian
    Washington University in St Louis
    May 2012 - Current (14 years 6 months)
    Offers in-person and virtual reference services, library instruction, one-on-one consultations, course support, and outreach to 100+ tenured and tenure-track professors, 40 additional full-time faculty, 1421 undergraduate students, 979 masters’ students, and 551 doctoral students in the McKelvey School of Engineering.

    Provides various levels of course support to more than 20 classes including Engineering Technical Writing (14 classes per semester), Graduate Student Intensive Research Writing Fundamentals, Mechanical Engineering Design Capstone, En120: First Year Engineering Experience, McKelvey Scholars, and Introduction to Graduate Computer Science Engineering.

    Created the Citation Reports and h-index library service;
  • University of Missouri
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    University of Missouri
    Jan 2011 - May 2011 (5 months)
    -Assisted professor with classroom tasks related to her Reference Sources and Services class.
    -Helps with UMSL library projects, including identifying missing best-selling books, updating the library walking tour, and designing information brochures and promotional posters.
    -Staffed the reference desk 12 hours a week.
  • Washington University in St Louis
    Chemistry and Engineering Library Assistant
    Washington University in St Louis
    Sep 2010 - Apr 2012 (1 year 8 months)
    -Staffs front desk, assists students and faculty with reference and course reserves, checks out materials, supervises student workers, helps with freshman bibliographic instruction, and designs library marketing and information materials.
    -Maintains Chemistry Library web pages, LibGuides, Twitter and Facebook.
    -Organized and enacted periodical shift, which included discharging dead titles, updating signage and moving bound journals.
    -Introduced QR codes and mobile resources to chemistry students and will present findings to library staff.
  • St Louis Public Library
    Substitution Staff
    St Louis Public Library
    Sep 2009 - Nov 2010 (1 year 3 months)
    -Personally requested by head librarian of collection development for several long-term temporary stints of ordering and receiving audio-visual materials.
    -Substitute copy-cataloged non-fiction books for three weeks.
    -Performs standard circulation procedures and assist in reference work at various library branches.
  • Missouri Lawyers Media
    Graphic Designer
    Missouri Lawyers Media
    Oct 2007 - Jun 2009 (1 year 9 months)
  • Arizona Daily Star
    Designer
    Arizona Daily Star
    Oct 2005 - Oct 2007 (2 years 1 month)
  • The Sacramento Bee
    Graphic Artist Intern
    The Sacramento Bee
    Jun 2005 - Aug 2005 (3 months)
    Sacramento, Calif. (June 2005 to August 2005)
    Brainstormed and executed designs for the features department.
    Worked on various graphics and maps for both the news and features departments.
  • Cape Cod Times
    Design Intern
    Cape Cod Times
    Jun 2004 - Aug 2004 (3 months)
    Spent 11 weeks designing the news, sports, features and business sections including special pages on the Democratic National Convention and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
  • St Louis PostDispatch
    Intern
    St Louis PostDispatch
    Jan 2004 - Mar 2004 (3 months)
    Designed the daily metro section, features and special Saturday tabloid inside pages for six weeks
    Worked for two weeks on the copy desk and reported on the education beat for three weeks.
  • The Daily Northwestern
    All Things Design
    The Daily Northwestern
    Jan 2002 - Dec 2004 (3 years)
    Deputy Special Projects Editor, Fall 2004
    Design Editor, Summer 2002 and 2003, Fall 2003 and Spring 2004
    Assistant Design Editor, Spring 2003
    Designer (All Sections) Winter 2002-Winter 2002
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  • University of MissouriColumbia
    Masters, Library and Information Sciences
    University of MissouriColumbia
    Jan 2009 - Jan 2011 (2 years 1 month)
  • Northwestern University
    Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Journalism, Journalism
    Northwestern University
    Jan 2001 - Jan 2005 (4 years 1 month)
  • Commonwealth UniversityMansfield
    Fashion Merchandising
    Commonwealth UniversityMansfield
    Jan 1980 - Jan 1982 (2 years 1 month)
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      Timing is Everything: How (and When) to Communicate so People Will Listen
      St Louis Regional Library Network Tech Expo Mar
      If a mass email is sent during midterms, will anyone read it? Join Washington University Engineering Subject Librarian Lauren Todd to find out how to map out a marketing timeline for classes, events, and faculty communication. She will outline her plans of attack for how she markets herself to her semester Technical Writing Classes, promotes the yearly Engineering Week Paper Airplane Contest and En120 Scavenger Hunt, and navigates “Are they seeing this?” faculty emails quandary. This session will offer practical advice and solutions that attendees can implement at their libraries.
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      Engineering a New Home: Creating a Repository Collection for Faculty AND Building a Larger Digital Presence for the Scho
      Brick and Click Academic Library Conference Nov
      This talk is an expanded version of one given at the 2015 MOBIUS conference.
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      Engineering a New Home: Creating a Repository Collection for Faculty.
      MOBIUS Conference Jun
      In summer 2014, the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department contacted its subject librarian Lauren Todd about moving their technical reports from the department’s private SharePoint repository to Open Scholarship. Todd consulted with Emily Stenberg, the Digital Publishing and Digital Preservation librarian. Together with the CSE project manager and an involved professor, Todd and Stenberg formulated a plan to develop a collection in which faculty could submit their new reports and the subject librarian could administer the collection. They also established a local workflow making use of GoogleDrive (based on a workflow documented by Cleveland State University librarians) to batch upload earlier technical reports from the departmen
    This is a community-created genome.