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CHRISTOPHER D. COURINGTON
6890 Loron Avenue Cell: 773-391-8151
Chicago IL 60646 ccourington@gmail.com
EDITING AND PROOFREADING BACKGROUND
 Successfully worked with non-native and native English speaking students to improve
grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and content organization across a variety of stylistic
schema, including APA, MLA, and Chicago Style
 Enabled students to improve test scores and gain admission to their chosen colleges through
helping them master grammar, punctuation, word choice, style, and organization in both the
essay section of the SAT, and in college application essays
 Helped develop the style guide used at Dearborn Financial, which then was used to create
stylistic consistency among new publications and old titles which were then re-edited according
to the new guide. Helped apply the same consistency and clarity to almost 30,000 test bank
questions
LIBRARIANSHIP AREAS OF CONCENTRATION
 Built static repository using OAI/PMH, with XML
 Focus on techniques of reference librarianship, including effective questions for reference
interviews
 Thesaurus, topic map, and index construction—used Multi-Tes thesaurus construction program
for several hundred term database of terms; used Ontopia software to construct topic map of
philosophy and art history; manually constructed index of vitamin booklet
 Expertise with a wide variety of both subscription and free databases for reference purposes:
biographical, statistical, geographical, and directories, including Westlaw, PubMed, and Lexis-
Nexis.
 Experience with OCLC, D-Space, and variety of digital libraries and repositories
 Command of basic XML for metadata maintenance and record creation; includes work with
Oxygen XML editor and familiarity with CSS/style sheets
 Experience with a variety of metadata standards, including MARC, Dublin Core, METS, and
MODS; also familiar with LCSH—can convert metadata records of one metadata scheme into
another scheme
 MS Office Suite; Open Office—have used both software packages extensively
EDUCATION
 MSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign IL 2007
 M.A., Sociology, Roosevelt University, Chicago IL 2005
 B.A., Creative Writing, Columbia College, Chicago IL 1993
PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS
 WESTFIELD ATHANEUM April, 2008
Reference Librarian
 GREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE 2008
Administrative Assistant
 Survey Construction
 Correspondence
 Data Analysis
 UMass-AMHERST 2006-2007
 Data Entry and Resolution
 Resolveddata discrepancies
 Facilitated incoming application process
 HAROLD WASHINGTON COLLEGE 2005
Instructor, Sociology 101
 Improved writing and research skills
 Improved test scores
 DEARBORN FINANCIAL 2004
Editor/Proofreader, financial and insurance testing materials
 Decreasedturn-around time for drafts of exams
 Edited and proofread books, exams, courses, and marketing materials
 DISCOVERY INTERNATIONAL 2003 - 2004
Medical researcher
 Summarized AIDS and cancer medical research using Pub Med and other databases
 Built database of physician information marketed to pharmaceutical companies
 Reduced by 50% the time required to build and summarize research and database
 VANGUARD EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANTS 2002-2005
College admissions consultant
 Increased student test scores
 Assisted college-bound students with essay and admissions preparation
 ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY 1994 - 1995
Graduate Assistant
 Assisted professor with research on urban theory
 Published award-winning article for leading sociology journal/ magazine PoMo.
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
 Forbes Library, Northampton MA 2008
Created Health Needs survey
 Soldier On Veterans Shelter, Leeds MA 2008-2011
 Literacy Volunteers of Chicago 1990-1993
HONORS
 Received Excellence in Research award from Roosevelt University for the quality of Master’s
thesis concerning contemporary political theory, politics, and psychology, 2005
 Published award-winning article in PoMo, a national journal of contemporary sociology, 1995

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  • 1. CHRISTOPHER D. COURINGTON 6890 Loron Avenue Cell: 773-391-8151 Chicago IL 60646 ccourington@gmail.com EDITING AND PROOFREADING BACKGROUND  Successfully worked with non-native and native English speaking students to improve grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and content organization across a variety of stylistic schema, including APA, MLA, and Chicago Style  Enabled students to improve test scores and gain admission to their chosen colleges through helping them master grammar, punctuation, word choice, style, and organization in both the essay section of the SAT, and in college application essays  Helped develop the style guide used at Dearborn Financial, which then was used to create stylistic consistency among new publications and old titles which were then re-edited according to the new guide. Helped apply the same consistency and clarity to almost 30,000 test bank questions LIBRARIANSHIP AREAS OF CONCENTRATION  Built static repository using OAI/PMH, with XML  Focus on techniques of reference librarianship, including effective questions for reference interviews  Thesaurus, topic map, and index construction—used Multi-Tes thesaurus construction program for several hundred term database of terms; used Ontopia software to construct topic map of philosophy and art history; manually constructed index of vitamin booklet  Expertise with a wide variety of both subscription and free databases for reference purposes: biographical, statistical, geographical, and directories, including Westlaw, PubMed, and Lexis- Nexis.  Experience with OCLC, D-Space, and variety of digital libraries and repositories  Command of basic XML for metadata maintenance and record creation; includes work with Oxygen XML editor and familiarity with CSS/style sheets  Experience with a variety of metadata standards, including MARC, Dublin Core, METS, and MODS; also familiar with LCSH—can convert metadata records of one metadata scheme into another scheme  MS Office Suite; Open Office—have used both software packages extensively EDUCATION  MSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign IL 2007  M.A., Sociology, Roosevelt University, Chicago IL 2005  B.A., Creative Writing, Columbia College, Chicago IL 1993 PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS  WESTFIELD ATHANEUM April, 2008 Reference Librarian  GREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE 2008 Administrative Assistant  Survey Construction
  • 2.  Correspondence  Data Analysis  UMass-AMHERST 2006-2007  Data Entry and Resolution  Resolveddata discrepancies  Facilitated incoming application process  HAROLD WASHINGTON COLLEGE 2005 Instructor, Sociology 101  Improved writing and research skills  Improved test scores  DEARBORN FINANCIAL 2004 Editor/Proofreader, financial and insurance testing materials  Decreasedturn-around time for drafts of exams  Edited and proofread books, exams, courses, and marketing materials  DISCOVERY INTERNATIONAL 2003 - 2004 Medical researcher  Summarized AIDS and cancer medical research using Pub Med and other databases  Built database of physician information marketed to pharmaceutical companies  Reduced by 50% the time required to build and summarize research and database  VANGUARD EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANTS 2002-2005 College admissions consultant  Increased student test scores  Assisted college-bound students with essay and admissions preparation  ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY 1994 - 1995 Graduate Assistant  Assisted professor with research on urban theory  Published award-winning article for leading sociology journal/ magazine PoMo. VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE  Forbes Library, Northampton MA 2008 Created Health Needs survey  Soldier On Veterans Shelter, Leeds MA 2008-2011  Literacy Volunteers of Chicago 1990-1993 HONORS  Received Excellence in Research award from Roosevelt University for the quality of Master’s thesis concerning contemporary political theory, politics, and psychology, 2005  Published award-winning article in PoMo, a national journal of contemporary sociology, 1995