Heather L. Lehman

2009 Harney Street Vancouver, WA 98660
lehman.heather at gmail.com

Education

Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Washington, 2004. B.A. Anthropology, Washington State University, 2002.

My current areas of focus are: resources for interdisciplinary collaboration, technologies for small groups, and community development.

Selected Work Experience

Corporate Ethics International 10/2007 -- present

• Digital Archivist and community manager. I source and populate a news aggregator specific to the mission of the Business Ethics Network and its member organizations for the public portion of the site, and I help develop, add, and maintain resources for campaigners for the meber only area. I help maintain the member database and work with member organizations to collect corporate campaigner materials. I also work to raise the visibility of Corporate Ethics International and its projects across the Internet (Search Engine Optimization).
• Technology manager for Corporate Campaign University [CCU] . This is a new, member only, project for the Business Ethics Network. We are deploying a eLearning Management System [LMS] for our members. I am responsible for testing and deploying the final LMS, and will be aiding the learning team in populating the system with course materials.

little luna market 06/2010 -- present

• co-owner of Vancouver's only local-first focus market. this endeavor is an affair of the heart and is bent on fulfilling the needs of our underserved area.
• development of a producer's network that highlights the amazing talent of our region, and gives them a market for their wares too!
• addresses the need to educate AND provide solid access to good, ethical food to all people of our area and not just those with higher incomes.
• good.local.mobile.

Washington State University Vancouver 05/2001 — 12/2009

• Technical worker for the College of Liberal Arts. Web maintenance, web project coordination, and copy writing. Faculty page development, faculty project galleries, and student aids.
• Research assistant. Developing web-portal on ethnobotanical research at the site of Harappa, web-based image archive of seed data for South East Asia . Projects require metadata development, object imaging, database development, and web deployment.
• Intern on IMLS grant funded project on Non-Native ethnic history of the Columbia River Basin. (http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/crbeha)

Selected Volunteer Experience

• The Vancouver Food Cooperative, Vancouver , WA (http://www.vancouverfood.coop/). Served as interim board member, member of technical committee, founding volunteer. Currently active as part of outreach and web team. I am an avid cooperative, local farm and agriculture, and sustainable food supply supporter.
• WiserEarth (WE) Editor (http://www.wiserearth.org/). learning the new taxonomy based on the Earth Charter Principles, maintain and update the directory, aid new users with WE interface.
• Webmaster for Hunters Greens

Relevant Skillset

Project Coordination

Web development with creative and technical copy.

Research and Reporting: Searches, reporting, annotated bibliographies relevant to numerous fields of study, interdisciplinary fields, and business interests.

Tutoring: I have tutored students of all ages with reading, using current technologies, and specific subject materials. Advocate of Big6 skills for K through tertiary education.

Publications

Lehman, Heather & Webster, Janet G. 2004. Tsunami Digital Library Needs Assessment: Final Report to Oregon State University Libraries and the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science & Engineering. OSU EECS Technical Report 04-40-04. 24 pp. Available at: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/staff/websterj/webcv.htm

Lehman, Heather & Webster Janet. 2005. Describing Grey Literature Again: a survey of collection policies. In: GL6 Conference Proceedings. TextRelease, 2005, 7 p. Abstract available at: http://www.greynet.org/images/GL6,_Page_136.pdf

Pennington-Lehman, Heather & Weber, Steven. 2004. Paleoethnobotany: Modern Research Connecting Ancient Plants and Ancient Peoples. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences v23 – 1. 7p