Eugene Bruce

About Eugene Bruce

Librarian/Information Professional (40 years of experience) Professional, well-organized, well-prepared, attention to detail, work well under pressure, meet deadlines. Energetic, needing little day-to-day supervision to perform job functions.\"It is not only necessary to have social skills, but also to improve the sensitivity and understanding for other\'s values, views, ways of living and thinking, as well as being self-conscious in transferring one\'s own values and views in a clear, but appropriate way\"- Center of Inter-cultural Competence

Experience

1. Certified Library Professional

   Koniag Government Services

   Jan 2020 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Analyze perfected FOIA requests and develop comprehensive search strategies to meet the standards of a reasonable and adequate search. Strategies identify the major concepts in each request, along with appropriate related terms. Related terms account for Department-specific terminology that matches the intent of the requestor as well as differences in language used in varying modes of communication, encompassing formal language used in official correspondence as well as informal terms used in emails and other informal communication channels. • Communicate detailed search strategies to case processors, case managers so that they can be shared with Bureaus, offices, and posts tasked for each request to ensure that search strategies are consistent in terms of quality and thoroughness. • Identify all relevant repositories of State Department records that may contain relevant documents. • Deploy advanced knowledge of Boolean operators and online search skills to conduct thorough searches in all relevant repositories identified as responsive for each request. • Review search results and eliminate all documents that are irrelevant or otherwise non-responsive to the original request.

Education

• Univ. of D.C.

  A. A., Library Science

  1980