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Name: 
Eric Chao
Job Title: 
Library Relations Manager
Main Phone: 
(310) 775-9807
Alternative Phone: 
(661) 877-0287
Joined SCELC: 
2012
SCELC Teams: 
  • CRM Task Force
  • SCELCapalooza Planning Committee
SCELC Committees: 
  • Program/Professional Development Committee (Liaison)
  • Marketing and Communications Committee (Ex-Officio)
Primary Responsibilities: 
  • Recruiting and onboarding new SCELC Members and Affiliates
  • Maintaining and building out new Member programming (e.g. SCELCapalooza, SCELC Channel One, and eResource Hackfest) and services (e.g. SCELC mailing lists, SCELC webinars, representing SCELC in the Professional Development Alliance, Callimachus)
  • Managing SCELC web operations, including: development and strategy, managing service providers and development contractors, and performing intermediate software development in-house
  • Interconsortial diplomacy on behalf of SCELC HQ
  • Sysadmin for SCELC staff
Favorite SCELC Achievements: 
  • 2012-16: Coming up through Business Services, wrangling database and (a few, tinier) eJournal renewals negotiations 
  • 2012- : Sneaking irrelevant non-information into listicles on scelc.org 
  • 2015: Drafted procedures for and implemented shared staff Google Drive document repository 
  • 2016-17: Anchored website upgrade and launched scelc.org v2.0 
  • 2016: Launched MARCOM and SCC 
  • 2017- : Leading planning committee for SCELC eResource Hackfests 
  • 2020: Launched SCELC Channel One alongside Executive Director, Rick Burke
  • 2021: Launched SCELC Salesforce CRM
Other Info: 

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