Los Angeles City College Library

Katie Coon Hamilton joins LACC Library Staff --Los Angeles City College has added a new full-time tenure-track faculty librarian position. Katie spent the last two years doing reference and instruction work for LACC as a part-time volunteer and adjunct librarian, and is now joining LACC full-time.

Katie received her BA from Barnard College with a major in Latin American Studies and received her Master’s Degree in Library & Information Science from Long Island University in 2013.

During college she worked with the Upward Bound program and following college she worked as a legal advocate and paralegal. While attending her master’s program she interned at Hunter College Library and began working for the publisher Springer (now known as SpringerNature) starting off with the licensing department, and then moved to the marketing department as an Account Development Specialist doing post-sales work to increase usage and ROI for Academic & Governmental libraries in Latin America & the Caribbean. Her main activities included assisting with implementation, discovery & access of e-resources; platform trainings (in-person & virtual); usage analytics; and marketing campaigns.

Katie, originally from the East Coast, is thrilled to be living in Los Angeles and working with the community at LACC. When not at the library, Katie enjoys hiking, gardening, reading with her cat, and going to flea markets.