Laura Ashcraft
Retail Bookseller at Barnes & Nobles Bookstore
Carrboro, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Ashcraft is an information professional with 12 years of experience blending hands-on retail bookselling and digital librarianship with formal training in information science from UNC. She has designed and maintained databases for the eGranary digital library, curated digital collections, and applies user-centered design and organization informed by a humanities background to make resources discoverable and usable. Her work history includes long-standing frontline customer engagement at major bookstores and technical roles at WiderNet, giving her rare fluency across patron-facing service, content curation, and backend data work. A former USAF crew chief, she brings disciplined project execution, systems thinking, and an eye for operational detail to library and information systems projects.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage, Diploma, Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage at Body Therapy InstituteBachelor's Degree, Religious Studies, Cum Laude, Bachelor's Degree, Religious Studies, Cum Laude at California State University-Long BeachMaster’s Degree, Information Science, Master’s Degree, Information Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English
Github Skills (9)
unc10
java7
spring7
spring-boot7
nlp4
nltk4
science4
machine-learning3
natural-language-processing3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Lasher09/NLP
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:53 commits in 1 month
nlpsciencemachine-learningnltkscience-fiction
silshack/spring2014
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
UNC Chapel Hill INLS 560, Spring 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 1 month
spring-boothillspringuncjava
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