1. Klaudia Wolf
10 Regent Drive
Savannah, GA 31406 - USA
Phone (912) 257-8497
wolfinsavannah@gmail.com
PROFILE
Ambitious, accurate, well organized, and highly motivated individual with more than twenty
years of experience in administrative support and information and office management, inventory
management, and cataloging and archiving. Skilled in meeting customers' special requests, and
scheduling and coordination, providing general and specific knowledge about information
resources and research strategies, information evaluation, creating and maintaining databases,
and in problem solving.
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
• 25 years of combined formal experience in office administration, inventory management,
and material management, primarily in written, printed and recorded media
• Specialize in researching, documenting, cataloging and maintaining computer-based
inventories, information procurement and analysis, and in customer support for general
and special requests
• Vast knowledge in information resources and effective search strategies
• Strong commitment to working closely with individuals for the advancement of learning,
knowledge and intellectual development
• Extensive history of working with individuals from diverse social, economic, ethnic,
academic and cultural backgrounds
• Effective collaborator and communicator in a team environment and across diverse
departments
• Demonstrated history of excellent organizational skills
• Extensive experience in managing, organizing, and operating office activities
• Experience, training and managing volunteers and staff
WORK EXPERIENCE
Georgia Music Warehouse 2013 February – 2014 September
Savannah, GA, USA
• Maintain office files, including customer and contractor invoices, customer orders,
purchase information, music lessons, and musical instrument rental management
• Create, develop, and consistently improve a computer-based inventory management
system
• Respond to general sales inquiries and to customer special requests
• Provide committed customer service through the coordination, communication, and
scheduling of instrument repairs and customer music lessons
• Coordinate and maintain the operating schedule of contracted employees
• Prepare customer and contractor invoices
• Educate staff regarding technical equipment and store products
2. • Train, manage and supervise staff regarding computer operating systems and inventory
programs
• Resolve customer concerns and respond to customer requests
• Implement inventory control and inventory tracking processes
• Responsible for supplier contact, purchasing, pricing, accounts payable, accounts
receivable, and sales
Archiepiscopal Academic Library 1989 December – 2013 January
Paderborn, Germany
• Cataloged and entered into inventory all media, especially written, printed and recorded
media
• Maintained all computer-based inventories
• Provided customer service for general inquires and for specialized scientific research
• Assisted students and customers with the use of computers for the purpose of research
and provided one-on-one and group instruction on library equipment, and research
sources
• Procured and analyzed information regarding customer requests and materials in
inventory
• Granted special responsibility of maintaining historical documents and books,
predominantly of the 15th to 18th centuries
• Inventory handling, inventory, and cataloging of rare and valuable books
• Documented inventory tracking process
• Experienced in maintaining ledgers and balancing budgets
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dec. 2014
City of Savannah, Research Library & Municipal Archives
Over 20 hours of volunteer service assisting with the archiving and filing of numerous municipal
and city records.
1987-1988
Short-term positions to enhance knowledge about various library systems and procedures:
• Public Library, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Haus des Deutschen Ostens, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Lippe State Library, Detmold, Germany
EDUCATION
1986-1989
University of Applied Sciences for Library and Documentation Sciences, Cologne, Germany
Degree: Diplom-Bibliothekarin (Graduated Librarian, degree in the United States between
Master and Bachelor for Library and Information Science)
1977-1986
Gymnasium Leopoldinum (Academic high school)
Detmold, Germany
Degree: Abitur (High school diploma)
3. ADDITIONAL SKILLS
• Microsoft Office and OpenOffice, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• AIMSI (inventory management system)
• USAePay (online payment gateway)
• BIS C-2000 (library cataloging system)
• KVK Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (worldwide virtual catalog for libraries)
• IMSLP Petrucci Music Library (international source for music records and sheet music)
• CPDL (international database of choral sheet music)
• Skilled in book history and historic book management and handling
• Experienced in reading and in researching historically significant writings, mainly
focused on the 15th to 18th centuries
LANGUAGES
• German: native language
• English: fluent
• Latin: 12 semesters, Graduation: Grosses Latinum (A-Level)
• Greek: 6 semesters, Graduation: Graecum
• Italian, French, Russian basics
CERTIFICATES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Certificate of Recognition received from Archiepiscopal Academic Library, Paderborn, Germany
April-May 2012 (5 weeks)
Dormition Abbey, Mt. Zion, Jerusalem, Israel
Responsible for recording, organizing, and cataloging of 250 rare books and manuscripts that
were discovered at the abbey. Cataloged these historical assets into the library system BIS C-
2000, so that the entire collection is now available for semi-private view in an historic cloister,
and is researchable for the public via an online database.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Member and soloist of several semi-professional choirs, including concerts, international concert
tours, and recordings for CDs and television. Church music instructor for a children and youth
choir, and for singing classes since 1991.
2013 – Present
Savannah Philharmonic Chorus
Singer (Soprano)
2013 – Present
St. John the Baptist Cathedral Choir Savannah
Singer (Soprano)
4. Archdiocese of Paderborn
Archiepiscopal General Vicariate
Domplatz 3
33098 Paderborn
Paderborn, January 31, 2014
Certificate
Ms Klaudia Wolf, who was born on June 14, 1967, was employed at the Archdiocese of
Paderborn in the Archiepiscopal Academic Library in Paderborn, Germany, from December 1,
1989 through January 31, 2014.
The Archiepiscopal Academic Library Paderborn which houses approximately 340,000 volumes
is financed by the Archdiocese. It is the college library of the Divinity Faculty of Paderborn and
is responsible for the library duties for the Archdiocese. The collections are historically
significant and valuable, and have more than regional importance. The library is open to the
public and participates in both national and international inter-library loan.
The duties of Ms Wolf were primarily:
• Processing donated books and estates
◦ Receipt of donations or estates
◦ Examination and review the books
◦ Inventory the books, that are not in stock
◦ Cataloging these books in the database of the library system BIS C-2000
◦ Incorporate all books that were printed before 1990 into the old slip catalog using the
“Preussische Instruktionen“ [prussian instructions, an old library cataloging system]
◦ Special handling and archiving of books that were published before 1900 and
facsimile reproductions
◦ Delivering the books to the manager of the book stocks
• Cataloging work for the Reference Library of the Archiepiscopal Divine Faculty
◦ Entering the titles [with additional information] of books that were edited before 1990
into the collectively database of the Divine Faculty and the Archiepiscopal Academic
Library
◦ Maintenance of this catalog
◦ Inspecting the records
◦ Communicating with the employees of the Divine Faculty regarding the collections
and cataloging in the case of incomplete or inaccurate data supply
• Maintenance of duplicate books
◦ Maintaining and selling books, coming from donations and estates, which are not of
interest for the library
◦ Organization of the annual duplicate books sale
◦ Special treatment of particular duplicates regarding the history of the diocese
◦ Substitution of lost copies of the Archiepiscopal Academic Library with duplicate
books
5. • Cataloging the extensive sheet music collection from the 19th
and 20th
centuries from the
former “Catholic Public Library/Music Library“ in the database
• Supervising the cataloging work of the staff
• Substitution in the book lending and interlending
• Control of magazine location
The project that was initiated by her with the library of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem is to
be highlighted. During her stay in Jerusalem, Ms Wolf reviewed historical and valuable book
stocks of the Dormition monastery and entered the information in the library system BIS C-2000.
Ms Wolf showed high self-initiative, identified herself fully with her duties and the library itself,
whereby she consistently demonstrated her enthusiasm and sense of purpose. She is equipped
with exceptional, extensive professional knowledge, which Ms Wolf continously implemented
with huge success in her range of duties. Ms Wolf was highly capable, and was able to
immediately address difficult situations and quickly find the right solutions. It is also important
to accentuate her sagacity, which enabled her even in difficult cases to make autonomous
decision. In addition, the management of new challenges were consistently handled very well
and reliably.
Ms Wolf steadily showed great diligence and enthusiasm. She was extremely resilient, flexible
and imaginative. The skills that are especially required for cataloging are accuracy and precision.
Ms Wolf accomplished these requirements entirely and managed her duties always with great
independance and personal responsibility. She has shown her very good organizational qualities
in the optimization of the stacks. As a result of her reorganization of the collections, the library
gained additional space in the stacks. Her work results were, even when faced with challenges, at
all times of very good quality. Due to her outstanding project work in Jerusalem, a very good and
efficient partnership between the libraries was built, which exists today.
She has done her assigned duties at all times to the fullest satisfaction.
Her behavior to superiors, colleagues and external individuals was always excellent. She was
friendly and accomodating. Ms Wolf gets along well with others, is willing to cooperate, and
therefore worked continually well and successfully in the team.
On her own accord, Ms Wolf concluded her employment on January 31, 2014. We deeply regret
her decision, because we lost a valuable employee. We thank her for her exceptionally good
work and wish her, both professionally and personally, all the best, much success and God's
blessing.
The vicar general
p.p.
Thomas Schäfers