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Textual processing.

• Assisting researchers in Special Media Research Rooms• Registering and renewing researchers• Answering or referring public inquiries by e-mail or phone• Monitoring researchers to ensure compliance with research room policies• Pulling and refiling records requests• Curating small exhibits• Writing and modifying department schedules• Acting Team Lead (120 day detail)• Other projects as needed

• Conducting outreach with the local dance community to borrow audiovisual recordings of presentations and performances• Digitizing in an OAIS compliant model with ffmpeg scripts, creating preservation, mezzanine, and access copies.• Editing video in an Mac environment using Final Cut Pro and other applications• Uploading and PBCore cataloging access copies onto the DHC's Secure Media Network. Creating and verifying cataloging and PREMIS metadata packets • Physically transferring electronic assets for LTO backup • Calibrating and maintaining equipment including waveform and vector oscilloscope, decks, and remotes• Returning borrowed analog materials along with digital copies and metadata• Representing the organization at conferences and workshops• Intermittent project manager for CollectiveAccess design and implementation• Organizing and managing events• Grant-writing assistance• Other projects as needed

• Managing and completing digital asset project management in support of archivist, registrar, and collections staff. Developed and implemented file-naming conventions, appraisal, Dublin Core cataloging schema with data dictionary, and other procedures for 31,000 images of artwork• Providing reference assistance to internal stakeholders• Researching metadata and software applications for optimum description and applicability to CollectiveAccess CMS. Oversaw and evaluated data and metadata importation• Processed and described Glenstone's first manuscript collection• Digitizing records for electronic access• Served as interim Assistant Archivist from August until November, 2014; this primarily involved committee and development work necessary for the implementation of CollectiveAccess

• Conducting archival research on behalf of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland project: The goal of said project is to extract the history of Maryland’s slaves, slave owners, and sympathetic whites under a theme inspired by the hidden history of the Underground Railroad• Researching using municipal, state, and national records contained or accessed within the Maryland State Archives. Additionally, secondary sources and the MSA’s non-government special collections are utilized as needed• Writing biographies (“case studies”) of persons of interest using aforementioned resources, download or scan these resources, embedding them into the case study’s footnotes using KompoZer HTML editor, and overseeing its publishing on the Legacy of Slavery’s Website• Data entry of black demographic information using Ancestry.com federal census records for publishing on Website• Seeking and exploring opportunities to collaborate, giving talks to heritage groups, teachers, and students• Other research as needed by department or the state archivist• Writing weekly blog posts for The HistoryMakers Fellowship, Mentoring, Training and Placement Institute• Continued cataloging HistoryMakers oral history videos and representing the organization at events and conferences This position was a nine month appointment associated with my yearlong fellowship with The HistoryMakers' Laura Bush 21st Century IMLS grant-funded project.

• Evaluating, processing, and cataloging descriptive, structural, and administrative metadata of oral history interviews for The HistoryMakers’ digital archive.• Cataloging interview evaluations using FileMakerPro• Editing video clips from oral history interviews for online use and access with Moyea FLV Editor• Creating PBCore metadata records for digital media assets• Processing paper-based business records according to a collaboratively developed schema for description of special collections material• Preparing EAD and EAC-CPF finding aids for video oral history interviews and special collections using FileMaker Pro and Oxygen XML Editor• Collaborating with other IMLS Fellows to develop strategies for more efficient processing of video oral history interviews and editing EAD templates.• Completing daily reports and weekly surveys on educational and professional work experience gained during the fellowship program• Writing weekly Blogger posts for The HistoryMakers Fellowship, Mentoring, Training and Placement Institute and for a parallel Wordpress accountThis position was a three month placement for a one year fellowship with The HistoryMakers' Laura Bush 21st Century IMLS grant-funded project.

Processing the records of the Fortune 100 insurance and financial services corporation, researching reference requests for a collection consisting of 750 linear feet, 20,000 visual materials, and 700 objects; also drafting ready reference and inreach content for the corporate Intranet.

Served as initial point of contact for a hybrid academic and public library. Work included: Book checkout, managing fines, bibliographic entry and troubleshooting, processing interlibrary loan, light reference, closed-stack item retrieval, and other projects as needed. Later duties included training and supervising new student staff.

Inventorying donated print materials in German and English, arranging and describing its first archival collections, drafting print and manuscript collection policy and management policies, preservation program adviser. Continuing academic project (DIRKS analysis) audited corporate records management and revised retention schedule.The institution received the 2014 Governor's Archives Award for Archival Achievement.

Duties included digitization of oral history collections and analog manuscript collection items, testing new media equipment or software and writing staff manuals, updating relevant database records, contacting narrators, internal collection management, and visual material scanning.

Coordination of three computer inputs--voice recognition software, keyboard, and touch screen--to provide closed captioning for live telephone conversations.