Alyssa P. Email & Phone Number

Salem, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

St Louis, Missouri, United States

*Hired as the Mercantile’s first Curator of Access, Discovery & Learning upon completion of the Aubash Collections Access Librarian fellowship, working as both reference librarian and rare book cataloger*Reference Services: facilitating in-person reference appointments and answering reference questions through email, by phone, or walk-in for patrons around the world; handling transactions for photo orders and copies; collecting reference data and creating statistical reports*Rare Book Cataloging: working as the Mercantile’s sole rare book and special collections cataloger; duties include original and copy cataloging, researching rare books and collection items to aid in description, organizing digital and physical catalog files, rehousing fragile books and special collections items, maintaining cataloging backlog space, recording statistics, and ordering supplies*Social Media Outreach: comanaging the Mercantile’s social media pages, including digitizing collection items, writing descriptions, and posting content regularly*Educational Programming: continuing the work begun as the Library’s fellow by presenting regularly to area K-12 students and teachers; working to introduce students to special collections libraries and archives and facilitating an inclusive and welcoming environment to the St. Louis community*Additional Experience: participated in the search committee for the Mercantile’s next fellow; assisted on the preparation and deinstallation of colleague’s Grolier Club exhibit in New York City; and assisting with Mercantile events including board meetings and fundraisers in whatever capacity needed

St Louis, Missouri, United States

*Hired as this position’s first fellow and shifted between remote and onsite work during the COVID-19 pandemic, the onset of which occurred three weeks after position start date*Reference Services: facilitated in-person reference appointments and answered reference questions through email, by phone, or walk-in for patrons around the world; handled transactions for photo orders and copies; collected reference data and created statistical reports*Digitization Efforts/Online Presence: uploaded hundreds of scrapbook images to the digital library; digitized collection items for the 175th anniversary exhibition; contributed social media posts; general website maintenance*Special Collections Processing: assisted in processing collections of varying size along with finding aids*Educational Programming: helped build the Library’s educational programming for K-12 students, which included curriculum development and lesson planning, creating videos, compiling resources for the website, contacting upwards of 40 area schools, and presenting regularly to area students and teachers*Additional Experience: assisted on the Mercantile’s special collections inventory project; regularly wrote newsletters for Library patrons; assisted in Library maintenance tasks such as mold abatement, reorganizing the supply room, and general upkeep of shared workspaces; trained to make phase boxes for fragile materials; helped install and deinstall exhibits; and assisted in both virtual and in-person events held by the Library in whatever capacity needed

Homestead, Fl, United States

National Council for Preservation Education internship. Project includes processing, arranging, and organizing the Everglades National Park fire division records. The collection consists of 100 linear feet of textual material, oversize documents, thermofax, maps, slides, photographs, negatives, newspaper clippings, overlays, microfilm, VHS, CD, DVD, and ephemera. Tasks include identifying items to be culled, reformatting and preserving items as needed, digitizing photographic slides, and creating a finding aid.

Employed as a long-term middle school social studies and language arts substitute teacher. Responsibilities include classroom management, lesson planning, grading, supervising duties, and consistent communication with parents and guardians

Boston, Massachusetts

*Updated inventory of the Library’s theology section in OPAC system, consisting of 254 spreadsheet pages and hundreds of uncatalogued materials. Included correcting cataloging errors and inconsistencies in call numbers and identifying missing items/items not previously listed in the inventory*Recorded preservation concerns like spine and binding problems, red rot, and mold; re-housed theology pamphlets*Identified materials published before 1800 to be evaluated for the Rare Book Room and researched the estimated value of rare items*Identified unique illustrations, etc. to be featured on the Library’s social media pages

Grafton, Massachusetts

Employed as an instructional assistant in a fourth grade classroom. Responsibilities included providing one-on-one assistance to students with diverse learning needs, supplying class coverage for teachers, and teaching and developing curriculum for summer school

Worcester, Massachusetts

Processed the Office of Communications Collection, which included creating a preliminary inventory, preparing a processing plan, re-housing materials, arranging and describing the collection, and producing a finding aid. The collection consisted of 12 boxes/300 folders of material

Harrisburg, South Dakota

Hired upon college graduation to teach 8th grade social studies. Responsibilities included classroom management, lesson planning, grading, collecting data on student behavior and academics, supervising duties, collaborating with colleagues, and regularly conferencing with parents; also coached track and field

Alexandria, South Dakota

Worked as the assistant to the network administrator during summers while going to school. Primarily performed maintenance on all district desktops and laptops; also digitized school records and covered for the school’s administrative assistant as needed

Master Of Library & Information Science - Mlis, Archives/Archival Administration, 3.95

Bachelor'S Degree, History Teacher Education, 3.75

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Theta, Student Ambassador, Intramural Sports