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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

College Park, Maryland, United States

Helping to unify processes for working with legacy media such as floppy disks and tape drives. Working on projects such as the Digital Preservation Framework and the ISO 16363 Digital Preservation Program Scorecard. Connecting with the global digital preservation community.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Led the Digitization Team, creating a quarterly roadmap for print and audiovisual digitization workflows. After deep research and interviews, wrote a detailed report on the history of audiovisual digitization at NLM and provided recommendations for how to manage the program in the future. Led book scanner maintenance and calibration efforts that brought all five machines up to FADGI 3-star compliance and established GoldenThread NXT reporting procedures for verifying performance. Provided oversight for audiovisual reformatting efforts, assisting with a contract for digitizing nearly 1000 items in seven formats.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Subject matter expert and project leader for digital conversion projects. Digitized books, newspapers, and microfilm that are preservation risks and made them available online. Specialized in forensic recovery of data from external media such as hard drives, floppy disks, optical disks and more.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Preserving born-digital archives from removable media such as optical disks, floppy disks, and hard drives. Expanding services to encompass the entire Library and hundreds of thousands of media items. Assisting on projects to digitize brittle books, newspapers, and microfilm. With contracts and in-house work, we add more than one million digital images to the collections each year.Authored the chapter "Mobile Device Data Preservation for Cultural Heritage Institutions" for the book Myntti, Jeremy, and Jessalyn Zoom. Digital Preservation in Libraries: Preparing for a Sustainable Future. 2019. Created and coordinated a professional support group for reformatting digital storage media, handling born-digital content, and various digital preservation issues; the group consisted of members from over 6 Washington, D.C.-area institutions, mostly federal agencies.

Washington, D.C.

Selected Accomplishments: Creation of a database for box-level inventory of entire archives. Co-created a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for disposition of deck logs. Instrumental in assisting with dramatic reduction of FOIA office's case backlog.Processed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Cared for the records of the United States Navy. Managed accession, inventory, and disposition of deck logs, a collection of 30 years of minute-by-minute ship records.

University Of Maryland, College Park

Conducted a full survey of collections to assess processing and description needs.Successfully led a multi-department initiative to make a musical scores database with 30,000 entries available online.Wrote four new online subject guides in LibGuides. Updated and managed four more.Enhanced the database for serials intake, adding a table for description of individual issues and enabling a complete inventory of all archived and bound serials. Also updated, consolidated, or enhanced over twenty other databases.Created and/or validated over 100 new online finding aids.Digitized over 150 objects consisting of hundreds of images, uploaded them to the digital repository and written appropriate metadata.Trained and managed up to six student workers at a time and their processing projects.Processed hundreds of linear feet of archival collections.

University Of Maryland, College Park

I processed the Alice and Arthur Nagle Collection of two-piano and four-hand piano pieces.

University Of Maryland, College Park

Arranged, described and performed preservation maintenance for the Rose Marie Grentzer Papers and the Records of the Madrigal Singers.Enhanced the database for serials intake, adding a table for description of individual issues and enabling a complete inventory of all archived and bound serials.

University Of Maryland, College Park

Developed online orientation module for student assistants, using Adobe CaptivatePlanned and coordinated 15 compliance training and continuing education workshops for library staff

Created and updated hundreds of illustrations for books, training courses, posters, and online learning modules.Helped develop infrastructure and prototypes for new initiatives in online distribution, including e-books and online learning modules.Designed covers for two of the most popular books in the catalog.

Austin, Tx

Austin, Tx

Master Of Library Science, Archives, Records And Information Management

Activities and Societies: Student Archivists at Maryland

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Radio-Television-Film

Activities and Societies: Texas Student Television

Bachelor Of Journalism

Activities and Societies: Cactus Yearbook, Society for News Design, University Residence Hall Association, Resident Assistant