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Seattle, Washington, United States

Tacoma, Washington

In this role, I managed the Archives & Special Collections (A&SC) programs; promoted and provided research assistance; provided information literacy instruction using primary sources; supervised arrangement and description work; and coordinated outreach efforts such as exhibits, presentations, and tours.

Greater Boston Area

For this position I worked within the Acquisitions Team to facilitate the donation, organization, and description of archival materials. Some of my responsibilities included: accessioning new materials for Boston University’s History of Nursing Archives; contacting donors and their family members to facilitate the donation process of archival materials; arranging, describing, and shelving archival collections; supervising student employees and interns in processing collections; assisting researchers who visit the research room; providing reference service via email to researchers and donors who are unable to visit the archives; planning, executing, and presenting at student discovery seminars; and assisting exhibitions and administrative staff at major HGARC events.

Greater Boston Area

For this position I create preliminary listings and finding aids for collections, including HGARC’s Elie Wiesel collection. I've used Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, and FlippingBook software to prepare digital images for online exhibits, including the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Digital Archive. I've used Archive Manager, HGARC's content management system, to create metatdata for digital materials and prepare online exhibits. Additionally, I worked on a student discovery seminar focused on our comics and cartoon-related materials; for this project I researched our relevant collections, pulled archival materials, presented at the seminar, and created a handout encouraging further research

Tacoma, Washington

For this position I researched records management and data cleanup practices and used Northern Storage software to identify unnecessary and outdated files on the shared drive. Overall, I organized over 600,000 files that were generated by Northern Storage in departmental Excel reports. I presented these Excel reports to Department Record Coordinators (DRCs) and demonstrated how to use them when determining what files would be retained or deleted. Lastly, I kept record of all the work done by the DRCs in my master Excel report and drafted suggested policies and procedures for future shared drive use.

While at Densho I scanned archival materials and used Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat to prep images for Densho’s digital archive, created metadata for archival materials and created htm transcripts, and incorporated Densho’s thesaurus terms into their encyclopedia. This was an amazing internship in which I learned how a community archive functions and learned a great deal about Japanese American history in the Pacific Northwest and the United States as a whole.

Tacoma, Washington

This was an internship in which I organized, renamed, and input metadata for over 16,000 digital photos in the Communications department’s digital photo collection. For this position I researched cataloguing software and digital photo organizational practices, interviewed Port employees, created a new organizational structure for the digital photo drive, created policies and procedures for digital photo storage, and led a workshop training staff members to navigate the new organizational system.

For this position I performed tasks such as scanning materials for the digital collection, respond to research questions from members of the campus or local community, make inventories of historical materials, create spreadsheets, accession new items, and maintain the archives workspace. I also performed extra projects for the library director such as creating library displays, finding historical images for campus publicity projects, and creating a promotional video featuring the University Archives.

Master'S Degree, Library And Information Science, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Panopticon Arts and Cultural Heritage group, SCoSAA (Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English With An Emphasis In Writing, Rhetoric, And Culture

Activities and Societies: Gamma Phi Beta sorority, Repertory Dance Group, Mortarboard Honor Society, Interfaith Council, United Methodist.

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