Albertina Rua Email & Phone Number

Cambridge Massachusetts

Perform the same tasks in my current position before a departmental re-organization. Monitor the processing of Latin American material.Use corporate credit card to purchase material for the library. Timely Catalog material upon receipt. Create and edit holdings and item records.Consistently show interest in learning new procedures, such as copy cataloging print material and DVDs. Asked by supervisors and catalogers to participate in test trainings of new departmental procedures for copy cataloging (DVD copy cataloging training and work-in-parts cataloging training).Demonstrate flexibility and interest in taking up new tasks. Attend monthly meetings of the iCommons Wiki Advisory Group. Re-applied for another year on this advisory group.Participated in a task force to develop procedures for creating and editing documentation. Attended 1-3 meetings per month for one year. Collaborated with chair and another co-worker to move an unmanageable set of technical services procedures for small libraries at Harvard University to a more manageable and easily accessible wiki.Trained a couple of co-workers on acquisitions work.Demonstrate flexibility and prioritization of work. Switch tasks weekly to meet departmental deadlines, payment requests from vendors, and end of fiscal year payment of material.

Carried out all the duties and responsibilities of a Library Assistant IV.Maintained and reported on the workflow of acquisitions material in the Spanish/Portuguese Division. Emailed my co-workers a weekly budget report that included the account balances of the funds used to pay library material.Trained and supervised 1-4 new staff and student workers in acquisitions work. Provided answers to problems that they encountered in their work.Coordinated acquisitions procedures and projects with the head of the division.Managed library database. Cleaned up duplicate records to present a more accurate description of material in the library holdings.

Searched, migrated and created bibliographic records for acquisition materials.Resolved problems with bibliographic, holdings, and item records. Conferred with co-workers within my unit about problems on these records.Created, claimed, and tracked order, receipt, and payment records. Became one of the point persons for vendors to inquire about orders and payment discrepancies.Resolved acquisitions problems and maintained correspondence with vendors for the Spanish/Portuguese Division almost every day. Developed rapport with 7-10 vendors in the United States and overseas.Discussed acquisition procedures and problems with bibliographers.

Internship for Archives Concentration 2004Accessioned and sorted through over one thousand photographs and over three dozen folders of research from Harvard University's Anthropology Department.Re-housed research material into off-site storage boxes. Placed some material in acid-free folders.Re-housed photographs in acid-free conditions. Placed photographs in acid-free boxes.Created finding aids to establish intellectual control over previously un-accessioned material.

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Mlis, Library And Information Science

Internships 438 Congregational Library, Boston MA 440 Peabody Museum Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

Bachelor Of Arts, History, Spanish

Activities and Societies: tutoring in Spanishsumma cum laude