Amy Simon Email & Phone Number

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Reference and Research• Provide reference and research assistance to staff, volunteers, and the public.• Aid in the preparation of archives publications.• Assist researchers in the use of archival materials.• Fulfill research and genealogical requests.Preservation• Maintain and conserve existing records by removing harmful fasteners, encapsulation, isolation of fragile materials, and rehousing. Prepare documents and registers for conservation off-site.• Digitization of records according to archival standards. Arrangement and Description• Provide intellectual and physical access to collections and reference materials through arrangement and description. • Prepare inventories and indexes to facilitate access to records and collections.Records Management• Provide records management services to all departments, offices, parishes and schools. • Conduct records surveys and inventories. • Maintain and update the records management database including metadata entry according to descriptive standards. • Accession records for inactive storage and facilitate records retrieval.Education and Outreach• Supervise and educate interns from the local university with ongoing archives projects.• Staff special events.• Participate in continuing education in archives and records management.Editing and Publication• Aid in the preparation of archives publications.• Includes the formatting, editing, proofreading, and compilation of our print and electronic publications.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Reference and Research• Assist researchers in the use of archival material• Answer inquires from genealogists• light clerical workPreservation• Maintain and conserve existing records by removing harmful fasteners, encapsulation, isolation of fragile materials, and rehousing.• Prepare documents and registers for conservation off-site.• Digitization of records according to archival standards and migration of born digital records.Arrangement and Description• Provide intellectual and physical access to collections and reference materials through arrangement and description.• Prepare finding aids, shelf lists, and folder lists•Enter record information into the archives and records database including metadata entry according to descriptive standardsRecords Management• Provide records management services to all departments, offices, parishes and schools.• Conduct records surveys and inventories.• Maintain and update the records management database including metadata entry according to descriptive standards.• Accession records for inactive storage and facilitate records retrieval.Education and Public Outreach• Supervise and educate interns from the local university with ongoing archives projects.• Aid in the preparation of archives publications.• Develop display themes and plan and execute exhibits.• Staff special events.• Participate in continuing education in archives and records management.• Maintain Facebook page, and department website.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Digitizing Louisiana Newspaper Project• Evaluate primary source microfilm.• Assemble metadata for microfilm and digital aspects.• Assist with record keeping.• Perform quality control reviews on images and associated metadata prepared by vendors• Assist with project documentation (reports and statistics).• Maintain the Digitizing Louisiana Newspaper Project Website (HTML)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Provide register coverage and process all customer and associate transacations at the registers.• Perform all cash office functions and ensure that the front end is supplied with the necessary resources for register functions• Serve as primary customer service provider at the front end and liaison between customers and management• Ensure customers receive outstanding service by adhering to and enforcing customer service programs• Handle all situations that involve firearms passing through the front end and ensure compliance with firearms safety policy and procedure• Train new cashiers through daily operations and procedures

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Cash register ringing• Cash handling• Fulfill the company defined customer experience by being a friendly, available, customer focused, excited team member• Consistently promoting company programs including warranty sales, scorecard, private label credit card, etc.

• Assist researchers with obtaining genealogical and photograph requests.• Various processing jobs including creating finding aids, paper restoration, and other basic conservation needs.• Assist in the digitalization of various medias

• Obtained and organized manuscripts and other source documents for academic reviews.• Maintained database for an orthopaedic clinical research program.• Developed an ACCESS-based database for a specific research study.• Organized the archival system for forms for multiple clinical studies.• Process and catalog incoming grafts for a licensed bone bank

• Assisted with inventory organization of selected collections.• Data entry for newly established collections database.• Assisted with the processing procedures of some of the artifacts.

• Managed ticket booth sales for both general admission and will call.• Responsible for scoreboard during Men’s lacrosse games.• Enforced crowd safety guidelines at football and basketball games.

• At the Information Desk: orient visitors to the museum and provide directions to various services and activities; answer questions about the history of Ellis Island.• Assist office personnel with clerical work.• Assist with the break down and installation of temporary exhibits.• Assist the museum library with various projects pertaining to photograph collections.

• Taught goalie skills to young female goalies.• Responsible as a counselor in an overnight camp.

Mlis, Archives, 3.785

Activities and Societies: SAA-LSU Student Chapter (President 2012; Active Member 2011-2013), ALA-LSU Student Chapter (Active Member.

M.A., History And Culture, 3.576

Activities and Societies: Graduate Student Association (Convener 2010-2011)

B.A., Anthropology, Gender Studies, Sociology, 3.508

Activities and Societies: Division I Women's Lacrosse Team, Member Lambda Alpha (National Anthropology Honors Society)Deans List Spring.