Anna Samuels Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Maintain Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive: provide reference assistance to staff, PHLF members, and visitors, catalog donated items, and manage archival interns
• Review, organize, and process files relating to PHLF’s administrative and project history
• In winter 2020, began implementing Historical Archival & Records Care Grant awarded by Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission to rehouse and repair all of PHLF’s paper-based records
• In fall 2020, wrote and recorded two oral history lessons in conjunction with PHLF’s Education Department for use in Allegheny Intermediate Unit continuing education course

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Assisted patrons with job-related queries in Job, Career, and Education Center
• Addressed technology issues regarding public computers and personal devices
• Managed phone calls and patron interactions in a busy, urban library environment
• Assisted patrons in digitization of photographs, slides, negatives, documents, VHS tapes, and cassettes during weekly Lab Supervisor shift in CLP's REcollection Studio
• Edited photographs from Pittsburgh Photographic Library using Adobe Photoshop

Pittsburgh, PA

• Processed incoming library materials, following procedure for problem items such as snags, damaged items, and items with incorrect location codes
• Retrieved requested items in closed stacks for both Reference and Music Departments
• Completed online library training courses and attended staff training opportunities

Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, United States

• Processed and prepared incoming shipments of books, newspapers, and manuscripts for BookKeeper mass deacidification treatment
• Identified and marked damaged items; hand-sprayed fragile materials

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Conducted research using archival materials for monthly internal newsletter articles
• Processed and described archival materials and updated records in archival records management system Past Perfect
• Acted as lead consultant on corporate oral history project recording interviews with long-tenured Dollar Bank employees
• Transcribed and cataloged oral history interviews

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Managed Duquesne History Department's social media presence by posting information about student accomplishments, faculty updates, local history, and upcoming events
• Staffed History Department office during weekday hours
• Fielded phone calls and emails from university staff, prospective students, and community members
• Prepared course materials for professors and current students

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Collaborated with South Side Community Council and Carnegie Library’s South Side branch in collecting narratives related to the history of the South Side and architecture of Carson Street
• Interviewed and recorded volunteer narrators on two separate collection dates
• Processed each interview using a combination of keyword cataloging and timestamping
• Edited audio interviews using Audacity software into 3-5 minute narrative clips
• Assisted in planning and production of live storytelling event held at a local theater

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Edited archived audio interviews of Pittsburgh-area veterans for sound quality and story continuity using Audacity software
• Composed brief biographies to be displayed alongside interview video footage and audio clips on Veteran Voices website
• Conducted and edited a lengthy interview with a local veteran and disability rights activist

• Reshelved incoming books and audio visual materials
• Checked items out to library patrons using Symphony circulation software
• Processed materials on loan from other Timberland Library branches
• Assisted patrons in locating items and navigating online catalog

Washington State Library, Tumwater, WA

• Transcribed previously recorded interviews of Washington residents involved with local and national government for Legacy Washington Oral History Project
• Conducted oral history interviews with two centenarians after completing extensive background research on both narrators
• Composed biographical sketches of both narrators for Legacy Washington website

• Composed a variety of articles for both Seattle magazine and Seattle Bride magazine
• Conducted interviews with local vendors and Seattle citizens
• Provided editors with pitch material for upcoming issues at weekly meetings

• Composed articles for the monthly publication including events listings, interviews, and restaurant reviews
• Participated in weekly pitch meetings by providing editors with story ideas, upcoming Seattle-area event information, and local news
• Maintained the magazine’s online calendar by updating weekly theater, music, dance, and literature events
• Fact-checked a variety of articles

Seattle, WA

• Spearheaded a community involvement email campaign to establish partnership with other local nonprofit organizations
• Assisted Seattle poet Rachel Kessler during weekly lessons with a kindergarten and first grade class at Room Nine Community School in Shoreline as a part of the organization’s Writers in the Schools programs
• Contributed to the Writers in the Schools blog
• Researched authors and poets selected for upcoming Seattle Arts and Lectures performances and drafted short descriptions for the season program

• Staffed small Zine library housed in Seattle's Richard Hugo House writing center
• Reshelved materials
• Assisted patrons in locating Zines

Master Of Arts - Ma, Public/Applied History

Bachelors, English Literature

Activities and Societies: Adelphians Concert Choir, Women's Choir, Student Editor for Crosscurrents (campus literary publication), KUPS.