Allison Schein Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed a full-time and part-time staff team and up to six interns per semester. • Launched three digital asset management systems of time-based and flat archival items, enabling greater access to materials across the organization.• Set departmental digitization goals and collaborated with other departments relating to archival materials, creating greater intellectual control and access across departments where none existed.• Created training materials and coached internal stakeholders using digital asset management systems. • Collaborated with in-house counsel regarding external archival licensing and access to materials, consistently growing revenue each year by at least $50,000 in the first two years. • Consulted with internal stakeholders and developers to enhance the Open Editor, an open-source speech-to-text editor that improves workflow and access across all media-making departments.• Solicited collections from donors to enhance the history of WWCI.• Responsible for establishing a departmental budget of $400,000 and priorities.• Doubled the amount of Studs Terkel Radio Archive’s public programs within two years when work shifted to remote.• Managed undergraduate and graduate interns to expand archival access via traditional and new technologies using in-house-created best practices based on existing archival standards.• Developed outreach activities and community engagement projects utilizing the Studs Terkel Radio Archive with partners such as Free Spirit Media, Chicago Public Library's YOUmedia, and 826CHI and Illinois Humanities.

• Introduction to the Open Editor for Automatic Transcription of Audiovisual Materials, International Association for Sound and Audiovisual Archives, Annual Conference, September 2023• Digitization Tools On A Shoestring Budget, Chicago Area Archivists, June 22, 2018• Digitizing Audio Using Audacity, Claretian Archives Workshop, October 3, 2017• Workshop: Contemporary Material Practice in Archives: The Studs Terkel Radio Archive Collection, Radio Preservation Task Force Conference, February 26-27, 2016• Tell Us Your Story: The Doing and Keeping of Oral History, Dominican Sisters Annual Conference, June 30, 2012.

• Ask An Archivist, Radio Preservation Task Force Conference, 2023• Digging for Gold and Gems: Unique Potential of Music Archives European Broadcasting Union, 2022• Ambition, Advocacy, and the Future of Storytelling, Society of American Archivists, Annual Conference, 2020• Studs Terkel Radio Archive Access, Radio Archive Workshop, European Broadcasting Union, 2019• Redefining Audio Access Using Studs Terkel Radio Archive, The Radio Conference, Monash University, 2018• Using the Past to Inform Our Future, International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, 2017• You Have the Audio, Now What? Connecting the Community to the Archive, Society of American Archivists Annual Conference, 2017• Listening to History: Sound, Memory, and Preservation in the Digital Age, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2017.• Strategies for Expanding Collection Access at the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 2017.• The Studs Terkel Radio Archive: Take it easy, but take it...to new places, Broadcast Archives Section, International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Annual Conference, 2015.• Everyday Memories: A Survey of Multidisciplinary Oral History Collecting Strategies, Society of American Archivists Annual Conference, 2015.• Networking Your Way into the Profession: How to Secure Paid Work through Internships, Midwest Archives Conference, 2015.• Sharing Studs Terkel's Radio Archives with the World, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Annual Conference, 2014.• Making Radio with Studs & the Studs Terkel Radio Archive with WFMT, Let's Get Working, Chicago Celebrates Studs Terkel, 2014.• Creatively Funding the Creative Audio Archive, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, 2013.• Preserving Chicago’s Living History of Improvisational and Experimental Jazz, Association for• Recorded Sound Collections Annual Conference, 2013.

Chicago, Il

• Maintained servers and LTO storage and migration of digital assets for preservation and access, coordinating with IT to ensure internal stakeholders have greater access to materials. • Coordinated digitization of WFMT's Legacy Broadcast Archive of over 3,500 materials and ingestion of WFMT's born-digital programming into DAM.• Provided external and internal research services so that materials can be reused in current programming.• Established metadata priorities, standards, and policies to improve search results consistently.• Collaborated with developers to create open-source speech-to-text software, expanding internal and external access to holdings. • Standardized digitization workflows, created training manuals, and conducted in-house archival training.

Chicago, Il

• Maintained and provided access to over 3,000 programs on the Studs Terkel Radio Archive website, utilizing open-source and proprietary software.• Developed www.studsterkel.org as part of a collaborative team with Jell Creative, Hyperaud.io, and Starchive.• Built and maintained an existing database of over five thousand records, adding digitized files for public and research consumption. • Collaborated with community groups to activate the radio programs, allowing them to be consumed in new ways.• Arranged and processed two of the four collections following archival standards.• Coordinated the copying and reformatting of materials for preservation and access. • Participated in policy and procedure development related to accessioning, processing, cataloging, and preservation. • Created and input descriptive data following nationally accepted archival description standards into a database to output finding aids. • Supervised graduate and undergraduate interns.• Managed web content. • Performed outreach efforts to enhance archive awareness.

River Forest, Illinois, United States

Fieldwork class centered on providing graduate archival students with opportunities to work with current unprocessed collections typically within the non-profit sector. Students apply MP/LP to standard collections, create an EAD finding aid and work with new technologies to enhance digital content and collection awareness.

Experimental Sound Studio

Arranged and processed two of the four collections in accordance with archival standards; coordinates the copying or reformatting of materials for preservation and access; participate in policy and procedure development related to accessioning, processing, cataloging, and preservation; create and input descriptive data to a database that will output finding aids that follownationally accepted archival description standards; supervise the work of interns, both graduate and undergraduate; manage web content; performs outreach efforts throughout the city to enhance archive awareness; created and managed a fully funded Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to transfer one of the collections; solicit collections from donors

Created 1215 records in Archon describing photographs in the Vernon McKay papers collection, to enhance existing EAD finding aids; use various online translation tools to decipher metadata that is mostly in French; assign subject headings according the Library of Congress Subject Headings authorities; provide descriptive metadata when applicable; corrected various finding aids in Archon for University Archives.

Assist in processing the photography archive utilizing More Product, Less Processing; review subject files to identify, extract and inventory company-owned or published materials; perform preservation procedures, including re-housing materials; efficiently enter database collection information, including series, subject headings, publication dates, material format, photographer and cross-reference information; contribute cross-functionally to the development of archival policies and procedures.

Audio, Arts And Acoustics Department

Managed a staff of ten; create necessary documents to communicate and implement new policy for staff and students; created a new scheduling workflow for use of the audio facilities; schedule maintenance for control and production rooms as necessary; create and maintain an inventory of studio equipment and equipment available for student checkout; coordinate with faculty for class sessions; provide technical & troubleshooting assistance for department computers (PC and Mac platforms) via phone, email, and onsite inspections

Create & teach curriculum for a seven-week after school program that combines technology and storytelling for fifth graders; teach students’ basic Garageband skills and microphone theory so that they are able to create audio documentaries; create a teamwork environment to ensure all students are engaged.

Programming/Engineering; Engineer both music and voice-over sessions for national & international broadcasts; engineer location recordings in places such as the Cultural Center in Chicago and Ravinia Music Festival for future broadcasts; engineer live broadcasts; perform quality control functions for programs distributed to the Beethoven Satellite Network, and for mass duplication of programs (including Millennium of Music, Jazz at Lincoln Center) for national distribution; digitize vinyl tracks

Proficiently operated a 20-line switchboard; greeted tenants and clients in a professional, cordial manner; additional key responsibilities: processed all general mail (paper, voice, electronic); complaint resolution; rent and condo assessment collection; scheduled courier delivery and pickup; ordered office supplies

Music Dept., Borders Music & Books Management: open/close store responsibilities; staff oversight; customer relations and problem resolution; restocked cashier's drawers; daily cash reconciliation of a minimum of 10 drawers.Inventory: received inventory and performed quality control functions; product sale and promotional preparation; prepared product for line sales.Created back room inventory flow which resulted in increased productivity.

Master Of Library & Information Science (Mlis), Archives/Archival Administration

Activities and Societies: Society of American Archivists Student Chapter at Dominican University, Chicago Area Archivists

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Audio Arts And Acoustics