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Indianapolis, IN, US

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Responsible for collection development, reference, outreach, and instruction activities for the History of Medicine Special Collection related to the IU School of Medicine as well as regional, state, and local history and culture.Develop and manage digital collections by establishing the metadata schema, controlled vocabularies, and exercising quality.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Courses taught: LIS-S582: Digital Preservation; LIS-S604: Tools for Digital Preservation

Athens, Georgia Area

Accessioned, arranged, and described archival collections (paper records, digital objects, audiovisual recordings, and artifacts) in accordance with DACS and other professional standards and best practices, created online finding aids using Archivists’ Toolkit, and promoted collections through blog posts and subject guides.Managed the Russell Library’s.

Muncie, Indiana

Responsible for management of the Stoeckel Archives of Local History, Middletown Studies Collection, and other special collections.Interacted with donors to acquire new archival collections and digital resources.Processed, digitized, preserved, and promoted use of Archives and Special Collections materials, including personal and family papers.

Pierre, SD

Lead archivist for a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grant-funded project to process a large backlog (approximately 1,700 cubic feet) of state, county, and municipal government records in various formats including photographs, maps, film, audiovisual recordings, and digital media. Responsibilities included determining.

Chicago, IL

Responsible for the arrangement and description of the Economic Analysis and Planning Department records of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (formerly the Chicago Board of Trade).

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Assisted with the instruction of a graduate-level archives course (LIS 590CA: Community Archives, Documenting Heritage and Identity) by facilitating class discussion, monitoring students' online forum posts, conducting research, and initiating contact with partner organizations in the local community.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Designed and managed a project to improve end-user access to special collections held by the University of Illinois Library through the creation of new, and enrichment of existing, descriptive and administrative metadata. Duties included researching and evaluating existing descriptions and accession records for special collections, identifying collections.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Provided reference services to patrons conducting genealogy and local history research, arranged and described archival records and manuscript collections, created finding aids to improve the accessibility of archival holdings.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Taught discussion sections for a general education course (EALC 250: Introduction to Japanese Culture), designed lesson plans and quizzes, evaluated students' written coursework, worked individually with students to improve their writing and overall performance in the course.

Ithaca, NY

Tutored participating Japanese language students to improve their study skills, managed audio-visual equipment used to evaluate student performance during class sessions.

Master Of Library & Information Science (Mlis)

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Asian Studies (Japanese History And Religion)

Japanese Falcon (Full-Year Asian Language Concentration) Program

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Religion And Classical Studies