Dory Klein Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Greater Boston

• Work closely with community partners to design, implement, and support digital history projects via the Boston Research Center (BRC), a digital archives and community history partnership with Northeastern University
• Foster ethical community relationships with new and existing organizational partners
• Work across BRC and BPL departments to establish best practices and workflows for the design and implementation of community history projects, including method-specific documentation, as well as digitization.
• Provide instruction services on a variety of technical and topic-based subjects to a range of public and academic library audiences
• Work closely with library branches to develop public programs centered around themes of community history, local history research methods, oral history, memoir and personal narrative writing, and digital history
• Hire, train, supervise, and mentor interns and graduate student workers

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Provided botanical and horticultural reference and research assistance to patrons and users of the Horticultural HelpLine, using a variety of print and electronic resources
• Developed and implemented youth and adult programming and outreach services
• Managed all aspects of reference and circulation, including training and supervision of 30 volunteers, visitor support, and collection and analysis of visitor feedback
• Managed all aspects of collection management, including accepting and processing donated materials
• Managed all aspects of the archives and special collections, including processing materials and preservation management
• Cultivated relationships with departments across the Garden as well as community stakeholders

Greater Boston Area

• Curate and install exhibitions using historic and contemporary cartographic materials and other objects
• Provide cartographic and geographic reference and research assistance to library patrons, using a wide variety of print and electronic resources
• Develop and deliver adult and K-12 programming
• Foster relationships with Boston Public Library departments and community partners, and implement exhibitions beyond the Map Center gallery
• Manage all aspects of the gallery, including supervision of Gallery Attendants, physical maintenance of the gallery, visitor management, and collection and analysis of visitor feedback
• Manage social media, including curating content from others, generating content, and analyzing results

Boston, MA

• Teach K-12 student groups primary source interpretation, both in the Map Center and in school classrooms
• Maintain educator database, education section of website, and program evaluations
• Assist with professional development workshops for K-12 teachers
• Manage social media for the Map Center
• Create and run public programming for family audiences and adult audiences
• Manage gallery attendant staff

Boston, MA

• Teach K-12 student groups about the stories maps tell connected to the American Revolution, Boston history and other curriculum areas
• Maintain educator database, education section of website, and program evaluations
• Maintain regular communication with K-12 educators through newsletters and social media

Boston, MA

• Answer reference questions and queries regarding the map collection, local history and geography, the Map Center, and the Boston Public Library
• Manage the Map Center’s Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts
• Assist the Curator, Director of Education and Public Programming, and Research Librarian with special projects, including giving gallery tours, assisting with field trips, and filing and organizing items in secure.

Greater Boston Area

• Provide reference services to the public using informational resources in all formats, including print, electronic, microform, and others.
• Provide service to adults, young adults and children through personal consultations, readers’ advisory services, outreach, and programs
• Assist patrons by instructing them in the use of information resources
• Promote the use of Library resources by developing research guides and bibliographies, preparing written descriptions, organizing programs, and conducting instructional sessions

Boston, MA

• Create MARC records for both single items (broadsides, scrapbooks, images, photographs, manuscripts) and small manuscript collections
• Process, create finding aids, and create or revise MARC records for small manuscript and artifact collections
• Deposit finding aids in DSpace, the State Library’s digital repository

Department Of History

• Perform administrative duties such as publicizing department events, organizing theses, maintaining department bulletin board, assisting faculty members with projects, and copying and filing
• Publish a biannual department newsletter
• Manage the History Department’s Facebook page

Boston, MA

• Reprocessed a collection, created an accompanying finding aid, and made preservation recommendations as part of a semester-long internship

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Oversaw patient financial assistance programs by maintaining contact with the donating organizations, submitting invoices, and managing documentation
• Verified insurance coverage, obtained authorization for services, and ensured accuracy of codes and charges

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Scheduled patient appointments by phone and online
• Managed appointment confirmation calls and prescription refills
• Verified insurance policies and benefits

• Researched and compiled statistical data and market information as part of the due diligence assessment of a hospital and primary care clinic merger
• Reviewed grant applications submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for applicants seeking federally qualified health center status
• Evaluated applicants’ compliance with grant requirements and provided targeted feedback to evaluators

• Performed initial edits on interview transcripts to be published in academic, industry, and government journals
• Researched and compiled information relevant to upcoming articles and internal marketing and production

• Aided an author in the process of writing children’s and young adult book series by researching subject matter and outlining plot points
• Organized, formatted, and indexed over 1,000 pages of information relevant to the internal workings of a series of young adult novels

• Trained and managed volunteers as part of the voter mobilization program
• Established and implemented targeted lists of voters and volunteers using the VoteBuilder database

• Streamlined the editorial acceptance and production processes by initiating a classification and tracking system for incoming article submissions
• Reviewed citations to ensure that they adhered to the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) format

Master Of Arts (M.A.) In History, Master Of Science (M.S.) In Archives Management, History, Archives Management

Activities and Societies: SCoSAA, AHA, ALA

Ba, English, Anthropology

Activities and Societies: University Program Board, Boarderline (snowboarding club), March of Dimes, Mercy House, Relay for Life