I design and implement strategies that preserve and promote cultural and organizational memory. Reporting to the Head of Collections Management, I specialize in stewarding special collections, university archives, and institutional repositories. My expertise spans collection development, digital transformation, policy creation, and community engagement, aligning archival practices with evolving academic and organizational needs.Strategic Leadership: Execute strategies to acquire, preserve, and provide access to special manuscript collections and university records, including faculty and alumni papers, publications, and institutional documentation. Promote archives as essential resources for teaching, research, and public engagement.Collection Development: Expand collections to align with institutional goals, ensuring diverse perspectives are represented. Enhance repositories to preserve and provide access to administrative research data and university publications.Accessioning Oversight: Oversee processes to establish control over acquisitions and streamline workflows for new and backlogged collections across formats, ensuring efficiency and compliance.Records Policy Development: Provide expertise on developing and implementing records schedules aligned with legal and regulatory frameworks. Educate on lifecycle management and best practices for records retention.Digital Transformation: Modernize archival processes by integrating advanced digital systems, improving security, accessibility, and long-term preservation of born-digital materials.Operational Leadership: Manage and mentor staff and students, fostering collaboration and maintaining effective preservation systems to safeguard culturally significant resources.

As the inaugural Accessioning Archivist at Boston College's John J. Burns Special Collections Library, I collaborated with colleagues to develop and launch a program supporting the library’s mission. Together, we oversaw the accessioning process for archives, institutional records, and special collections, working to create, document, and improve workflows for the acquisition and preservation of both analog and born-digital materials. During this time, our team reviewed digital preservation practices, implemented the Born-Digital Acquisition Program, and renewed Boston College’s partnership with the Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust), a consortium of higher education institutions committed to preserving digital content. We also launched interactive and extensible description processes, enhancing access to and usability of archival collections.

As a reference librarian for Springfield City Library, I provided both adult and children's library reference and programming services at the main library and its urban area branches. Urban Libraries Council selected Springfield for an honorable mention in the council's fifth annual Top Innovators Award in recognition for its "Imagine A Peace-Full City" project, which it developed in response to the problem of community violence in 2014.

Deliver face-to-face training and consultations with university staffers seeking help in creating effective recordkeeping systems.Lead revisions to the Records Management website with the overarching goal of providing the University community with “ready reference” information and tools that communicate the value and continued relevance of archives and archivists within the University’s information ecosystem.Management of Record Center Storage, including the retrieval of requested files, and the identification and disposition of materials fallen out of retention, resulting in destruction, transferal to the permanent Bentley collection, or in their return to the originating unit.Planned, prepared and managed the transfer of approximately 1,500 linear feet of Record Center Storage records to the NCRC facility from the Annex, the Fire Station, and Bentley. During the course of this work, I mapped out and located the boxes to shelves, assisted Curation with their barcoding efforts, and provided updated record-level description in ArchivesSpace.Supported and maintained a clear account of the University of Michigan as well as the history of people and organizations in the state of Michigan through virtual and on-site appraisal of paper-based and digital record and manuscript materials, including websites. Created or oversaw the creation of initial collection-level description for University Archives holdings, ensuring responsible administrative and physical control and basic intellectual access for all material at the time of accession, providing an infrastructure upon which further archival work will be built. Collaborated on intradepartmental initiatives and workflows such as the development and documentation of iterative digital appraisal practices, the expansion, and routinization of processes related to the identification and baseline description of removable media content, audiovisual content, and web content capture.

As a project archivist, I supported the work of acquisitions and appraisal field archivists across both the University Archives and the Michigan Historical Collection.

As a project archivist during an organizational restructuring, I worked with the College Archivist to document and refine policies for accessioning, digital processing, and collection control. I developed and delivered staff training on updated workflows, managed the acquisition and description of institutional records and manuscripts, and provided administrative reference services. Mentoring student staff on preservation and digitization initiatives was especially rewarding, aligning with repository needs while contributing to my professional growth. I also contributed to several library-wide initiatives, including the Neilson Library Renovation Project Committee.

During the allotted time, I completed a unique project surveying, processing, reclassifying, and conserving a recent accession of multilingual post-WWII materials featuring the correspondence between Marie Bonaparte, Heinz Hartmann and Anna Freud and members of the International Psychoanalytic Society. Totaling 12 linear feet, the project required the creation of original metadata for digitized materials generated from institutional records. After determining manuscript materials in need of conservation treatment and recommending appropriate treatment, I researched potential manuscript content and made recommendations to the BPSI archivist including the identification of restricted records, out-of-scope manuscript materials as well as cases necessitating deaccessioning and transference to associated institutions. During this assignment, I was encouraged to conduct independent research focused upon special libraries, access and HIPAA compliancy for peer-to-peer instruction.

In addition to staffing the circulation desk, reference desk and computer common areas, I regularly provided reference in-person and via phone. In support of my graduate LIS education, the director actively sought out opportunities for me to stretch my legs and assigned me regular work including senior outreach, formal digital and research instruction, compilation of reader advisory products and displays for children, YA, and adults. I took advantage of several opportunities to learn more about technical backend ILL operations (ie: Virtual Catalog, Evergreen) in addition to basic circulation functions such as the reservation of materials, holds and patron registration. My participation in discussions surrounding UX website design, technical writing for Board documentation, and patron statistical reporting was also encouraged.

The Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Resource (PBMR) is a mapping of publications about Pompeii onto the space of the ancient city itself, creating a unified, bi-directional interface to both resources.My role involved the normalization of still image metadata from various international sources. I edited and performed multilingual quality control for nearly 3,000 citations and their metadata, creating well-formed structured and descriptive metadata in conformity to the project's needs. Created structural and descriptive metadata for digitization. Performed quality control check of over 3,000 multilingual bibliographic citations and their metadata.