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New York, United States

• Responsible for the Library and Archives administration: departmental leadership and direction; development, preservation, and access to collections; reference services; digitization initiatives; departmental.
• Supervise up to 10 staff members, contractors, interns, and volunteers.
• Provide reference services, including request approval, conducting primary historical research, arranging on-site visits and tours, scheduling loans, and approving of publication requests.
• Project Manager for state, national, and private grants totaling more than $220,000 for archives processing and digitization projects. Responsible for developing project narratives and workflows, processing and.
• Created and implemented a records retention policy and schedules containing a general institutional policy and specialized department policies.

• Spearheaded overhaul of library resources, including the management of retrospective cataloging project of 20,000 volumes; the creation of a library collection development policy and establishment of a collection.
• Initiated archives survey of 5,000 cubic feet of material, including updated box-level information, database update and redesign, adaptation of processing manual, collection-wide processing, and standards for creating.
• Managed institutional document disaster recovery for more than 2,000 linear feet of primary and secondary source material.

• Arranged, described, and provided preservation for more than 300 cubic feet of business collections including digital, paper, and ephemeral records.
• Input metadata, monitored workflows, and created collection groups for custom digital asset management system.
• Assisted in fulfilling research requests and staff inquiries.
• Participated in departmental decisions for prioritizing processing of archives collections.

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