Isabel Evans Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• Conducting provenance research on 72 monographs and serials dating from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries in order to determine if these items were part of a bequest of books from the library of Enlightenment.
• Making detailed notes of all evidence of ownership according to DCRM(B) standards, which will be used to enhance ownership data in the catalogue and improve the bibliographic records for these titles
• Using findings to aid in the creation of a list of books owned by Bentham that survive in the UCL collections
• Contributing to an upcoming pop-up display at the UCL Research Institute for Collections Annual Showcase (23 May) and the 2024 Utilitarian Studies Conference (18 – 20 June) to share project findings with scholars.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Creating and implementing an in-house classification scheme adapted from the National Library of Medicine for the approximately 3,000 books in the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS)’s Archive Collection, which will.
• Making or editing catalogue records for all resources in the BCS Archive Collection (books, journals, medical instruments, papers, photographs, and other archival materials), including introducing cataloguing standards.
• Collaborating as a team with 3 fellow volunteers, also from the UCL MA LIS course, alongside BCS professional staff and the BCS Archives Committee to complete this project

Claremont, California, United States

• Led team of 17 – 23 student library assistants in keeping the library open and operating smoothly and safely during the Covid-19 pandemic
• Served as the first point of contact for student library assistants, as well as their liaison with librarians and professional staff
• Collaborated with librarians to organise staff events, coordinate scheduling, and train new staff in library procedures and projects
• Supported library users at the public service desk service desk by thoughtfully answering their reference and directional questions and by assisting them in locating materials in the online catalogue or on the shelves
• Helped fulfil special collections research requests by checking users into the rare materials reading area, paging items on their behalf, and giving instruction in proper handling techniques
• Contributed to outreach efforts and instruction during public events, class visits, and other programming to increase community participation and awareness of library collections

Claremont, California, United States

• Project Title: “Reading as Resistance: Representations of Indigeneity in Twentieth Century American Children’s Literature”
• Designed, proposed, and carried out an independent research project that examined children’s books written by and for Indigenous peoples as a radical mode of resistance against colonial structures
• Created a list of 28 recommended children’s books to add to Denison Library and assisted in acquiring 18 of these titles
• My project was recognised with the Claremont Colleges Library Undergraduate Resesarch Award, given to “Claremont Colleges students who demonstrate exemplary research and scholarship, including remarkable skill and.

Claremont, California, United States

• This fellowship supported me in conducting original research using the oral histories preserved in the American Indian Community History Center Records at the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley as.

Claremont, California, United States

• Conducted independent research on Green Revolving Funds (GRFs), a mechanism for funding sustainable projects on college campuses, to develop a model for a GRF that could be implemented at Scripps College
• Arranged interviews and meet representatives from peer institutions with GRFs to gain practical information about the process of starting and operating a GRF
• Proposed a GRF in meetings with Scripps College senior leadership to begin the process of formally approving and implementing a GRF

Claremont, California, United States

• Project Title: “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: Environmental Education Curriculum at Federal Indian Schools as a Conduit for Colonial Violence”
• Designed, proposed, and carried out an independent research project that interrogated the ways residential schools used environmental education curriculum as a mechanism to attempt to “Americanise” Native children and.
• Used Bureau of Indian Affairs records at the National Archives at Riverside and American Indian Community History Center Records at the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley to conduct research

Claremont, California, United States

• Project Title: “Spinning Subversive Stories: Race and Representation in Twentieth Century American Children’s Literature”
• Designed, proposed, and carried out an independent research project that located authors and illustrators of colour who carved out spaces for exploring counter-hegemonic possibilities through the children’s book form

Master Of Arts - Ma, Library And Information Studies

Dissertation: "'What’s in a Name?': Towards Recognising Unacknowledged Contributors to the Historic Production of Printed Books within.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English, Summa Cum Laude (American Equivalent Of First Class Honours)

Thesis: "'Witness For Her': The Vanderbilt Variant of 'Further in Summer than the Birds' and the Stakes of Transcribing Emily Dickinson’s.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Environmental Analysis (Policy Emphasis), Summa Cum Laude (American Equivalent Of First Class Honours)

Thesis: "This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: Environmental Education Curriculum at Federal Indian Schools as a Conduit for.