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Hamden, Ct, Us

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

New Haven, Ct

Provided reference services to children, teens, and their caregivers. Focused programming on STEAM concepts, including creating multiple on-demand videos about at home STEAM activities, as well as running a successful "Girls Who Code" cohort for 3rd-5th graders. Focused collection development duties predominantly on graphic novels, beginning chapter books, picture books, and Science and Technology

New Haven, Connecticut

Provided reference services to teen and adult patrons. Helped individuals with technology questions as well as provided one on one help with resume building and job applications. I spearheaded a successful genre book club, where patrons read any book they wanted within a specific genre and then had discussions about themes and topics. I helped facilitate a lecture series titled "democracy in America" with Yale University.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Orange, Ct

Greater New York City Area

Reviewed current Bureau of Recycling and Sustainability retention practices and updated their portion of the NYC records retention schedule to conform to current city and state standards, for both paper and born-digital materials.Created and presented educational materials for staff to introduce them to records retention.Implemented bureau-wide file naming standards.Created read-only LAN directory as a records management tool. Worked with the Municipal Library to set up regular ingest schedule for new publications, and prepared old publications for transfer.

44 Beaver St, Ny, Ny

Prepared approximately 100 linear feet of materials for transfer to the Municipal Archives of New York City.Surveyed material, created processing plan, implemented processing plan, and created a folder level finding aid in excel file.Taught archival best practices to BRS staff and collections interns

Greater New York City Area

Performed an inventory of approximately 700 linear feet of serials and printed ephemera. Organizing this inventory based on general subject categories. Pulled titles already cataloged to be added to the current serials record. Created artificial collections for un-cataloged serials based on subject. Began steps to process and catalog the materials based on subject area.Prepped approximately 250 reel-to-reels, and approximately 300 cassette tapes of oral-history interviews for digitization. Edited transcripts of oral-history interviews into institutionally standardized format. Created biographical and scope notes for approximately 100 individual oral histories, whose narrators were participants in the New York City Immigrant Labor Project. Created a base level finding aid of each oral-history interview to allow for researchers to request specific interviews related to their work. Other work: accessioning and inventorying of newly acquired collections, foldering and labeling materials.

Greater New York City Area

Performed in-person and virtual reference at Bobst Library, NYU.Worked specifically with librarians who had subject specialties in: Fashion, History, Health Science, Business, English Literature, and Middle Eastern Studies.Worked alongside bibliographic instruction librarians to provide instruction to both introductory library courses and subject specific courses.Created lesson plans for bibliographic instruction.Created sample collection development plans for both large and small institutions

Greater New York City Area

Completed a detailed survey and inventory of the collection, RG211-War Manpower Commission Region II, including folder level scope and content notes and subject headings of 25 linear feet of material.Digitized a selection of materials. Completed item level directory of scope and content notes, and subject headings.Surveyed approximately 10 linear feet of materials dated 1780-1880. Created report detailing conservation needs.Surveyed collection of photographs, negatives, cyanotypes, and glass plate negatives from the late 19th and early 20th century. Wrote conservation proposal for this material and moved material into appropriate housing.

Greater New York City Area

Performed data migration from Microsoft Access to Archivist Toolkit of approximately 25 legacy databases.Surveyed, created processing plan for, and processed three collections:o The Harry Schwartz Collectiono The H. Maxon Holloway Collectiono The Guion Family Papers

Master Of Arts - Ma, Archives/Public History

Activities and Societies: New England Archivists, Archivists Round Table of New York, Society of American Archivists.Coursework in Digital.

Master Of Library & Information Science - Mlis, Library And Information Science

Activities and Societies: American Library Association, METRO, Connecticut Library AssociationCoursework in Reference (including.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society