Librarian and iPad support specialist

Duties included entering data into Banner, conducting specialized research for advancement professionals to enhance the university’s ability to secure private gift support from individuals, foundations, and corporations; analyzing and evaluating financial, statistical, and narrative documents; researching on-line databases to identify and gather information on prospective donors.

Duties included creating and editing the monthly agency newsletter in Adobe InDesign CS5; coordinating writing projects with ATF subject-matter experts; ensuring that all documents prepared by the Correspondence Unit are accurate and factual; developing authoritative information on highly technical, sensitive and controversial criminal and regulatory enforcement programs for dissemination to the Department of Justice, industry members, and the general public; composing and editing interpretative responses to inquiries from members of Congress, the Treasury Department, The White House, and other entities after policy has been determined by Bureau officials; editing material for Congressional testimony; preparing written background materials to be used both internally and externally for memorial services, graduation ceremonies, guest visits, and conferences. In addition, I support the work of the ATF Historian: I created a database catalog of ATF historical artifacts and documents; conduct conservation assessments and stabilize or repair items; provide archival descriptions for new donations; digitize photographs, slides, and documents; do archival photocopying; and write text for labels for online exhibits.

Duties included writing standard operating procedures (SOP)s; conducting research in databases and on the internet; analyzing information; creating responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests; eliciting and coordinating responses from subject matter experts; analyzing that information and crafting responses to correspondence from members of Congress, other federal agencies, and the general public, in a fast-paced, challenging, team-oriented environment with numerous deadlines and obstacles.

Duties included researching and preparing comprehensive reports, correspondence, orders, briefs, statistical summaries, training handbooks, and directives for the Chief of Staff of the Office of Intelligence and Information; serving as the technical authority and advisor for all written materials; analyzing proposals; performing program analyses; coordinating writing projects between several experts within the Directorate; recommending and developing projects; and proposing options for enhancing current procedures.

Working with Natural History Rare Book Curator, Leslie K. Overstreet, duties included creating an image database of slides from the rare book collection, writing text for an online digital rare book exhibit for the Smithsonian Libraries’ On Display Web site http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/nestsandeggs/index.htm, and scanning and editing images of 19th century publisher’s bindings for another database and Web exhibit.

Duties included all the tasks of a Library Director: managing the Library acquisitions budget, maintaining all agency journal, newspaper, database subscriptions for individual staff members, purchasing and processing Library materials, scanning for current awareness, digitizing older annual reports and historical documents for preservation and accessibility, designing and maintaining Library Intranet site, answering reference questions for the staff and the public, online database searching using RILM, NexisLexis, DIALOG, Arts & Humanities Index, Contemporary Authors, etc., automating the Library catalog, creating a circulation database in Microsoft Access, arranging for Interlibrary Loan, describing, accessioning, creating finding aids for NEA archival materials in vertical file, recruiting, training and overseeing Library interns, publishing scholarly articles and presenting conference papers, and working closely with the staff members of the NEA, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the National Endowment for the Humanities on research projects.

Duties included all the tasks of Library Director: managing the Library operating and acquisitions budget, purchasing and setting up Library computers; selecting monographs and journals; cataloguing and processing Library materials; writing book reviews; publishing Library newsletter; maintaining subscriptions to 650 journals; scanning for current awareness; creating bibliographies; producing finding aids for archival and loose leaf materials; providing reference services in person, via telephone, and by email to the public, visiting scientists, authors, scientific illustrators, news media reporters, and the Museum’s scientific staff using databases, OPACs, the internet, government documents, topographic and geologic maps, and archival materials; selecting, training, and evaluating a staff of twelve Library volunteers; overseeing an exchange program with 350 international scientific institutions; providing Interlibrary Loan services; managing a circulation database; writing grant proposals; digitizing images and documents for Web exhibits.As well as, creating the library Web site in HTML, designing and creating educational exhibits in the Museum’s galleries, providing bibliographic instruction to the staff and the public, presenting curatorial talks, presenting and publishing scholarly papers, teaching classes about the history of books, scientific illustration, and the book arts.

Duties included reference services to staff and public, bibliographic instruction, ILL, cataloguing and processing Library materials, maintaining circulation records, shelving books, training volunteers, giving Library tours, and preparing mailings.

I worked here until I was laid off in 1983; then I went back to college full time.