Krystal Thomas Email & Phone Number

Tallahassee, Fl, Us

Strozier Library

I was active in the development and migration into the FSU Digital Library (FSUDL) and works as one of its primary managers as well as continuing to participate in the Florida Islandora development project. My current everyday work is a mix of digital project creation and management, supervision of the Digital Library Center and acting as a consultant for digital archiving projects on campus. I work with the Office of Digital Scholarship in FSU Libraries as well to help develop and shepherd digital humanities projects into the FSUDL as well. As a member of the division of Special Collections & Archives, I have been a main member of the ongoing inventory and finding aid cleanup project team for the division as well as contributing hours to the Special Collections Reference Desk, being the primary point person for our webpages and our blog as well as helping to maintain our Archon instance.

Dickinson, North Dakota

Developed, maintained and coordinated the metadata strategy and content entry of over 25,000 records into the digital library, Coordinated the digital projects at our contributing partners throughout the country including the Library of Congress, Harvard College Library and the National Park Service, Conducted copyright review research and due diligence contacts of over 6,000 records, Created the social media strategy and maintained the Center’s social media presence which included founding the TR Center blog, Twitter and Facebook accounts, Trained and supervised over 30 interns, volunteers and student workers, both on site and off, who were working with the digital collections, Helped plan, evaluate and maintain the new website for the TR Center which includes the Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library’s public portal, Assisted researchers working in the digital collections remotely through email and phone, and Cataloged and maintained the small archival collection at the Center (roughly 50 archival items and a small library of over 100 books)

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Abstracted newspaper articles for the Influenza Digital Archive

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Developed and ran a digitization project involving their photo, slide and advertising poster collection which included over 1,000 items in their collections. Advised them on the equipment and software needed and helped form the new database requirements. Conducted research on early women dental graduates for a future museum exhibit.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Worked on digitization projects; scanned barcodes, dis-bound books for scanning off-site, quality control of returned digital scans, some basic preservation and in-house scanning.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Worked on an on-going digitization project; a collection of photos, newspaper clippings and press releases from the Science Service. The photos ranged from the 1920s to the late 1960s. Re-housed the collection folder by folder, scanned over 500 photos and entered them into the photo database and updated the finding aid. Worked also at one of their outlying facilities, processing collections and updating finding aids. Some basic preservation.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

General office help; worked on filing and organization of a grading system, filed financial paperwork, organized old files with a new labeling system, responsible for the mail and worked on a photo organization project.

Syracuse, New York Area

Processed invoices both out and in, handled financial input into computers. Entered data on inventory, printed and filed new orders, scheduled those orders and dealt with the production scheduling for the workshop. Entered payments and updated the accounting system. Answered phones and handled customer service inquiries. Managed the office in Toms River, Summer 2006.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Processed new accessions, followed several collections through arrangement and description to their inclusion in the archive. The arrangement and description of a series of World War II letters (finding aid: http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/manuscripts/collections/ms_084.dot) and the appraisal, arrangement and description of the papers of the Gettysburg Women’s Commission (finding aid: http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/manuscripts/collections/ms_085.dot). Worked on a project to digitize the photos in the college archives, which included researching the background of the photos, entering the collected metadata into a central database to be displayed with the photos in the on-line collection. (http://www.gettysburg.edu/library/gettdigital/historic/index.html)

Gettysburg, Pennslyvania

Opened and organized the mail and manuscripts to be processed, processed rejected and withdrawn manuscripts, sent out issues of the magazine, processed checks and credit cards, shelved issues of exchanging magazines, and proofread galleys.

Certificate Of Completion

The Frontline Leadership Program is a skill training program designed for new supervisors, developing team leaders or front-line.

Msi, Archives And Records Management

Activities and Societies: Society of American Archivists - Student Chapter Selected Coursework: Introduction to Archives and Records.

Ba, English And Women'S Studies

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Concert Choir, GC Women's Commission Fall 2005: Student at University College.