Matt Eidem Email & Phone Number

Rochester, Minnesota Area

I currently oversee the day-to-day operations at Historic Forestville which is one of the 13 managed sites operated by the Minnesota Historical Society.

Moorhead, MN

As part of my capacity at the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County I managed the Historic Solomon Gilman Comstock House on behalf of the Minnesota Historical Society. Because in the non-profit world no job is too small I am doing everything at the house from overseeing the tours to vacuuming the floors and running the boilers.

Moorhead, MN

Oversee all interns and work-study students from local universitiesCoordinate the shipping and receiving of incoming and outgoing exhibits.Coordinate logistics surrounding various special events and festivals at the Hjemkomst CenterOversee staffing levels at the admissions desk and gift shop.Responsible for managing the museum IT infrastructure including.

Moorhead, MN

• Creation of finding aids for over 400 linear feet of archival collections using the DACS standard.
• Supervision of student interns at the archives in basic archival processing procedures.
• Setting up an online database using PastPerfect 5.0 to make all of the museum’s archival collections searchable by the public.
• Consulting on digitization and metadata standards that will be used by the museum long-term

New Albany, Indiana

• Development of processing workflows for the library’s manuscript collections and archival collections in a multitude of formats.
• Supervised the creation of finding aids using DACS for placement online through the library’s website.
• Worked with library cataloger to develop templates for creating MARC records for Local history materials in ILS system. Trained a staff member to take the lead in these efforts.
• Development of all policies for the local history department. This included: the collection policy, access policy, and reading room rules.
• Supervise five staff members in my department in archival processing, as well as performing effective virtual and onsite reference services with the public.
• Supervised student assistants from Indiana University SE in basic archival processing

Greater Milwaukee Area

Processed archival records and manuscript collections including the final arrangement and description following professional standards and best practices. Collections ranged in size from ten to over forty linear feet and included paper, photos, scrapbooks, and some audio visual materials.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Provided services to users of the Archives Department, which included UWM students, faculty, and the general public. Such services included registering users, fielding reference questions, familiarizing users with.
• Assisted with preservation projects to rehouse and improve intellectual and physical control of visual materials, including nitrate negatives, safety film negatives, and 16mm film reels
• Assisted professional archivists in appraising donations.
• Expanded on the descriptions of oral history collections by creating abstracts of interviews.
• Processed departmental papers and manuscript collections for the archives including deciding on the final arrangement and description for the collections. Processing included creating a MARC record uploaded to OCLC's.

Masters, Library & Information Science - Concentration In Archival Studies

Activities and Societies: Society of American Archivists, Phi Kappa Phi, Alternative Spring BreakSpent Spring Break 2010 volunteering with.

Bachelor Of Science, Information Science And Technology

Department Scholarship Recipient 2009 3.96 GPA

Bachelor Of Arts, History, Economics

Volunteered at Nokomis Daycare Center, 2007 Volunteered at MeritCare Nursing Home Dementia Ward 2006 Awarded the Richard T Sanden Memorial.