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College Park, Maryland

• Accession, arrange, process, catalog, and write finding aids for manuscript collections.
• Provide reference services to patrons in the Niels Bohr Library and Archives.
• Participate in other library responsibilities such as outreach on blog and social media, tours, and digitization projects.
• Supervise Archives Assistant on archival processing tasks, including editing metadata and finding aids.
• Serve as the records management liaison for the Niels Bohr Library & Archives and… Show more
• Serve as the records management liaison for the Niels Bohr Library & Archives and the Center for the History of Physics. Show less

Rockville, Maryland

• Previous Client: National Library of Medicine
• Perform web archiving tasks including recommending seeds, creating metadata for seeds, initiating crawls, and performing quality assurance on results
• Communicate with clients in meetings and via email on a weekly basis
• Train temporary employees on web archiving tasks
• Stay apprised of current events related to the subjects of the collectionsPrevious Client: Museum of Ventura County
• Meet and collaborate with… Show more Previous Client: National Library of Medicine

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Survey and minimally process archival collections within the parameters of a grant-funded CCPF collaborative project, including collections at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Archives, the National Museum.
• Perform basic preservation duties including rehousing in acid-free folders and boxes
• Create DACS-compliant finding aids for collections utilizing Archivists’… Show more
• Create DACS-compliant finding aids for collections utilizing Archivists’ Toolkit
• Maintain processing statistics and complete monthly progress reports Show less

Boston, Massachusetts

• Complete box and folder listings for records from the T.H. Chan School of Public Health and rare books; label and barcode for transfer to offsite storage; flag material in need of preservation or conservation treatment
• Assist the HSPH archivist with physical transfers and material surveys
• Digitize the manuscript of Dr. Perry Baird and quality control check material
• Maintain workflow and project statistics using Microsoft Access database

Dorchester, Massachusetts

• Appraise institutional records and create a processing plan; assign intellectual order, assess long-term storage and preservation needs, and restrictions for sensitive material
• Arrange and describe records and perform preservation measures including rehousing, and basic preservation for compromised paper records and photographs
• Supervise and train an undergraduate intern on basic archiving best practices and procedures

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Provided in-person and remote reference services; supervised the Carol K. Pforzheimer reading room
• Completed outreach projects utilizing Flickr, Wikipedia, and Libguides
• Scanned material and quality control checked scans for long-distance researchers
• Paged archival materials for patrons and staff for research and exhibit creation; and assigned usage to patron records in FileMaker Pro database

Boston, Massachusetts

• Performed comprehensive rehousing and ingestion of the Visual and Media Arts Department MFA audiovisual theses (381 multimedia disks) into the archive servers
• Prepared metadata for digital objects using Dublin Core
• Created DACS-compliant finding aid in AtoM
• Researched and wrote comprehensive digital preservation recommendations and workflow for further accruals

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Input tangible acquisitions for the MIT libraries using ALEPH library software
• Coordinated and prepared book shipments to academic publishing vendors

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Performed environment scans of digital preservation policies and procedures at national and international repositories
• Reviewed and critiqued educational resources for the Digital Preservation Management Workshop
• Created survey of session proposals on SurveyMonkey for the Society of American Archivists’ Research Forum, 2014

Boston, Massachusetts

• Arranged and described new accruals to the collection of the International Lilac Society, 1958-present. 21.0 linear feet
• Created DACS-compliant finding aid using Archivist’s Toolkit

Vancouver, Washington

• Processed newly acquisitioned artificial collections and performed reference interviews for new patrons
• Developed workshops and training materials about headstone cleaning for volunteers
• Coordinated and conducted research for Old City Cemetery settler research projects with graduate students from the Washington State University (Vancouver) History Department

Master Of Library & Information Science (Mlis)

Bachelor’S Degree