Rachel Henson Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

-Leading development of internal company archive and museum.-Game Data Librarian for the the Pokémon Trading Card Game product team; database management.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Game Data Librarian for the Pokémon Trading Card Game product team.

Carl Albert Congressional Research And Studies Center

Head of archival processing and reference at the Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections. Appraisal of new collections and accruals. Regular report writing and data visualization. Large-scale metadata generation, curation, importation, management and standardization. Taxonomy/tagging experience. Negotiating with donors. Adhering to archival standards and best practicies. Maintaining documentation of all processes in the archive. Beginning to end project management of Congressional collection processing team projects.Archival Research Collections (ARC) Consortium Co-Chair. Leading meetings and workshops. Training new users in ArchivesSpace. Advising other archivists in metadata crosswalking. Fulfilling reference and research requests from a wide variety of patrons in-person, over the phone, or via email. Instructing patrons in use of online finding aid database. Advising on complex patron research projects. Conducting in-depth research. Preparing archival material for visits and digitizing archival material for distance patrons.Archival instruction to classes. Providing support to professors who use digital collections or archival material. Planning community engagement projects and events. Creating content for social media. Exhibit design. Curating traveling and online exhibits. Proprietary and open accesses web site, database, and digital asset management experience.Collections management and maintenance. Automated subject headings using text analysis in R. Creating policies and workflows. Grant writing, reviewing, and providing feedback on collaborative grants and projects. Improving access to archival materials in response to customer needs.Supervising a team of student workers, interns, volunteers and graduate assistants. Managing off-site facility. Oversaw off-site facility move in June 2019.

Part-time, temporary project archivist for the College of Arts and Sciences.

Boston, Ma

Interned under the Electronic Records Archivist working on the Governor Patrick electronic records acquisition. Surveyed and wrote an inventory for the acquisitions. Imported records and wrote metadata for use in archival access system using Preservica and Re:Discovery.

Cambridge, Ma

Managed SharePoint intranet library of technical data for company-wide access. Document/publication locating, purchasing, and e-delivery. Library and archives reference services to engineers, scientists, and business ops employees. Corporate intelligence research and data management experience. Processed two internal archival collections of government and scientific documents, both paper based and digital. Wrote finding aids and updated the processing plan for future archival work.

Cambridge, Ma

Worked in the Youth Services department of a large public library. Provided reference and reader's advisory to children and teenagers from a diverse population. Cross-trained to work in circulation. Other tasks included creating displays, reader advisory, weeding, shelving and assisting with programs.

Lexington, Ma

Processed the Jacob Norton Collection. Implemented preservation tactics, arranged documents, described documents, wrote a finding aid and cataloged the collection.

Worked in the Current Periodicals department in a large academic library. Provided reference to college students, professors and visiting researchers including research assistance in the microfilm area as well as current periodicals. Other tasks included helping patrons with computer needs, locating resources for InterLibrary Loan, and cataloging new serials, periodicals, and microfilm.

Norman, Ok

Worked as an intern for a literary magazine under the managing editor. Duties included copyediting, researching, and organizing materials. Wrote two minor articles for the magazine.

Master Of Library & Information Science - Mlis, Archives Management

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Literature

Activities and Societies: Chronic Illness Awareness Association (Secretary). Phi Sigma Pi- Gamma Phi Chapter (Scholarship Chair).Minors.