Sarah Mason Email & Phone Number

I provide client and service management, consultancy services and business development for customers globally, while based in the UK. I mainly work with Archivematica (digital preservation) clients, but am also involved with AtoM (Access to Memory, Archival description) clients.Support that I provide includes:- Archivematica and AtoM demos, webinars and training- Consultancy services, including workflow development and advice- Managed services for Archivematica and AtoM users- Software support for clients- involvement with QA processes for software releases- updating and maintaining documentation- logging issues for both projects in GitHub- support for large projects, including QA, client management, training, documentation and workflow advice

Awarded Adjunct Lecturer position in June 2021 to continue sessional teaching.- teach and write/update subject material for School of Information and Communication Studies (SICS) courses; and- mark assignments for SICS courses, both undergraduate and graduate levelsCourses coordinated or taught:INF443: Digital Curation and Preservation (subject coordinator)INF461: Introduction to Data Management (subject coordinator)INF449: Research Data Management (assistant)Courses developed: INF219: Web Publishing for Information AgenciesINF443: Digital Curation and PreservationINF465: Special CollectionsCoures marked:INF210: CollectionsETL503: Resourcing the CurriculumINF321: Research in PracticeINF447: Introduction to ResearchINF449: Research Data ManagementINF463: Data analysis

Oxford, United Kingdom

Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge was a two-year collaborative project that aimed to assess the current state of digital preservation at each institution and address current needs. The project built on existing expertise in the field and promoted knowledge sharing. As the outreach and training fellow, my role consisted of:-managing the collaborative website and creating content;-managing the Twitter account and engaging with the digital preservation community;-undertaking a skills audit and gap analysis;-designing and implementing training programmes based on the gap analysis and staff feedback;-trialling and improving training programmes to address skills gaps;-contributing to a business case to ensure continued staff development and resources for digital preservation and curation; and-disseminating findings to the wider digital preservation community through journal articles and conferences.For more project details please visit: www.dpoc.ac.uk or follow @BDLSS on Twitter and search for #dp0c for past project updates. For project documentation, reports and datasets, please visit: www.ora.ox.ac.uk and search for: dpoc

Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities included:-Photograph and scan collection items for Direct Delivery services, exhibitions, publications, condition reporting and digitisation projects;-photograph spaces or special events when related to collection material or digitisation projects;-develop and pitch proposals for photographic-related library projects;-promote awareness about the department and digitisation through presentations, social media involvement, and co-writing and co-starring in a video for the SLV website (see below);-assist with the development and design of SLV social media content, particuarly in regards to digisation and digital collections;-train staff in Digital Preservation as a certified Library of Congress DPOE trainer;-manage metadata sheets for cataloguing and image linking;-creating bibliographic records for cataloguing projects, such as the comics collection and rare-printed material;-liaise with internal and external clients regarding digitisation projects and order requests;-design and write proposals, implement, and deliver photographic and collections-based projects for the Library;-analyse monthly Direct Delivery statistics; and-create and update procedural manuals and project workflows.Committiees/Groups:-Collection Content Social Media working group-PICTORIA working group-Digital Preservation training group-Relais User Group-Staff Conference working group-2012/13 Staff member on the Selection CommitteeTraining:-DPOE training through Library of Congress and NSLA-Shared Leadership Program 2015

Melbourne, Australia

This role required strong communication skills as I was first contact for library patrons regarding all public programming and educational queries for State Library Victoria.

Originally began as administrative assistant but moved to the role of law library assistant.Responsibilities included: - maintained and updated the library and library catalogue;- processed new library acquisitions and updated loose-leaf publications;- edited and managed library intranet content;- assisted lawyers with research questions;- maintained onsite archives and database; and- met with publishers and worked on yearly budgets for new and existing printed and internet library subscriptions.

Through conducting ISO hours, I was given the opportunity to partake in a range of tasks in the museum as a Graduate Collections Assistant, including:-catalogued, labelled and housed new acquisitions for the Eastman Legacy Collection;-conducted research queries;-completed digitisation and cataloguing projects for the Photograph Collection, including the creation of finding aids;-conducted condition reports and packing for outgoing loans;-researched and created a timeline of the history of photography and film for the children’s exhibition; and-prepared summary reports on new objects for review by the Acquisitions Committee.As Visitor Services Representative, I was responsible for the main customer service desk at the museum. I also ran special events and assisted researchers with their visit to the library and archives.

Toronto, Canada

I completed research of George Eastman House's Muybridge Locomotive Series, which included checking over 700 fragile collotype negatives. I reviewed Muybridge's journals and negatives for plate number, series number and duplication information in order to complete a database of Muybridge's locomotive work for Professor M. Braun's research.

Adelaide, Australia

I began a digitising and catalogue project for the A.D. Edwardes Shipping Collection and succeeded in preparing over 25% of the collection for the online catalogue as well as preparing documentation to assist future volunteers and staff with completing the project. The A.D. Edwardes Shipping Collection is comprised of over 8,000 photographs of sailing and shipping vessels from around the world mounted in over 91 volumes.Responsibilities included:-digitising original photographs from the albums using Microtek scanning equipment;-completing colour corrections and cropping using Adobe Photoshop;-created item-level bibliographic records for the library's catalogue;-labelled each original photograph in the collection for processing and cataloguing;-completed research on vessels and unidentified ports; and-created a reports on the identification of several ports for future cataloguers and wrote a manual on metadata keywords to ensure record uniformity.

Washington D.C. Metro

Responsibilities included:- prepared gallery between exhibitions;- maintained the gallery and black box theatre;- handled and reviewed portfolio submissions with the gallery manager;- updated membership and mailing databases;- handled new membership requests and renewals;- wrote press releases for upcoming exhibitions and plays;- assisted at openings and special events;- answered phone and emails;- wrote weekly e-newsletters; and- prepared special event mailings.

Master'S Degree, Information Studies

Specialisation in Records and Archives Management

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Photographic Preservation And Collections Management

Thesis: Conservation Survey, Condition Report and Collections Care Proposal for the WWI Portrait Collection at State Records of South.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communications: Visual Media, Literature

Activities and Societies: Phi Mu Fraternity, Staff Photographer for the Eagle, Lab Assistant at the School of Communication

Oceanography, Maritime Studies And Nautical Science

Class: C-192 Oceanographic Project: Atomospheric Impact on 19 Degree Water Sailed over 3,000 nautical miles aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer.