• Manage the Kinkaid School archival collection, including accessioning over fifty new collection donations, processing, and housing collection materials• Create descriptive finding aids for over a thousand linear feet of new and existing unprocessed or undescribed collections• Provide reference and research assistance to school faculty, staff, and administration, as well as students on an individual, group, and classroom basis• Provide instruction in archival research and use of primary sources in the research process• Promote awareness of the Kinkaid Archives to the Kinkaid community through school activities, alumni events, and special events (tours, long-term exhibition installations, pop-up exhibitions, online exhibitions, and special displays)• Digitization of archival, student, and faculty material • Manage the transition from the information management system (IMS) Archon to the new IMS ArchivesSpace• Assist in collection development for the general library collection

Manage the AHA! website by sharing news, job and internship postings, upcoming events, and professional development opportunities. Create special pages for upcoming events such as the Houston Archives Fair and the annual October Archives Month. Write and send out a monthly newsletter with relevant and interesting archives related news stories, resources, and notices about upcoming events.

Help conceptualize themes and topics for quarterly meetings and special sessions. Assists in identifying and contacting potential speakers. Create promotional material for quarterly meetings and special sessions.

• Responsible for arranging, describing, and cataloging born-digital, digital, and analog records and images, including slides, negatives, contact sheets, photoprints, documents, publications, removable media, artifacts, and ephemera• Provide reference assistance and research to MFAH staff and researchers using archival records, public records, and databases• Collaborate with Digital Archivist to establish new standards and methods for digital preservation• Create digital and analog artifacts for the remote, contract archivist• Add new materials to existing collections, including digital materials, single-item accessions, Rights & Reproductions related materials, and materials submitted as part of the Records Management system• Oversee Archives volunteers• Update guides to accessing collection materials including Finding Aids and shelf maps for multiple facilities

Managed the production and publication of the first two issues of "SNAPshots", the quarterly publication of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) roundtable Students and New Archival Professionals (SNAP). Duties included creating the initial newsletter layout, recruiting volunteer writering and editorial staff, selecting regular and featured content, directing writing and editorial assignments, and publishing the completed issues and any necessary corrections.

Established formal procedures for the Society of Folk Dance Historians Archives as part of the UT School of Information Professional Experience Project (Capstone); revamped the Society’s website for improved usability and accessibility; created a Microsoft Access database to provide box- and folder-level access to the Society’s archival paper holdings, and the detailed information from which to create holding guides for user access; created a processing guide to direct future work on the Society’s archival holdings; defined future work opportunities for the Society, including future Capstone projects, volunteer opportunities, and student group assignments for School of Information classes

Processed historical music recordings on various disc formats; managed donations of music recordings in multiple formats for disposition; coordinated shipments of Houston Symphony Orchestra recordings for digitization

Aided in completion of a detailed survey of the Center’s administrative Holding Records,determined the contents of each file and its corresponding finding aid, and recorded allrelevant information in a shared, central database; created new DACS-compliant finding aids, digital and analog, using XML followingEAD guidelines

Retrieved and returned materials for archival holdings for research use; created new archival documents from selected print sources for permanent storage with the Center’s Vertical Files collection.

Researched and made personal contact with a specified list of mathematics graduates to solicit material donations for a new collection; set-up and recorded progress in a series oflinked databases.

Worked as part of a team processing and preparing invoices for payment and maintained the Accounts Payable records room. Additionally inventoried the backlog of materials there were to be sent to an off-site storage facility and became the primary contact with the storage company for arranging for the transfer of materials back on-site and for materials to be made accessible off-site for the yearly audit. Coordinated all communication between the auditors and the Accounts Payable supervisor.

Assisted directly in writing new departmental policies and procedures including supervision tasks, student worker training, and day-to-day functions of the Periodicals department.

Assisted library patrons with research needs.

Maintained the periodicals and book processing collection in accordance with library standards, including the current and back-issue periodicals collection and all new library collection book purchases.

Maintained the periodicals in accordance with library standards, including the current and back-issue periodicals collection.