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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Gaithersburg, Md, Us

Herndon, Va, Us

-Administered and expanded upon secure FSI wide SharePoint site, resulting in significant increase in use and Knowledge Management tool availability-Improved Knowledge Management and Information best practices across a large international governmental organization-Implemented Knowledge Management technologies -Wrote extensive guides and SOP's to improve KM and information best practices-Created tools for the development of an organizational Taxonomy, thereby increasing the searchability and discoverability of information-Oversaw large cross component digitization and archival products, aiding the retrieval of information in a hybrid work environment including the training of digitization staff-Collaborated across component and agency to improve KM practices

Washington, Dc, Us

National Agricultural Library of the USDA ● Evaluated Metadata from the Directory of Open Access Journals for inclusion in the Agricola database● Updating Titles in the Unpublished Repository as per vendor Acquisitions. ● Developing knowledge of OAI-PMH for establishing a routine for retrieval of DOAJ metadata ● Assessment of Serials per year yield of article metadata added to Unpublished repository and accuracy of said data

Silver Spring, Md, Us

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

In my time with DCPL, I have worked at Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library, Georgetown Neighborhood Library, and Shaw/Watha T. Daniel Neighborhood Library.Since taking this position I have focused on public interaction with a patron base as diverse as can be imagined, public outreach, programming, and I work in adult reference, circulation services, and even children's services.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

I was brought on for a contract with the International Monetary Fund as a temporary replacement for the Inter-library Loan Librarian while she was out of the country. During this time I worked with OCLC Worldshare software to support a large base of researchers in centers domestic and international through procuring through inter library loans those papers, books,and other research materials they required.

For this internship I was brought in for two primary tasks. The first of these involved creating a moving plan for the library's main open stacks in order to facilitate efficient use of space in an institution with the unique collection restrictions of a state library. Secondly I was brought in to identify and evaluate Pennsylvania German materials that may be suitable for digitization. However I ended up preforming no less than 7 tasks. These tasks include digitization of images for a PA history timeline, editing digitized images for Optimal Character Recognition, Producing PA state documents to support a Pennsylvania Council of Humanities speaker on Phillis Wheatley, assisting with various tasks in the rare book section, and assisting patrons with research

During this period I was gaining experience with the Library Science Collection in Kutztown University's Rohrbach library. My tasks included assisting patrons find materials, shelf reading for correctness, and page functions such as book shelving, scanning returned materials into the ILS and collecting use statistics.I was personally responsible for the mythology and folklore section.

In this project I inventoried a large donation from Pennsylvania German Scholar Francis Kline. This collection was extremely diverse, ranging from Rare Book and Manuscript materials, to artifacts and diverse media. I also insisted in the installation of folk art pieces within a museum setting. I also preformed basic conservation tasks on an 18th century German architecture collection. Lastly I worked in collaboration with the head of the center to develop and implement a professionalization project with the Center's vault.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

At the end of my Sophomore year I was lucky enough to be invited to the Government Publications and Serials division of the Library of Congress. During this summer internship program I worked with two collections. The first of these I worked with was the American Comics book collection; which is the world's largest collection of such materials. I also processed materials from the FACA Collection. FACA stands for Federal Advisory Commission Act. I also job shadowed librarians in nine different divisions.

During my Highschool I had the wonderful opportunity to intern in the Hershey High School Library. While my tasks primarily consisted of page duties such as book shelving, shelf reading, and inventory. I also assisted patrons with finding materials within the catalog and dewey decimal system. In addition, The Head librarian and Assistant librarian familiarized me with the library catalog, limited collection development, and library databases

Master’S Degree, Library And Information Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Library And Information Science

Transfer, Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities