• Manage and maintain District/Consortia's Integrated Library System (ILS) including hardware, software, firewalls, and network• Monitor and troubleshoot problems between staff and patrons to Innovative/Clarivate• Participate in District/Consortia meetings and activities• Analyze current hardware status and current trends for long and short term planning• Liaise with technology support vendors• Create and/or maintain system, training and district/consortium documentation• Maintains system, training and organizational documentation• Supports member library staff with training and technology assistance• Organize, Analyze, and Manage library data for Annual Reports, projects, and general maintenance of library ILS• Participate in Virtual Reference Shifts ~4 hours weekly via HSLC/Power Library, answering questions locally, nationally, and occasionally internationally

Research, Content Writing, Blogging

Looking for writing opportunities. Looking for freelance, short-term, or long-term projects.

Create projects in Wrike per Product Managers' requests. Handle the Information Management for items, products, and resources.Deactivate all products from the Product Information Management system. Send weekly Web Upload file with all Deactivations, New and Revised Products, and Resources to Sales Teams, Product Managers, Product Engineers, and Communications Managers. Create/Edit Taxonomies and Metadata for Products/Items in the Product Information Management system.

Research and locate articles for Geology Department.Inventory archival materials regarding geology data. Includes Maps, correspondence, graphs, and other special collections.Manage on-site library.Work with vendors to maintain online subscriptions.Maintain working relationships with academic libraries to facilitate ILL.Other special projects as assigned.

Design customer-based catalogs, and provide support for all aspects EBSCO's custom institution databases, including OPACs and Institutional Repositories. Offer continued support through design processes, development and QA status. Troubleshoot questions, issues or changes made to the catalogs after release.Maintain documentation on custom institution databases support processesCorrelate search terms for easy catalog access Review and work with libraries' MARC records, metadata and taxonomies."Utility-Person"​//"Jill-of-all-trades" for Catalog Team, I have spearheaded many special projects, and oversaw the review processes for all catalogs up for renewal through early 2015.

Public Services/ReferenceCollection Management/Development Information Literacy -Programming Technology Services and TroubleshootingAlso, as an Archivst, I,Identified collections in Archives for processing/cataloging and digitizationRecords Management and Records RetentionCoordinated and supervised Archives internships through Simmons College program, including attending Internship Fair, and submitting description and paperwork.Curated permanent and rotating collections for the Special Exhibits Display

I work security at a premier art museum in Boston, MA. Responsibilities include:Crowd-control.Ensuring museum policies are followed.Maintaining a safe environment for museum patrons and staff.Respond to patrons' questions about collection.Working special events.

Processed Betty Taymor collection, political activist and founder of CWPPP. Cataloging included scanning materials, writing up short descriptions for the website, as well as the Finding Aid. Also reaching out to Archive colleagues about future housing for collection.Cataloged books by entering information into RefWorks, and assigning LoC numbers by use of WorldCat.Special projects as needed, and general library technology work.

Searched and catalogued previously uncatalogued books by Library of Congress Catalogue numbers, required original cataloging. Grant Writing. Provided reference help to both Boston University and Boston community. Also wrote semi-regular blog entries, highlighting books in the collection.

Processed two photograph collections relating to Helen Keller, and her Perkins classmates, Anne Sullivan Macy, and Anne's biographer, Nella Braddy Henney. Organized, labelled, and scanned all photographs in collections, also wrote the metadata for all photographs. Uploaded onto Flickr, and made all necessary edits. Wrote two separate Finding Aids, one for Helen Keller collection and one for Nella Braddy Henney collection, both using EAD guidelines.http://www.flickr.com/photos/perkinsarchive/collections/72157627310117390/

Very similar to library work, only I'm selling things (occasionally.) I shelve all items in the stores, including, though not limited to, reference and business management materials, travel books, history and biographies, and fiction/literature. Specifically focus on magazines/periodicals and Paperchase. Am also continually straightening sections, as well as helping in special projects in re-shelving and alphabetizing sections. I also provide reference/customer service to customers, in answering general questions, and helping them find materials, as well as making suggestions. Encourage customers to sign up for the rewards and rewards plus programs, as well to participate in other special store offers, like Coffee Bean Friday and book drives.Was an integral part in the sales team which closed the store during the liquidation process, continuing to provide high quality experience throughout.

Archives Volunteer. Consulted with Congregational Library while overseeing the Pleasant Street Church archives project. Provided assistance to the Chicago Theological Seminary Project, including foldering items and identifying materials. Also handled rare books during this project, often dusting and cleaning the pages.

Tagged and cataloged born-digital photograph collection of Historic Watertown by use of Library of Congress Subject Headings and original cataloging. Goal is to create an easy-to-search collection, which continues to be web accessible. Wrote the metadata (Dublin Core) for photographs.Also scanned, photoshopped, and transcribed 21 of the Convers Francis sermons. I participated in NEA2010 Fall Conference's Poster Session, by presenting on the current status of the Digital Photo Project, and the future of photograph digitization for the WFPL.

Created archives, while also implementing records management system. Wrote DACS finding aid. Received crash course in donor relations, including organizing the ultimate destinations of collection and coordinating with multiple people.The Finding Aid I wrote is available both online at http://www.congregationallibrary.org/resources/efg/efg-apscc, as well as via Word Document.

Interned October 2009-December 2009, and worked as a Summer Library Assistant May 2010-August 2010.Processed several collections, including Blu Greenberg collection, post-1948 Israel collection, and the Judaica Dept. Opus Collection. Overlaid OCLC records, wrote MARC records, funded incoming shipments and readied outgoing shipments, and created itemized lists for projects. Searched library and bibliographic records.

Processed the John C. Osgood papers. Created series list, finding aid and wrote the MARC record.