Steve Duckworth Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon, United States

• responsible for the day-to-day management and long-term development of the archives program, including accessioning, arrangement, description, preservation, and storage of collections
• seeks new ways to build collections, enhance access, and engage audiences
• identifies, appraises, and acquires archives, manuscripts, university publications, and artifacts in all formats
• develops collection management data, EAD finding aids, and other access tools
• teaches classes, workshops, and instructional sessions; assists researchers through reference and instruction; and conducts exhibits, tours, special events, and other outreach activities
• consults with the university community on records management policy and practices

Portland, Oregon Area

• Teach as part of an MLIS degree program: curate course content, provide weekly instruction via online format, monitor discussion boards and respond as needed, develop and grade assignments fitting with the overall.

• Teach as part of Master of Information degree program: curate course content, provide weekly instruction via online format, monitor discussion boards and respond as needed, develop and grade assignments fitting with.

Gainesville, Florida Area

• physically and intellectually arranged archival materials in diverse collection genres, subject areas, and formats (including born digital)
• employed standards to create descriptive metadata and produce finding aids and catalog records
• managed descriptive and other collection information using Archivists' Toolkit
• researched holdings, produced processing plans, established processing priorities in consultation with collection managers and other personnel, and established efficient workflows and schedules to reduce the backlog of.
• participated in appraisal decisions, completed preservation assessments, and made digitization recommendations

Anchorage, Alaska

• arranged and described the records of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve according to professional standards
• streamlined proposed processing plan and updated arrangement of records to reflect current archival methods
• combined previously processed and unprocessed materials into one cohesive collection
• answered reference requests relating to the collection

Greater Philadelphia Area

• created and implemented a collections survey to discover digital media within current holdings
• conducted institutional functional analysis to aid in strengthening the archives’ holdings
• assisted with outreach and marketing

Greater Philadelphia Area

• minimally processed collections of 19th–21st century archival materials using principles of MPLP
• wrote EAD finding aids in Archivists’ Toolkit for previously inaccessible collections
• processed collections at repositories of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), includes work completed at Temple University’s Special Collections Research Center, Drexel University.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• processed archival collections
• arranged and described materials
• created finding aids in accordance with DACS for improved access

Philadelphia, PA

• cataloged audio recordings from the collection in Filemaker Pro
• assisted with shelf arrangement

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

• reorganized complete library holdings, creating a computerized database of materials and filing them in an easily accessible way
• copied, arranged, edited, and distributed music to orchestra members
• purchased or rented music as needed
• assisted Music Director, Personnel Manager, Head Librarian, and Education Director

Master Of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.), Archives/Archival Administration

Master Of Music, Music Performance

Bachelor Of Music, Music Performance