Steven Essig Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, NY

Write letters attesting to the professional and/or academic credentials of overseas professionals seeking employment in the United States. Research and analyze the nature of "specialty occupations" and the educational and occupational background needed to perform them effectively.

New York, NY

• Catalog and describe vintage opera and classical music memorabilia sold on the Tamino Autographs website, continually adding new listings to this e-commerce site
• Add metadata and key words/tags to make digitized items searchable
• Digitize these materials utilizing Faststone, Photoshop photo editing
• Research, identify and then label or tag items of uncertain provenance
• Contribute articles to the Tamino Autographs blog
• Conserve and preserve delicate historical material including occasional matting and framing

New York, New York

• Create/edit Bibliography of recent publications from YU Faculty for annual Faculty Recognition celebrations
• Judged student research essays submitted to YU Library for "Undergraduate Research Prize"
• Instruct students and faculty in the use of print and online library resources: including the Library's online Catalog databases, books, journals and electronic reserves
• Assist students doing research for assignments, helping them locate viable and available resources
• Explain the use of citation tools
• Help students and faculty with Microsoft Word and other writing and editing formats

New York, NY

• Advised Director of Merchandising on Music CD, DVD and Bluray purchases for both shop and web - including new releases and older catalog titles as well as suggested deletions
• Tagged and described music product on the Metropolitan Opera Shop website - emphasizing opera titles and performers featured in current or upcoming Met seasons
• Supervised all music merchandising displays in the Opera Shop spotlighting featured titles and artists
• Trained sales associates on proper merchandising/music display and selling techniques
• Cataloging and reference resource helping patrons identify and locate recorded performances in multiple formats, using online searches to answer email or personal patron inquiries
• Updated in-house music database in preperation for installation of Celerant POS inventory system

New York, NY Chapter

Brooklyn, New York And New York, New York

• Organized and inventoried collection of over one thousand print titles donated to the library for possible acquisition
• Filed updates, supplements and pocket parts for treatises, reporters and loose-leaf publications
• Assisted court employees and public patrons in locating library materials
• Updated and organized collection of both the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bankruptcy Court Libraries

New York, NY

• Provided one-on-one information literacy instruction to students and other patrons
• Taught classroom sessions on library research databases and other online resources
• Cataloged new acquisitions, eBooks and reserves with SirsiDynix Symphony ILS

• Provide in-person legal reference/public services at NY County Public Access Law Library
• Deliver telephone reference services on New York State Court hotline
• Answer on-line legal reference questions on “Questionpoint Global Knowledge Base”

• Consulted with the United Nations Archives division organizing processing and evaluating extremely sensitive confidential information on UN global projects
• Composed detailed series descriptions and notes for various “Record Groups” on internal UN database

• Contributed articles and analysis to Criminal Law Library Blog: http://www.criminallawlibraryblog.com
• Indexed Appellate Division criminal trial transcript records in New York State’s Unified Court System database
• Performed collection management of out-of-state Statue print collections

• Worked with the History subject specialist on evaluation and weeding of the history reference collection

• Created reports on North American Library and Information Science curriculums, university marketing, and state credentialing requirements
• Researched issues of information organization and linguistic issues in cataloging for Dr. Bella Weinberg’s published scholarship

• Processed three Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) collections and composed online finding aids: http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/reed.html http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/alba_brooks.html.

• Answered reference questions sent in to the IPL by patrons across the globe as part of a class project in St. John’s University course on “Advanced Reference Sources and Services”

• Wrote nine entries on various aspects of Chicago history: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/tc/xtf/servlet/org.cdlib.xtf.crossQuery.CrossQuery?text=Steven+Essig&text-join=or
• Researched and fact-checked entries submitted by other contributors

• Researched the history of slavery/emancipation in the British Caribbean and the United States for Professor Thomas C.Holt, locating primary and secondary material in RLIN, OCLC, AHL and Chicago-area archives
• Compiled literature summaries on British West Indies for Societies After Slavery: A Selected AnnotatedBibliography of Printed Sources on Cuba, Brazil, British Colonial Africa, South America by FrederickCooper, Thomas.

• Courses: “Late Twentieth Century U.S History,” “America in Western Civilization,” “Race and Racism in U.S History”
• Graded and evaluated papers and exams
• Led discussion sections and advised students on appropriate sources and research topics
• Assisted in designing written course assignments

Ma, Abd, Social Sciences And History

Mls, Library And Information Science

Ba Magna Cum Laude, History

Graduated with distinction in History award