Teresa Westfall Email & Phone Number

Bloomington, Indiana, United States

Completed creation of a collection inventory which was digitized using PastPerfect. Created rotation schedule for items on display and provide new interpretation for docent tour guides. Ongoing update of collections care such as physical storage space and methods, damage prevention, inventory dignostics for display potential, curating new display techniques, methods, and content, and creating care plan for the house itself including a collaboration with the Meterology Department at WKU to better understand how the weather affects the building.

Curating new and existing exhibits. Exhibit creation, design, and implementation. Incoming loan and donation management. Accessioning collection into PastPerfect. Oversee archivist personnel and student interns in museum.

International Bluegrass Music Museum

Accessioning collection into PastPerfect. Exhibit creation, design, and implementation. Incoming loan tasks such as picking up and packing items from locations and coordinating paperwork. Research library expansion and management. Ongoing update of collections care such as physical storage space and methods, damage prevention, inventory diagnostics for display potential, and creating care plans for the collections items which include photographs, reeled, vinyl, and compact disc collections, posters, musical instruments, and other paper-based items such as magazines, journals, newspapers, and newsletters.

Prepaing objects for approval, photography, accessioning and cataloguing new acquisitions, preparing objects for travel

Master Of Folk Studies, Folklore Studies

Presenter at American Folklore Society annual conference 2014.

English, English Language And Literature/Letters

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English