William Mclean Email & Phone Number

Durham, NC, US

Durham, North Carolina

• Recalled, sorted, organized, indexed, rehoused, and gained intellectual control of departmental print materials backlog
• Developed a robust backlog database in Microsoft Access searchable to the title level, denoting donor, curator, collecting center, acquisition date, language, and processing notes to enable efficient reporting.
• Managed the tracking, arrival, ingest, and bibliographic review of incoming print and archival purchases from a large annual acquisition budget
• Designed, implemented, and maintain a custom scripted automated tracking systems in Excel to track arrivals, identify issues, and communicate all steps in the order arrival process to collection development.
• Maintained departmental statistics, coordinating quarterly departmental metrics and ARL reports
• Provided reading room reference and instruction service, welcoming researchers, registering new users, circulating materials, routing requests, ensuring the proper handling and security of collections

• Responsible for the metadata creation for the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection, an online resource in CONTENTdm, containing 1,000 volumes and 300,000 pages of core documents in North Carolina.
• Developed and applied a custom metadata scheme allowing for advanced searching and browsing at the collection, title, and volume level, in response to solicited user needs
• Implemented page level tagging for bibliographic information, textual and graphic content, with complex descriptive and archival metadata, generating 21,000,000 cells of metadata
• Engineered a custom metadata creation tool to expedite processing, ensure consistency, permit archival storage of metadata
• Identified workflow inefficiencies and developed custom scripts, functions and macros to expedite metadata creation, increasing efficiency and weekly processing output
• Prepared metadata dictionary in compliance with NCECHO and Library metadata standards

• Facilitated 35 five-day non-credit courses taught by an international roster of specialists in the history of the book, typography, illustration, bookbinding, descriptive bibliography, rare book librarianship.
• Employed excellent communication skills to welcome and assist over 300 professional students, including rare book librarians and curators, catalogers, digital librarians, academics, antiquarian booksellers.
• Participated in routine shelf checks, performed basic conservation of materials as needed, and responded to emergencies in accordance with disaster planning measures
• Monitored the use, security, and proper handling of Special Collections materials at Rare Book School, University of Virginia, Walters Art Museum, Folger Shakespeare Library, and Library of Congress
• Oversaw routine safe transport, storage and inventory of rare and valuable materials from stacks to classrooms

Baltimore, Maryland

• Assisted scholars and imaging scientists in final stages of the Archimedes Palimpsest digitization project, recovering lost texts by Archimedes, Hyperides, and an unknown commentary on Aristotle
• Edited The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity’s Greatest Scientist, by William Noel and Reviel Netz, one month prior to publication
• Expedited the preparation of a successful NEH digital preservation grant for the creation of full digital surrogates of the Walters’ Islamic manuscripts holdings, converting Museum’s entire bibliographic database into.
• Collaborated in creation of post-1500 deluxe editions catalog; prepared exhibition labels
• Assisted scholars in research and handling of materials, including selections from over 900 illuminated manuscripts, ranging from 300 BC to the 19th century, 1,250 incunabula, and post-1500 rare books
• Translated articles in German, French, Italian, and Spanish into English

Research Triangle Park, NC

• Provided data migration, cleansing, and conversion services to school districts across the country as part of a small team operating as a subcontractor to the world’s largest publisher of instructional resources and.

• Digitized professor’s extensive slide collection and course materials, manipulating and optimizing images with editing software for quality control, fidelity to the original, and OCR usability

Master'S Degree, Library And Information Science, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, North Carolina Library Association.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Art History

Activities and Societies: Art History Department Student Liaison, Volunteer at the Ackland Art Museum

Education record

Activities and Societies: Prefect The ESU Secondary School Exchange is a merit-based scholarship providing full tuition, room and board.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Noland Fellowship, Elected first student facilitator of faculty run Leadership Development Program, Master of.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Honor Council