WHERE I'VE BEEN

The Asset Resource Center (ARC) Librarian’s main function was the management of the MCS cross-departmental DAM for creative and corporate assets. The DAM served as a single source of truth for the rights management and storage of licensed assets, in-house produced deliverables, and a library of reusable photographic stock images, video b-roll, and internally-approved illustrations and design templates. 

Duties included, but were not limited to, DAM advocacy and promotion, taxonomy remediation, vendor communication, asset organization and migration, departmental workflow creation assistance, and multi-level user training and troubleshooting.

CJH illuminates Jewish history, culture, and heritage by providing a collaborative home to five partner archival organizations and providing them with the following shared services: A publicly-accessible reading room and genealogical discovery facility, metadata support for their online collaborative catalogue, and in-house digitization, conservation, and archival processing (physical, A/V, and born digital).

As a CJH archivist, I physically processed both small family collections and large institutional collections, digitally captured collections using multiple photographic methods, and assisted researchers using those collections in the Center’s Lillian Goldman Reading Room. I also created guidelines, content lists, and posting plans to increase social media advocacy for the building’s collections, which included the creation of over 30 libguides representing the archival subjects, collections, and services available for remote research.

AMNH Field Book Project

The Field Book Project was part of a Leon Levy-funded initiative to catalogue, in detail, the processed primary source field books, notes, and logs associated with the multi-departmental, AMNH-led Whitney South Seas and Archbold Expeditions. 

Along with cataloguing, duties included creating and evolving project workflows, setting up productivity timelines, and working closely with other institutional departments such as Library Cataloguing, Archives, Ornithology, and Mammalogy for facilitating best practices and creating the most useful deliverables.

Darwin Manuscripts Project

The DMP was founded in 2003 at Drew University to create Charles Darwin's Scientific Manuscripts, an online historical and textual edition of the large body of manuscripts that document Charles Darwin's life's work as a scientist. 

As part of the Summer transcription team, I aided the project through direct transcription, XML mark-up, and encouraged a social media promotion plan for future processed sections.

William T. Hornaday scrapbooks

 William Temple Hornaday was an American zoologist, conservationist, taxidermist, and author. He served as the first director of the New York Zoological Park (known today as the Bronx Zoo) and he was a pioneer in the early wildlife conservation movement in the US.

As part of a grant-funded project to increase accessibility to Hornaday's recently-digitized scrapbooks and journals, I assisted in metadata creation, historical research, and in-depth blog essays for integration into an Omeka deliverable.

The NYPL Archives and Manuscripts Department works tirelessly to provide access to the consistently-growing backlog of unprocessed archival collections across all major library branches. Here I was able to hone my processing skills, learn more about cross-departmental planning and workflows, and receive hands-on training in reference services.

Barnes and Noble Collectibles INC was created to descriptively catalogue, price, and sell thousands of recently acquired rare book titles that were in need of proper distribution outside of the normal retail environment. 

Cataloguing Assistant duties mainly centered around the proper handling, pricing, researching, description, and sales of nearly two thousand used and rare book titles. Responsibilities also crossed over into inventory database maintenance, customer service concerns, company and item promotion through various social media outlets, and processing weekly and monthly financial reports for corporate review.