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MERCK CREATIVE STUDIOS
The Asset Resource Librarian’s main function is the management of the MCS cross-departmental DAM for creative and corporate assets. Duties include, but are not limited to, DAM advocacy and promotion, taxonomy remediation, vendor communication, workflow creation, and user training.
CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY
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.
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
AMNH Field Book Project
Part of a Leon Levy-funded project 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. Duties included creating initial 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.
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.
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY (BRONX ZOO)
Metadata creation and preparation of recently-digitized Bronx Zoo founder William T. Hornaday scrapbooks for integration into Omeka.
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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.
Here I learned descriptive cataloguing for rare books from the ground up. Duties included the proper handling, price/ content researching, description, and sales of nearly two thousand used and rare book titles for the Rare and Collectibles arm of Barnes and Noble, Inc. Also responsible for occasional database maintenance, dealing with customer concerns, promotion through various social media outlets, and processing weekly and monthly financial reports.