Resume

Experience
Education
Coursework
Skills
Societies and Honors
Publications
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Current

Committee member
Crisis, Disaster, and Tragedy Response Working Group
Society of American Archivists
December 2020-present

  • Develop and maintain toolkit for cultural heritage professionals and communities documenting and preserving materials in times of crisis

Preservation consultant
November 2020-present

  • Prepare preservation assessments for institutions in California

Field bibliographer
Modern Language Association
Virtual
April 2020-present

  • Index citations for five book- and publishing-related scholarly journals in the MLA International Bibliography

Assistant appraiser
John V. Henley LLC
Portland, OR, USA
August 2017-present

  • Assistance with book and manuscript appraisals
  • Object handling and documentation during physical assessment
  • Client report research, editing, and bibliography
  • Observation, discussion, and other education in appraisal trade

Experience

Used book buyer

Powell’s City of Books
Portland, OR, USA
August 2018-March 2020

  • Purchased, priced, sorted, and processed used books for Powell’s stores and local warehouse inventory
  • Accurately and completely described and cataloged books in database and extended rare book notes
  • Provided prompt, courteous, engaged, and diplomatic customer service while maintaining security
  • Assisted customers in and monitored use of Rare Book Room
  • Assisted customers throughout sections, at information desks, and at checkout tills

Used book generalist
Powell’s City of Books
Portland, OR, USA
February 2018-August 2018

  • Purchased, priced, sorted, and processed used books for Powell’s stores and local warehouse inventory
  • Provided prompt, courteous, engaged, and diplomatic customer service while maintaining security
  • Assisted customers in and monitor use of Rare Book Room
  • Shelved books, maintained section organization, reported discrepancies, and collected resorts
  • Assisted customers throughout sections, at information desks, and at checkout tills
  • Pulled and processed books to fulfill online orders
  • Sorted incoming used books
  • Straightened book displays and wrote recommendations for merchandising
  • Trained new staff on primary inventory tasks
  • Participated in seasonal inventory cycle counts and stock culls
  • Assisted publicity team with in-store and off-site events

Fact-checker
Oregon Encyclopedia, Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR, USA
August 2017-July 2018

  • Fact-checked scholarly articles related to Oregon history

Inventory generalist
Powell’s City of Books
Portland, OR, USA
August 2016-February 2018

  • Shelved books, maintained section organization, reported discrepancies, and collected resorts
  • Assisted customers throughout sections, at information desks, and at checkout tills
  • Pulled books to fulfill online orders
  • Sorted incoming used books
  • Straightened book displays and wrote recommendations for merchandising
  • Trained new staff on primary inventory tasks
  • Participated in seasonal inventory cycle counts and stock culls
  • Assisted publicity team with in-store and off-site events

Library and collections consultant
Portland Japanese Garden
Portland, OR, USA
September 2015-May 2016

  • Researched, tested, and advised on collections management systems and cataloging
  • Created book inventory and cataloging procedures
  • Trained volunteers on book collection inventory and performed data quality control
  • Created Collections Management Policy for print, archives, photographs, and objects

Reference librarian
Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, MA, USA
December 2013-July 2015

  • Monitored reading room and addressed customers’ reference, research, and imaging requests
  • Assisted staff with curatorial research, exhibition, and circulation requests
  • Corrected and refined existing catalog records, particularly rare and Japanese print materials
  • Created, tested, and implemented digitization and metadata procedures
  • Performed acquisitions and collection development of print monographs and print and electronic journals and created acquisition records database
  • Planned conservation operations, rehoused materials, and processed archives as needed
  • Helped create social media strategy, policy, and content
  • Conducted tours and presentations for internal and external guests
  • Coordinated Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship program

Reference librarian assistant
Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, MA, USA
January 2011-November 2013

  • Assisted with patron and curatorial research requests
  • Archives processing, cataloging, material conservation, and digital imaging as needed
  • Administered and supervised volunteers for 2012 Art Museum Libraries Symposium
  • Prepared for building renovation, collection reclassification, and retrospective conversion
  • Documented and helped monitor collections move to temporary location

Dean’s research assistant
GSLIS, Simmons College
Boston, MA, USA
September 2010-January 2012

  • Provided research assistance and transcription for publication on history of preservation
  • Created lecture presentations

Archives intern
Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, MA, USA
September 2010-January 2012

  • Physically processed collection of 19th-century shipmaster and merchant’s papers
  • Created folder-level finding aid
  • Tagged associated digital objects with appropriate metadata

Library clerk
Boston Architectural College
Boston, MA, USA
March 2010-January 2011

  • Provided reference and circulation service for students and faculty

Conservation intern
Mary Baker Eddy Library
October 2009-January 2011

  • Conserved and repaired rare books and special collections materials at the MBE and the Christian Science Monitor offices

Visual resources assistant
Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Cambridge, MA, USA
April 2010-July 2010

  • Created metadata using controlled vocabularies for Boston-area maps from the 1700s to the present
  • Added metadata to records in Harvard’s OLIVIA system

Archives intern
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Jamaica Plain, MA, USA
October 2009-May 2010

  • Appraised and physically processed plant sale records collection
  • Compiled metadata and created item-level finding aid
  • Encoded finding aid in EAD for retrieval via Harvard’s OASIS search system

Circulation clerk
Des Moines Public Library
Des Moines, IA, USA
January 2006-August 2009

  • Performed public customer service, including materials circulation and information assistance
  • Assisted with complex patron situations, including language and culture barriers, disabilities, and pecuniary disputes
  • Assisted with additional department tasks, including book repair, federal depository document processing, audio-visual material processing, printer maintenance, and supplies management
  • Initiated and completed collaboration with technical services for reviewing and correcting bibliographic records for biography and foreign language collections (8,500 items)

Master stagehand
Iowa State Center, Iowa State University
Ames, IA, USA
August 2001-December 2008

  • Performed stage construction and dismantling, backstage crew work, security, and other facilities duties as needed for athletic, theatrical, and other events

Data consultant
Meredith Corporation
Des Moines, IA, USA
July 2007-August 2008

  • Added metadata to digital images for easier access in searching

Front desk clerk
Embassy Suites
Des Moines, IA, USA
September 2005-March 2006

  • Checked guests in and out and coordinated their needs during their visits

Education

Master of Science in Library and Information Science
Archives management concentration
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College
Boston, MA, USA
2012

Study abroad
British Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS, USA and London, England, United Kingdom
Summer 2010

Bachelor of Arts
Political science, international studies; French
Iowa State University
Ames, IA, USA
2005

Study abroad
Liberal arts
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland
Spring 2005

High school diploma
Ankeny High School
Ankeny, IA, USA
2001

Selected Coursework

Graduate

  • Evaluation of Information Services
  • Reference and Information Services
  • Information Organization
  • Preservation Management in Libraries and Archives
  • Archival Access and Use
  • Establishing Archives and Manuscript Programs
  • Art Documentation
  • Managing Records in Electronic Environments
  • Technology for Information Professionals
  • Advanced Descriptive Cataloging
  • Rare Books and Special Collections Librarianship
  • Concepts in Cultural Heritage Informatics
  • British Libraries and Information Centers

Undergraduate and secondary

  • Archaeology for International Students
  • Introduction to Biological Anthropology and Archaeology
  • Introduction to Architecture
  • History of Design
  • Principles of Statistics
  • AutoCAD

Continuing education

Skills

Librarianship

Cataloging, reference, circulation, book/paper conservation, acquisitions and collection development, collections management, project management, archives processing, finding aid creation and encoding, strategic planning, policymaking, records management, fact-checking, genealogy

Bookselling

Book buying and appraisal, data entry and cataloging, shelving, sorting, Internet order pulling, cycle counts, stock culls, merchandising, cash register operation, retail customer service, reader advisory

Standards and vocabularies

AACR2, RDA, DACS, LCRI, DCRM, Descriptive Cataloging Guidelines for Pre-Meiji Japanese Books, MARC, EAD, LCC, DDC, SuDoc, custom classifications, LCSH/FAST, TGM, RBMS vocabularies, Getty thesauri, Dublin Core, MODS, PREMIS, HTML, CSS, XML

Hardware, software, and processes

ExLibris Voyager, Sirsi-Dynix Horizon, Aeon, OCLC Connexion, PastPerfect, MuseumPlus, CONTENTdm, databases, 90 wpm, Mac OS X, Windows, iOS, mobile devices, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, digital imaging, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, oXygen XML editor, Prezi, wikis, WordPress

Languages

native English; advanced French; bibliographic Japanese, Chinese; beginning Swedish

Societies and Honors

Publications

Conversant blog, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum

All pages archived from the original blog, which has been deactivated.

Photography and Digital Images