Professional
Experience
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Webmaster & Collections Access
Specialist. Nantucket Historical Association,
Nantucket, Massachusetts. February 2006
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Curator of Library & Archives. Nantucket
Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts.
March 2002 - January 2006. As director
of Nantucket Historical Association
Research Library, tasks include directing
staff and volunteers; managing book,
manuscript, and photograph collections,
including interactions with donors,
preserving materials, and facilitating
access through cataloguing and creating
finding aids; establishing a digitization
program of photograph collections and
making images available through the
web; and initiating special projects
with the community, including documenting
Nantucket cemeteries.
Special Collections Access Coordinator
and Web Specialist. Utah State University,
Merrill Library, Logan, Utah. February
2000 - February 2002. Performed
content analysis of special collections
materials; original and copy cataloguing
of all formats, including books, manuscripts,
state documents, video and sound recordings,
and artists' books, according to AACR2
and APPM standards on an integrated
library system (Horizon) and OCLC; design,
creation of, and maintenance of websites;
establishment and monitoring of workflow
and policies and procedures for Special
Collections cataloguing; and continuing
cleanup of old records and online authority
records.
African Diaspora Project Assistant.
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Library. Madison, Wisconsin. September
1999 - January 2000. Creation of a
database of digital images and
bibliographic records for periodicals of
African-Europeans; creation of websites
for this project and for the African-American Newspapers and Periodicals Index.
Digital Production
Assistant.
Memorial Library Digital Production
Facility, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
December 1998 - August 1999.
Duties included participating in projects
involving scanning materials for
preservation, promotion, and
access.
Graduate assistant.
Memorial Library Special Collections Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison. July 1998 - December 2000.
Duties included cataloguing rare books according to AACR2 standards; processing manuscript collections and preparing
inventories; providing access to holdings;
facilitating their use by readers, including students,
faculty, visiting scholars and the general public; processing new acquisitions and transfers and performing catalog
maintenance functions; assisting the department in collection development, management, preservation, and public
service; exercising responsibility for physical maintenance of the department and protection and preservation of its
holdings; creating and maintaining department webpages and virtual exhibits and assisting with constructing displays.
Web page designer.
Memorial Library Special Collections Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
February 1998 - present; intermittent. Project focused on creating a virtual exhibit of one of the three known copies of
a sixteenth-century alchemical text by
Heinrich Khunrath, Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae, solius verae (Hamburg, 1595); sponsored by a
grant from the Brittingham Foundation.
Conservation lab assistant.
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Conservation Lab, Madison, Wisconsin. September 1997 - January 1998. Assisting
in preservation activites such as encapsulating, creating case bindings, washing (dry and wet processes) documents,
rehousing, removing mold, surveying new collections.
Graphic artist and curatorial assistant.
La Crosse County Historical Society. La Crosse, Wisconsin. June 1996 - August 1997.
Position included overhauling computerized catalog of museum and archival collection, cataloguing artifacts and
documents using the American Museum Nomenclature system; assisting with displays;
using desk-top publishing to edit and create newsletter, and
creating brochures, flyers, mailings, etc.
Owner.
Natural Habitat Coffeehouse. Winona, Minnesota. August 1994 - June 1996
Craftsperson.
Wooster, Ohio. May 1992-June 1994. Worked in my own studio and in a local potter's studio.
Freelance archival work.
New Orleans, Louisiana. Nov 1991-May 1992 Projects included organizing the personal collection of Macky Shilstone.
Newcomb College Archivist.
Newcomb College Archives at the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women,
a department of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. July 1989-1991. Women's studies faculty.
This project was funded by a National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant, and
focused on creating the archives of the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial University, building a database, and
compiling a guide. The Newcomb Archives includes official college/university records; manuscript collections,
oral histories,
scrapbooks, and memorabilia of alumnae, faculty, and administrator; some pottery created at Newcomb College;
a large collection of photographs; and several collections related to the women's movement. The Center also
contains a special library focused on women's studies.
Information specialist.
Center for Business and Economics, University of Kentucky, Oct 1988-May 1989.
Assisting library users with reference.
Graduate Assistant.
Business Library, M.L. King Library. Aug 1988- Oct 1988
Teaching Assistant.
Department of Communications, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky,
Aug 1986-May 1988. Duties included full teaching and grading responsibilities for
several sections of Public Speaking, a lower-level
(mostly first-year students) course; and teaching and grading Interpersonal Communication, an upper-level
(mostly juniors) course.
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