• Establish and lead a team of library/information professionals to provide services for physical preservation and conservation, reprographic imaging and reformatting, digital collections management, and digital preservation

• Administered complex library-wide comprehensive preservation program including:

• Physical preservation and conservation of both circulating and special collections materials
• Disaster planning and salvage response
• Preventive conservation (environmental monitoring/management, integrated pest management, other strategic physical measures)
• Cross-team collaboration/instruction regarding handling guidelines, Preservation workflows, etc.

• Learn from a master papermaker the finer points of the handmade processes with regard to creating production-grade paper in Eastern, Western, and experimental styles utilizing a wide array of fibers.

• Help with any "oddball stuff" that needs to be done with regard to production papermaking, workshops/events, and general facility upkeep

• Active participant and demonstrator at the annual Kozo harvest

• Organization of Board documentation, taking meeting minutes, participation in Governance Committee, strategic planning committee, and committee on the Next Chapter project of founder transition

• Lead and directed the efforts in researching, cataloging, digitizing, preserving, and disseminating HMRC's extensive (4M+) photographic collections

• Assisted with HMRC's programming efforts by curating exhibits, conducting departmental tours, assisting with programs and outreach efforts, and representing the library and HMRC at public events

• Coordinated and perform specialized, photography-based reference and reproduction (digital and print) services to the general public in-person and electronically

• Supervised two FTE's and manage their duties within the imaging lab and photography archive

• Somit Preservation Internship

• Worked with the Conservation Unit to design, perform, and analyze results of a large-scale, random sample condition survey of the Rare Book Collection of approximately 200,000 printed volumes held in the Special Collections Research Center

• The information gathered in this survey will aid in determining the overall health of this collection, planning future conservation projects, and fundraising for the Library’s conservation program

• Provided consultant work regarding archives/preservation, data preservation/curation, and digitization
• Digitized photographic and flat art materials using Digital Transitions reprographic equipment and CaptureOne software
• Made all necessary adjustments (crop, color correct, exposure etc.) to ensure accurate digital representation of images

• Provided input regarding the reclamation of an array of artifacts from a disaster-level environment

• Trained volunteers on proper handling and cleaning of the different objects found inside

• Learn more about the project

•Read a humbling recognition of my efforts

• Digitized vital records from legal library for SharePoint document management system
• Quality assurance of scanning and optical character recognition
• Applied appropriate descriptive metadata

• Led the creation process of a digital finding aid using CollectiveAccess
• Serials circulation: check-in and route serials to Shedd employees using Horizon ILS
• Copy and original cataloging of rare/archival materials as well as the circulating collection in OCLC
• Archival processing: rehousing, arrangement, and description

• Transferred accession ledger (1929-present) from handwritten copy to Access database
• Cross referenced original Kardex catalog records to ensure the accuracy of record entry

• Acted as liaison between users and IT support staff; participated in DAM system maintenance and testing
• Assisted in taxonomy creation and documentation of global market items
• Created links to indicate relationships between assets
• Ensured long-term usability of assets through quality metadata creation and application
• Maintained usage rights metadata throughout asset lifecycle

• Processed interlibrary loan requests for the CRL consortium
• Performed article-level retrieval from a collection of over five million items
• Light preservation work on decaying and at-risk materials
• Applied descriptive metadata to resources with a firm grasp of bibliographic information/enumeration

• Performed catalog record corrections and physical processing of new materials for serials collections using Millennium