LIBRARIES

Book shelves in library
Watercolor painting of individuals sitting at a table writing on paper.
Man in outdoor pavilion looking at newspapers spread on a table.
Brochures on display on counter.
Individual sifting rectangular sheet in rectangular pan with water.
Female across table from male demonstrating activity.
Brochures displayed on counter.
Female smiling and looking at photos.
Individual holding white paper while dipping into pan.
Folded paper on counter.
Bookshelves in library
Stack of multicolored rolled fabric on floor.
Watercolor of long table with items displayed.
Two females posing for photo and smiling.
Two men posing for photo and smiling.

Vestavia Hills Library in the Forest, AL, 2017-2018
Medium-sized public library
Teen Clerk

  • Assisted with daily management of the Teen Department including circulation, holds, acquisitions, weeding, cataloging, processing, social media, Overdrive digital collection development, and patron services
  • Updated the Reader Advisory print materials by grade levels and by subject matter
  • Planned creative educational programs for teens including zines-making, letterpress, blackout poetry, recycled mason bee houses, paper marbling, book binding, dyeing from natural materials, friendship bracelet weaving, paper airplane engineering, and writing workshops
  • Founded and curated the Treehouse Reading Series for visiting and local poets as a collaborative program between Teen and Adult Departments
  • Certified National Passport Acceptance Agent
  • PD: Overdrive Ordering, National Passport Acceptance Agent Training; Lynda.com: Body Language for Leaders, The Neuroscience of Learning, Digital Citizenship, Queue Up: Your Path to Somewhere Meaningful, Understanding Copyright: A Deeper Dive, Internal Interviewing, Clifton Strengths
Individual holding painting of goldfish in water.
Bags of popcorn on table.
Students sitting at tables.
Large dry leaf with holes
Photo of article in magazine by Jessica Smith.
Child watching individual demonstrate activity on table.
Students watching individual demonstrate on table.
Student watching teacher cut items on table.
Image of article in magazine.
Brochures on display.
Cards spread out on table.
Students sitting at table with laptop in the middle.
Images of photos.
Images of photos
White paper with thin brown items spread out.

Indian Springs School, Birmingham, AL, 2011-2017
Private boarding school library, grades 8-12
Librarian and English Teacher

  • Managed the library (acquisitions, archives, original and copy cataloging, circulation, deaccession, instruction, inventory, research, patron services, processing, shelving)
  • Increased the average age of the collection from 1977 to 1993 through aggressive deaccession and sophisticated acquisition and collection development
  • Increased circulation by over 400%
  • Developed special collections in non-English languages to support the Languages Department
  • Managed two full-time staff and three part-time student employees
  • Managed the student-run Writing Center (student staff training and management)
  • Initiated and schematized digitization of the School Archives
  • Initiated “Research across the Curriculum”
  • Integrated information literacy instruction across the curriculum, 8-12th grades
  • Researched, proposed and implemented technology initiatives
  • Founded and curated the Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series
  • Utilized social media to promote the library holdings, archives, and events
  • Advised the student newspaper, The Woodward Post (2015-2017) and student clubs including Radio, Dance, and Conlang (Constructed Languages); faculty advisor to Amnesty International
  • Coach for the Poetry Out Loud team
  • Advised small groups of seniors as Faculty Advisor
  • Assisted with Schoolwide Summer Reading (2012-16)
  • Served on the Scholarly Development Committee (2016-2017)
  • Taught English classes (see “Courses” list)
  • Taught summer Book Arts electives
  • PD: CPR/AED Certification, Mandatory Reporting, Teens and Social Media, Curriculum Mapping, Differentiated Assessment, Understanding By Design, Student Safety and Security, Formative Assessment, EdTech Teacher Summit, Power Searching with Google, TED Talks for Education, etc.

ARCHIVES

Internet Archive (archive.org), New York, NY, 2008
Digital Archivist

  • Scanned books from the New York Public Library for Internet Archive
  • Post-production quality management in customized design software ​
Image of archive book scanner.
Picture of James Joyce's Crayon Covered manuscript.

State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 1999-2010
Project Manager, Buffalo Arts Digital Library, 2010 (Slides)

  • Led a team of six to gather media and permissions from local Buffalo artists
  • Conceived and implemented viral marketing campaign
  • Wrote and presented grant proposals
  • Managed submissions requests, rejections, and related correspondence
  • Determined appropriate metadata schema; collected and entered metadata
  • Utilized and customized Greenstone software

Archivist, Poetry/Rare Books Collection, 2000-2002

  • Prepared a true-color version of James Joyce’s Ulysses manuscript for “Digital Ulysses: An Annotated Hypertext and Manuscript Archive”
  • Assisted with final XML editing for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn CD-ROM Edition
  • Archived rare materials including the Kenneth Rexroth, Clark Coolidge, Edward Curtis, John Logan, and Jonathan Williams collections
  • Assisted patrons with access to closed stacks

Archivist, Poetics Program, Summer 2000

  • Prepared poet Charles Bernstein’s correspondence for the archive at Mandeville Special Collections Library at UC-San Diego
  • Used Eudora to sort, print, index and file extensive email correspondence and manuscripts ​​
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