ARCHIVAL EXPERIENCE

Part-time Archivist • 10/16/2018 – present
Japanese American Service Committee, Chicago, IL
  • Accessioning donations, process, weed and catalog materials to make accessible for researchers.
  • Records Management of the organizational records.
  • Support research needs of the executive director, staff and international and external clientele. 
  • Working with specialized applications: Eloquent and Microsoft Office, Pages and Numbers.

Contract Project Archivist • 04/18/2018 - 11/05/2018
Kenamore & Klinkow, LLC: American College of Healthcare Executives
  • Develop records groups, series and create order to the historical materials.
  • Process, weed and catalog materials.

Contract Project Archivist • 02/22/2017 - 06/22/2018
Kenamore & Klinkow, LLC:  Morton Windsor Salt Historic Archives
  • Process, weed and catalog materials.
  • Digitize material to be placed in SharePoint.

Archivist Consultant at  • 2017 - present
Temple Sholom Chicago, IL 
  • Developed the plan to create their Institutional Archive and guiding them through the process.
  • Wrote the archival collection development policies, procedures and the records retention policy.

Contract Archivist • 07/01/2015 - present
Volunteer Archivist & Co-Chair of Archive Committee • 2003 – 06/30/2015 
Ruthie and Bill Katz Archives at North Shore Congregation Israel, Glencoe, IL            
  • Established and currently manage an institutional archive of 97 years of congregational materials.
  • Wrote the archival collection development policies and procedures.
  • Recruit and manage volunteers, budget, promote and solicit archival donations.
  • Processing the collection by re-establishing order, weeding, re-housing, and creating the taxonomy.
  • Created an online internal collection development tool used for ready reference using iWeb.
  • Utilizing Facebook as an outreach tool that chronicles the congregations history.
  • Support research needs of the executive director, staff and international and external clientele. 
  • Provide outreach and awareness of the archive and history of the congregation by creating exhibitions, leading presentations to groups, writing articles for (internal and external) publications. 
  • Document activities and events through photography and video; handle all digital conversions. 
  • Live video streaming of life cycle events and services to reaching out to a world wide audience.  
  • Created a digital library of Confirmation photographs and programs to provide greater access. See Paper.
  • Work with specialized applications: CONTENTdm, PhotoShop, Aperture, Photo Mechanic, Microsoft Office, Acrobat Pro, InDesign, FileMaker Pro, Audacity, iLife, and iWorks.

Contract Project Archivist in the Legal Department • 04/2011 – 05/26/2011
Rexam Beverage Can Company, Chicago, IL
  • Appraisal of legal documents: weeded, arranged, created descriptive inventory records for off-site storage for accessible retrieval. 
  • Evaluated patents for historical materials that will be retained from outdated patents.
  • Scanned documents for electronic records retrieval. 
  • Utilized specialized applications: Infokeeper, SentryFile, and the Kyocera Scanner

Contract Project Archivist • 08/2010 – 06/29/2011
SDI International Corporation: Motorola, Inc. Legacy Archives, Schaumburg, IL
  • Appraisal of acquisitions and extensive video and image collections: processed, weeded, arranged, re-housed, described and created accession and location records. 
  • Developed taxonomy for a special collection. 
  • Worked with Oracle database: MIMSY

Institutional Archivist Consultant • 07/06/2010 – 07/12/2011
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
  • Established an institutional archive including writing policies, procedures and taxonomy.
  • Appraised 30 years of documentation, processed, weeded, arranged, re-housed, described and created accession and location records. 
  • Consulted and trained staff on managing and growth of an institutional archive.
  • Trained museum staff on managing an institutional archive. 
  • Worked with museum digital asset management system: KE-Emu

Archivist/Educator Intern 87-hours • Spring, 2010 
Media Burn, Chicago, IL             
  • Developed business and marketing plan for a “Participatory Online Secure Educational User Community” in the form of a Wiki for the K-12 and Higher Education market with special emphasis on the use of Web 2.0 principles of collaboration, including social media tools for marketing strategy: See business plan for the MBEC.
  • Professionally digitized and cataloged video then posted online for greater access.
  • Utilized specialized applications: iMAP, Digital Rapids Stream, Alfresco and Tyfresco.

Archivist Intern 43-hours • Fall, 2009
Robert M. Myers Archives at Society of the Divine Word, Techny, IL, Pages, Numbers
  • Processed the Fr. Edward J. Norton, SVD Collection by weeding, arranging and describing personal papers, non-print media and correspondence. 
  • Created finding aid to increase access to materials.
  • Created a presentation and outline for the collection.
  • Digitized audio recordings to determine enduring value for the collection.
  • Utilized specialized applications: Excel, Spin Doctor, Keynote, and PhotoShop.
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