ARCHIVAL EXPERIENCE
Contract Project Archivist • 02/22/2017 - present
Kenamore & Klinkow, LLC: Morton Windsor Salt Historic Archives
Volunteer Archivist & Co-Chair of Archive Committee • 2003 – 06/30/2015
Ruthie and Bill Katz Archives at North Shore Congregation Israel, Glencoe, IL
Contract Project Archivist in the Legal Department • 04/2011 – 05/26/2011
Rexam Beverage Can Company, Chicago, IL
Contract Project Archivist • 08/2010 – 06/29/2011
SDI International Corporation: Motorola, Inc. Legacy Archives, Schaumburg, IL
Institutional Archivist Consultant • 07/06/2010 – 07/12/2011
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
Archivist/Educator Intern 87-hours • Spring, 2010
Media Burn, Chicago, IL
Archivist Intern 43-hours • Fall, 2009
Robert M. Myers Archives at Society of the Divine Word, Techny, IL
Kenamore & Klinkow, LLC: Morton Windsor Salt Historic Archives
- Process, weed and catalog materials.
- Digitize material to be placed in SharePoint.
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
- (Once A Star).
- 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
- 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.
