Experience

Boston College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head, Metadata Creation & Management & Special Collections Technical Services

  • Dec 2020 - Present

  • Lead 13 diverse team members creating, editing and integrating metadata for over 2 million library resources • Drive strategic direction for metadata creation and management for Boston College Libraries, focusing on usability and findability for a diverse user group including university community members and global independent scholars • Oversee departmental knowledge repository, ensuring consistent policy and user discovery of library resources, relying on newly forged collaborative workplace practices with public-facing stakeholders to ensure policy and descriptive content consistently exceeds user needs • Administer conservation and collections maintenance for special collections, including offsite management, evaluation, and space planning. Show less



John J. Burns Library, Boston College

• Greater Boston Area

• Head, Special Collections Collections Technical Services

  • Feb 2017 - Dec 2020

  • Supervise 4 team members creating metadata for rare and unique materials, collections management, space planning • Create extensive policy documents and training guides, ensuring discoverability of resources across internal and external stakeholders • Deployed resource usage statistics to determine best candidates for offsite relocation, developed machine automated metadata review to ensure long-term, accurate discovery and retrieval, resulting in of 3 years of growth space for incoming materials Show less



Harry Ransom Center

• Austin, Texas Area

• Authorities & Maintenance Coordinator; Cataloger

  • Mar 2014 - Feb 2017



The Ohio State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Special Collections Cataloging Coordinator

  • Jan 2013 - Feb 2014



Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

• Project Cataloger

  • Sep 2011 - Dec 2012

  Create original catalog and complex catalog records using OCLC and local database. Create original catalog and complex catalog records using OCLC and local database.



Stark Center for Physical Culture

• Austin, Texas

• Processing Volunteer

  • Dec 2010 - Dec 2012



Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

• Library Intern

  • Apr 2011 - Sep 2011

  Perform copy cataloging and comparative bibliography to improve collection development. Perform copy cataloging and comparative bibliography to improve collection development.