Experience

Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Reader Services Librarian

  • Mar 2015 - Present

  • Instruct faculty, staff, students, fellows and alums, in orientations and research workshops• Liaise with faculty on course reserves and library services for classes, such as special collections usage• Manage the reference desk schedule and reference statistics• Supervise and train student workers in LC classification schemes, re-shelving, circulation duties and special projects• Promote, schedule and facilitate one-on-one research appointments with students• Provide tours of the library and school to prospective students and schedule all appointments with outside visitors to the library• Process all incoming and outgoing interlibrary loans for students and faculty through OCLC Worldshare• Coordinate periodical subscriptions including new additions, binding and renewals• Participate in the collection development committee for books, periodicals and databases • Oversee the cataloging of the auction catalog collection• Manage special collections of approximately 650 volumes, including access and usage of the collection in classes for faculty • Curate themes for the library exhibition case



Christie's

• United Kingdom
• Retail Luxury Goods and Jewelry
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Vice President, Librarian

  • Dec 2008 - Mar 2015

  • Provided reference services for all specialist departments, client services and outside researchers• Taught research classes on various topics, including provenance and art research, general library usage and market/business research to staff and interns• Enlisted speakers and scheduled presentations for staff in specialty research topics• Managed electronic resources subscriptions, monitored usage, resolved technical problems; set up trial subscriptions and assessed new databases• Liaised with vendor and IT on OPAC upgrades and customization• Advised on digitization projects within the company• Processed and cataloged auction catalogs, serials and books• Managed binding for the library’s auction catalogs and departmental books



School of Visual Arts

• Weekend/Evening Reference Librarian

  • Sep 2008 - May 2011

  •Assisted SVA students, faculty and alumni with a range of research requests utilizing the monograph, periodical, electronic resource, image and film collections.•Completed various book ordering and cataloguing projects as needed



Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Photo Archivist

  • Nov 2007 - Nov 2008

  Worked on a project in conjunction with an exhibition at the Brooklyn Historical Society.•Assessed, re-housed, arranged and described 35 linear feet of photographs (approx. 50,000) in various formats•Executed archival policy and incoming material procedures•Created finding aids for the collections•Pulled images from collection for an exhibition at the Brooklyn Historical Society



The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 700 & Above Employee

• Library Associate, Watson and Cloisters Libraries

  • Sep 2005 - Nov 2007

  Cloisters Library and Archive:•Provided reference services to patrons •Arranged, described and re-housed archival material of a former Cloisters curator•Produced digital images and scanned photographic albums for preservation purposes •Copy catalogued monographs in multiple languages•Completed a reclassification project of 4,500 monographs•Paged, shelved and checked out materials to patrons•Prepared bindery shipmentsWatson Library:•Worked in the technical services department with copy-cataloging responsibilities