Experience

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

• Canada
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Library Technician

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  Conducted, supervised, and trained staff in a large scale inventory project; identified and corrected catalogue errors in the rare book and modern collectionsTrained students on the handling of rare books to ensure their preservationSuggested new rare book acquisitionsContributed to a metadata application profile for Omeka item recordsTrained staff on creating rare book records and digital exhibits in Omeka based catalogueCreated a new tagging system in Omeka and accompanying dictionaryLiaised with scholars working on rare book projects and recommended rare books to themInstructed students on the relevance of rare books to encourage their useTrained students on the handling of rare books to ensure their preservationSuggested new rare book acquisitionsNoted any books that needed conservation to ensure the safety of the collection Show less

• Rare Book and Digitization Assistant

  • May 2018 - Sep 2019

  • Created metadata for the online rare book catalogue in Omeka and Zotero for the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies• Contributed to a metadata application profile for Omeka item records• Trained staff on creating rare book records and digital exhibits in Omeka based catalogue• Collaborated with staff and students on rare book exhibitions• Conducted reference interviews with students and researchers to find rare books• Created a new tagging system in Omeka and accompanying dictionary• Digitized rare book pages and used Photoshop to bolster the online catalogue in Omeka• Liaised with scholars working on rare book projects and recommended rare books to them• Instructed students on the relevance of rare books to encourage their use• Trained students on the handling of rare books to ensure their preservation• Suggested new rare book acquisitions• Noted any books that needed conservation to ensure the safety of the collection• Managed of social media platforms to engage the wider community with the rare book collection Show less



University of Toronto - University of St. Michael's College

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Rare Book Cataloguer - Practicum

  • May 2019 - Jul 2019

  • Received training in RDA, FRBR, FRAD and MARC • Created derived cataloguing records of rare books according to RDA standards in a MARC encoding environment in SirsiDynix • Created authority records for entities associated with each book • Adjusted records created with AACR2 to comply with RDA • Determined copy specific information that may be useful to researchers • Established further subject analysis terms and subject access genre/form fields according to the RBMS controlled vocabulary • Gave classification numbers to books according to the Library of Congress • Improved best practices contribution to the rare book cataloguing training manual • Invited to participate in departmental meeting which determined priorities and responsibilities Show less



University of Toronto

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• 2019 Book History and Print Culture Colloquium Organizer

  • May 2018 - Mar 2019

  Duties included: liaison with presenters, promotion on social media, creation of promotional materials, and fundraising The colloquium topic was “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous Texts: Controversies in Reading, Writing, Editing, and Printing”. The keynote address was given by David Fernández (Rare Book Librarian, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library) on “De monstris: Monsters and the Wonders of Human Imagination” based on his widely popular exhibit at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Duties included: liaison with presenters, promotion on social media, creation of promotional materials, and fundraising The colloquium topic was “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous Texts: Controversies in Reading, Writing, Editing, and Printing”. The keynote address was given by David Fernández (Rare Book Librarian, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library) on “De monstris: Monsters and the Wonders of Human Imagination” based on his widely popular exhibit at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.



Wilfrid Laurier University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2016 - Aug 2018

  - Transcription of a 15th century Latin text for its later compilation on the CLIO Project Website- Scanning an 18th century Latin translation of John Chrysostom’s 88 homilies using a Bookeye 4 Scanner v2 in order to use the digitized images for the CLIO Project website- Comparing medieval Latin and Greek texts to ensure proper segmentation and appearance on the CLIO Project website

• Instructional Assistant

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2016

  For the Fall 2015 semester I worked as an Instructional Assistant for the Introductory Latin course. My duties included teaching a tutorial class in which I answered questions and reinforced the teachings from that week, holding office hours to offer one-on-one help for students, and administering and marking weekly quizzes for which I had to keep accurate records.