experience

Outreach and Instruction Librarian, Assistant Archivist (Diversity Fellow) August 2018 - August 2020

Cornell University Library

• Taught workshops and instruction sessions in both Mann Library’s Makerspace and classrooms with a focus on feminist pedagogy.

• Founded, planned, and facilitated the Women, Trans, Femme, and Non-binary Makers Night, a project introducing marginalized students to the Makerspace to build their maker skills through bi-weekly projects led in conjunction with cross-campus departmental collaborations and student organization involvement.

• Strengthened Cornell University Library’s commitment diversity, inclusion, and belonging (DIB) through participation on the library’s DIB Council.

• Co-founded, co-led, and planned the Equity and Empowerment Reading Group, a social justice reading group for librarians and library workers, to contribute to a creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace and work together with colleagues to better understand how librarians are impacted by structural inequities.

• Cataloged visual resources for the Human Sexuality Collection, such as those of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), to improve description and access for researchers.

• Developed policy and procedures for describing digital collections in alignment with Cornell University Library’s diversity, inclusion, and belonging vision.

• Co-authored a 40-page report as part of Rare and Manuscript Collections’ Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Task Force on best recommendations and practices for special collections.

• Created a social media strategy and plan that increased the Human Sexuality Collection’s Instagram following from 500 to 3,500+ followers.

• Arranged physical and digital collections in a manner that will facilitate research access and long-term preservation of the records, utilizing knowledge of the collection obtained through research and archival methodology. Performs extensive background research needed to understand the context of the archival collection.

• Prepared detailed finding aids for use by scholars, using current technology and descriptive standards and techniques, including Encoded Archival Description (EAD). Prepares scope and content notes, bibliographical and historical summaries, content listings, and indexes.

• Responded to in-person, e-mail, telephone, and mail reference inquiries, using broad and general knowledge of collections. Searches local and national databases for information pertaining to materials which may be complex due to language, format, subject, or publication pattern

• Fostered classroom and research use by Cornell faculty and students and others through tours, instruction sessions, and public presentations in consultation with subject experts.

Digitization Assistant May 2016 - May 2018

Hornbake Digitization Center, Hornbake Library

University of Maryland, College Park

• Conducted quality control inspections of metadata and digital collections.

• Operated sophisticated digitization equipment to fulfill textual, image, and audiovisual digitization requests.

• Digitized, created metadata records, and digital objects for the Special Collections Labor History exhibit.

• Created and augmented metadata records.

• Cataloged and described visual resources for Digital Collections.

• Digitized, created metadata records, and digital objects for collections of local family manuscripts.

• Work featured in several magazines, the University of Maryland’s blog, television documentaries, books, and museum exhibits.

Coordinator September 2017 – November 2017

Conference on Inclusion and Diversity in Library and Information Science (2017)

Information Policy and Access Center

University of Maryland, College Park

• Worked with a team of three organizers to plan and organize the conference.

• Arranged accommodations for people with disabilities and accessibility needs.

• Created and updated conference website to highlight presentations and speakers.

• Created guides for presentation moderators to facilitate sessions.

• Assisted with directing volunteers and task management.

• Worked with presenters on the day of the conference to ensure the event ran smoothly.

Radical Libraries, Archives and Museums Track Co-Coordinator September 2016 – June 2017

Allied Media Conference (2017)

Allied Media Project

• Served as a point person between presenters, coordinators, and the Allied Media Conference staff.

• Supported fundraising via social media outreach.

• Assisted with selecting workshops and presentations for the track.

Assistant Organizer September 2016 – November 2016

Conference on Inclusion and Diversity in Library and Information Science (2016)

Information Policy and Access Center

University of Maryland, College Park

• Worked with a team of four organizers to plan and organize the conference.

• Arranged accommodations for people with disabilities and access needs.

• Created and updated conference website to highlight presentations and speakers.

• Served as a liaison between presenters and conference chairs.

• Worked with presenters on the day of the conference to ensure the event ran smoothly.

• Created guides for presentation moderators to facilitate sessions.

• Assisted with directing volunteers and task management.

• Conducted social media outreach via Facebook and Twitter.

• Created a digital archive of social media posts related to the conference.

Personal Assistant to the Director of Research and Learning                                           September 2015 – November 2015

Research and Learning Department

McKeldin Library, University of Maryland Libraries

University of Maryland, College Park

• Created and edited LibGuides.

• Processed acquisitions.

• Weeded collections and selected new materials for subject librarians.

• Took confidential notes during department head meetings.

Library and Office Manager January 2011 – January 2015

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equity Center

University of Maryland, College Park

• Managed library collection of over 3,000 volumes.

• Connected campus community members with social, academic, and personal resources.

• Collaborated with other staff members to create office manuals and develop standard operating procedures.

• Trained student staff on library use and maintenance.

• Created social media, video, and print content to increase use of Center's resources.

• Planned, organized, and hosted annual events and programming such as Lavender Graduation and Lavender Convocation.