working
june 2011 to present: the drill archives internship at the university archives within the david m. rubenstein rare book & manuscript library at duke university. working under the supervision of kim sims, the technical services archivist. primary focus is technical processing of archival collections and generating accession records for incoming acquisitions. co-curated “from campus to cockpit: duke during world war ii” which was on view until late january 2012. current projects include processing the ella fountain pratt papers and developing a LibGuide for visual materials in the University Archives holdings. other projects include establishing/maintaining social media, surveying collection control files, and reference/research cross-training. the internship is funded by the isobel craven drill endowment for the university archives.
july 2011 to present: volunteer archivist at the sallie bingham center for women’s history and culture within the david m. rubenstein rare book & manuscript library at duke university. working on assessing, organizing, rehousing, and updating finding aids for various and sundry zine collections including the dwayne dixon zine collection and the bingham center women’s zine collection.
august 2005 to may 2011: office and operations manager for the illustration program, parsons the new school for design. duties included: handling all day-to-day clerical, operational, & facilities-based issues, establishing/maintaining the program’s social media presence via WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, & Flickr, hiring, training, & supervising student workers, helping track budgetary expenditures & develop curricular schedules, coordinating and overseeing programmatic event planning including symposia, guest lectures, workshops.
january 2011 to may 2011: processing archivist internship in the museum archives at the metropolitan museum of art, under the supervision of managing archivist james moske. projects included: performing physical processing, rehousing, & arrangement for collections that include 19th c. financial records, implementing MPLP & using archivists’ toolkit to create accession & resource records for unprocessed collections and using an excel database to generate an inventory of historical records held by the exhibitions office.
june 2010 to may 2011: processing archivist internship in the fales library and special collections at new york university under the supervision of senior archivist lisa darms. projects included: processing of multiple archival collections including rehousing, arrangement, simple conservation treatments, cataloging of media, & creation of finding aids using archivists’ toolkit and working with collections—like the guerrilla girls archive & several accessions in the riot grrrl collection—that include a variety of materials including photography, film, ephemera, & other media.
recent collections processed
[in progress] ella fountain pratt papers, duke university archives
[in progress] the bingham center women’s zine collection, sallie bingham center at duke university
dwayne dixon zine collection, sallie bingham center at duke university [expanded/updated]
campus club records, duke university archives
museum exhibitions–1870-2011, metropolitan museum of art archives [contributor]
split britches archive, fales library and special collections at nyu
the outpunk archive, fales library and special collections at nyu
the molly neuman riot grrrl collection, fales library and special collections at nyu
the becca albee riot grrrl collection, fales library and special collections at nyu
the guerrilla girls archive, fales library and special collections at nyu [finding aid publication pending]
professional service
[upcoming] 2012: participant in the ARLIS/NA career mentoring program
[upcoming] 2012: post-production assistant/transcriber for the SAA oral history project
spring 2010-spring 2012: co-coordinator of art library students and new professionals (ArLiSNAP)
current membership
american library association
art libraries society of north america–southeast chapter
art libraries society of north america
art library students and new professionals (ArLiSNAP)
mid-atlantic regional archives conference
society of american archivists
society of north carolina archivists
visual resources association
past membership
archivists round table
art libraries society of north america–new york chapter
new england archivists
new york library association
pratt school of information and library science student association (SILSSA)
special libraries association student group @ pratt
special libraries association-new york chapter
professional recognition
spring 2011: marsha trimble/marac meeting travel scholarship from MARAC.
spring 2010: celine palatsky travel award from ARLIS/NY.
conference and workshop attendance
[upcoming] Society of North Carolina Archivists annual conference, march 2012
SAA conference in chicago, il, august 2011 –> lucky, lucky recipient of a spontaneous scholarship via Kate Theimer and the wonderful ArchivesNext community
MARAC spring conference in alexandria, pa, may 2011. –> presented “art, activism, & grrrl power: archiving contemporary feminism” as part of the student paper presentation session
new roles for research libraries: digital curation for preservation webinar hosted by ARL, april 2011.
ARLIS/NA + VRA joint spring conference in minneapolis, mn, march 2011.
archivists’ toolkit fundamentals workshop, pratt institute, new york, ny, march 2011.
MARAC fall conference in harrisburg, pa, november 2010.
contemporary artists books conference in long island city, ny, november 2010.
SAA 2010 in washington d.c., august 2010.
ARLIS/NA 2010 in boston, ma, april 2010.
“digital archives: navigating the legal shoals” at columbia university law, april 2010.