Education
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
MLIS, Library & Information Science, December 2008
- Recipient, IMLS Fellowship in Digital Librarianship
- Poster Presentation, “Help Me Help You(Tube): Maximizing Collaborations to Meet New Collection Challenges”
Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
BA, Music, May 1998
Professional Experience
CATALOGING & METADATA SERVICES, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LIBRARIES, Tuscaloosa, AL
Metadata Librarian, July 2009 – present
DIGITAL LIBRARY SERVICES, THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES, Iowa City, IA
Digital Projects Librarian (half-time, temporary), January 2009 – June 2009
Graduate Fellow, August 2007 – December 2008
IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES, THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, Iowa City, IA
Processor (volunteer, part-time), April 2009 – June 2009
Other Work Experience
CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH CENTER, THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, Iowa City, IA
Project Assistant, May 2006 – August 2007
ACCOUNTEMPS, ROBERT HALF, INTERNATIONAL, Iowa City, IA
Accounting Clerk, February 2006 – May 2006
BROWSERS’ BOOK SHOP, Olympia, WA
Assistant Manager, May 2001 – October 2005
HARLEQUIN PRODUCTIONS, Olympia, WA
House Manager, November 2000 – August 2002
Proficiencies
XML: XML, XSLT, XPath, Schematron (XML validation and quality control), TEI (text encoding)
Metadata/Cataloging Standards: Dublin Core, MARC, METS, MODS, EAD, MIX, PREMIS
Controlled Vocabularies/Content Standards: Experience working with LCSH, LCTGM, LCNAF, AAT, TGN, AACR2, DACS and others.
Metadata/Cataloging Tools and Resources: MarcEdit, LC Cataloger’s Desktop, LC Classification Web, WebDewey
Content/Asset Management Systems: CONTENTdm, Archivists’ Toolkit, bepress, Drupal, Wordpress
Web Design: HTML, CSS
Programming/Database: Basic familiarity with Perl, PHP, SQL
Media Editing: Photoshop, Audacity, iMovie
Web 2.0/Social Networking: Experience working with RSS feeds, blogs, and a wide variety of social networking/bookmarking tools, including Delicious, Zotero, Diigo, Facebook, Twitter, Geni, and others.
Professional Development
Participant, METS Workshop: The Basics and Beyond, June 29 – July 2, 2010, Washington D.C.
Attendee, ALA Annual Conference, June 25-28, 2010, Washington D.C.
Presenter and Attendee, International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD), June 16-18, 2010, Austin, Texas
Attendee, Code4Lib, February 22-25, 2010, Asheville, North Carolina
Attendee, International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects (iPres), October, 5-6, 2009, San Francisco, California
Attendee, International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB), June 25-27, 2008, Toronto, Ontario
Attendee, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), May 26-30, 2008, Victoria, British Columbia
DHSI Workshop participant, “Transcribing and Describing Primary Sources using TEI-conformant XML”
Participant, Introduction to TEI Workshop, February 22-24, 2008, Champaign, Illinois
Attendee, Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, October 12-22, 2007, Chicago, Illinois
Participant, Iowa Library Association Conference, October 10-12, 2007, Coralville, Iowa
Publications
“Chronicling African American Women at the University of Iowa.” Microform and Imaging Review 38.4 (2009): 157-162.
“Repurposing ProQuest Metadata for Batch Ingesting into an Institutional Repository.” (with Joanna Lee) Code4Lib 7 (2009): n. pag. Web. 26 Jun. 2009.
Presentations
“Three Wheels on My Wagon But I’m Still Rolling Along: Lessons Learned from the Recent Campus Deployment of ETDs at The University of Alabama.” (with John Chambers) ETD 2010, Austin, TX, June 2010.
