The American Legion National Headquarters Library & Museum (Indianapolis, Indiana)
Collection Services Librarian, February 2017 to present
Metadata & Cataloging Librarian, December 2009-January 2017

• Collect, process and describe archival transfers of digital records and media.
• Catalog and prepare books, pamphlets, audio and video for access.
• Implemented and manage a digital asset management system, DSpace, including software upgrades and feature development to maintain a responsive and secure system.
• Developed and maintain 22 digital collections of born-digital and digitized assets to serve both internal and external users.
• Ensure interoperability and future migration of metadata through implementation of standards: Dublin Core, DACS, and development of local controlled vocabularies.
• Develop, implement, and revise digital collection policies and procedure.
• Managed the digitization of core resources to provide access to more than 186,000 pages of historical publications.
• Developed, and implemented a web archiving program with a quality assurance workflow to collect high quality captures of organizational websites.
• Monitor digital storage environment to develop storage strategies to secure and maximize the existing storage capacity.
• Collaborate with archivist to initiate archives outreach activities with key stakeholders including training sessions and on-boarding of new employees.
• Assess and manage the implementation of collaborative technology solutions and other strategies for improving work processes and facilitating access to collections.

Helmke Library, Purdue University Fort Wayne (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
Visiting Librarian, Reference & Instructional Services, July 2008-June 2009
Liaison to History, Political Science; Government Documents Coordinator

• Provided general in-person research assistance with additional reference assistance by instant messaging, phone, and email.
• Research consultations with public patrons, faculty, and students in subject areas.
• Partnered with teaching faculty to develop and present numerous library instruction sessions.
• Designed teaching evaluation component for the library instruction sessions in collaboration with assessment coordinator.
• Partnered with teaching faculty to provide information services within the course management system.
• Initiated and updated online course guides to further incorporate media technology such as screenshots and screencast tutorials.
• Streamlined library operations by proposing a project to increase the ease of updates and the flexibility in the display of directory information.
• Designed and implemented an innovation plan for the virtual government information site, to focus on service and to highlight the teaching tools available.
• Contributor and leader in the development of digital collections related to liaison areas.

Presentations and Publications

“User-Centered Designs for Library Government Information Websites.” Indiana Libraries 29.1 (2010): 3-10.

“Collecting Dynamic Local Government Information: The Development of the Allen County Code Digital Collection .” Indiana Libraries 29.1 (2010): 90-93.

Indiana University Librarians’ Day, May 2009
Poster Session: Got Jing?: The Use of Freely Available Low Threshold Screen Capturing Software in Reference and Instruction

Library Training Sessions at Walter E. Helmke Library,

• Presenter: Effective Use of Technology in Library Instruction Sessions, January 2009
• Co-presenting: A Unique American Record: the Library of Congress American Memory Archives, November 2008

LAUNC–CH (Librarian's Association at UNC-Chapel Hill) Annual Research Forum, May 2008

• Co-presenting: Challenged Books: A study on the presence or absence of controversial materials in North Carolina public library collections