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“Canada Unspooled – Genealogical Research in Canada.” Lecture presented at annual conference of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies in July 2006. Slideshow at
http://www.slideshare.net/GenLady23/canada-unspooled-genealogy-research-howto-presentation
“How to Use D2L.” Student webinar demonstrating how to maximize use of the SLIS learning management system. Presented live four times, and recorded for ongoing use. Summer 2011.
D2L_Student_Workshop.mp4
“How to Improve D2L pages with CSS and Styles.” Webinar presented to SLIS faculty July 23, 2011.
D2L_Pages_Workshop - Faculty.mp4
I am assisting one of their department in implementing a new records management system. My responsibilities include monitoring and conforming metadata to standards to facilitate migration of records, as well as establishing document types and their definitions to enable appropriate document placement within the system. I also am authoring guidance documents for staff training.
My responsibilities include adding and managing data in a SharePoint database, including metadata and specific information. I managed and maintained the offsite storage database, including aligning metadata, and processing newly-added records. I assisted with managing records stored in paper form, and coordinating with departments for that process. I wrote procedures for various departmental processes,
I headed a project to review and process records cartons which, over the years, were not assigned barcodes and/or not entered into the tracking system ("Versatile" by Zasio). This involved researching box numbers (if they existed on the boxes), and/or researching box contents, to determine if the boxes were in the system at all, or needed to be added. Sometimes boxes had one number on the box, but were in the system under a different number. When appropriate I added thebos information to the database, so records retention would be applied, and when appropriate, the records wwould be disposed of. If I felt the records held potential historical value, I alerted the City Archivist, and upon his approval, processed those records archivally (acid-free materials, etc.).
I also adapted large files for departmental distribution or internet/website access, and registered transfer lists of boxes sent to off-site storage, into Versatile.
I organized the historical records of the Anderson Graduate School of Management, founded in 1935. My work included making sense of the records created by many offices and and at different times, in ways that would facilitate access and use by future researchers. I used Archivists' Toolkit software to create or update finding aids for eighteen different collections, which will eventually be accessible via the Online Archives of California.
I performed a variety of tasks and projects, including researching legal citations relevant to records retention, then organizing the printed citations into accessible systems. The Records Department used that information to confirm or adapt their retention schedules, to then maintain compliance with current regulations and organizational preferences. I assisted in several different phrases of this process, including creating an index of the citations, then recording which citations were specifically relevant. I also assisted in reprocessing a system-wide Disposal Report into individual departmental reports, for distribution.
My work also included archival work, such as organizing several different groups of records ("collections") into a more logical and accessible order, registering the data and metadata into archival software ("Archivists' Toolkit"). I then adding additional metadata about the collection in general to complete research tools known as "Finding Aids." Finding aids assist potential researchers in determining if the records will be of use to them, and if the collection has the information they need.
San Jose State University, May 2012
In partial completion of the requirements for my MLIS, I created an e-Portfolio explicating how I'd met the many learning outcomes required for the degree. You can review it here. Please note that I've redacted personal names and specific documents for privacy reasons when appropriate.
I processed portions of the Herald-Examiner Photo Collection, sorting/arranging the photos as directed, selecting images for digitization, and researching the historical background of those images for cataloguing purposes.
This course provided an overview of the information professions and an introduction to library and information science as an academic and research discipline. It introduced us to basic concepts including the history of information and libraries, ethical considerations, and the social context in which information is created, stored, organized and used.
For this course, I wrote a paper comparing the National Archives of the United States (NARA) with Library and Archives Canada (LAC). You may download and read it here. Please remember that it is copyright protected.
This particular course focused not only on the organization and management of libraries and information centers, but many different types of businesses. We investigated many different styles and theories of management, collaboration, and organizational culture.
This course focused on different website and Web 2.0 technologies, including modular Web design, HTML and XHTML, CSS, web-based forms, some PHP and Javascript, SSI, and including images and graphics. We also worked with mash-ups, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, and some XML.
Class workk was done in direct code without over-the-counter software, and our final project was to create a working website with specific content elements.
For this course, we learned how to use the Dialog, Nexis, and Factiva subscription databases, with a focus on understanding how to construct, then modify searches to achieve the most relevant results, with an emphasis on acceptable levels of precision and recall. The course content included: "Content, search language, and syntax; Effective search strategies and techniques; The value and role of fee-based database aggregators in obtaining precision results quickly and efficiently; How knowledge of database aggregator systems increases the quality of Internet research."
This course taught us how to catalog in several different schema, how to differentiate individual authors, subjects, and titles.
This course provided an overview of the different ways to manage archival materials, the theory, use, and creation of finding aids, appriaisal, acquisition, and accession. We explored how online archives provide access to their collections, both by browsing and by searching. The course presented the different types of archives, and how collection development policies define and guide acquisitions.
This course reviewed and explained many of the theories and practices of records management, with an emphasis on paper records.
This course delved into the complexities of the many systems to manage content, records, or enterprise information, the schema and metadata standards which may be used to do so, and the issues related to compliance, records retention, destruction, and privacy. We explored aspects such as preserving email messages, social media, and data stored on outside media such as thumbdrives, etc.
For this course, my final research paper investigated “The challenges and barriers, and some possible solutions, to successfully implementing electronic records retention policies and schedules, and disposition plans.”
This course reviewed many of the theories and practices used to determine how to preserve all types of archival materials, including paper, books, film, sound tape, and others. We analyzed how to best prevent damage by anticipatory planning, how to create functional disaster plans, and how to plan building and room design to minimize damage. The course also analyzed the potential risk to digital materials and data, and methods to minimize damage to those materials.
This course studied many of the technologies useful to digitize a variety of records, materials, and objects, and the best practices for doing so. We also studied the various aspects of copyright as it relates to digitizing materials, analyzed an actual digital collection, and created a small digital collection using ContentDM software.
This course explored the many ways to do successful historical research, including using reference tools such as bibliographies, primary sources and secondary sources. We explored how best to use a wide range of both online and physical research sources, including popular search engines, subscription databases, and physical repositories, then wrote a research proposal based on a specific topic, and suitable for a dissertation thesis, exhibit, or website. We also reviewed how to identify and apply ethical concerns connected to using human research participants.
My research proposal was to be a museum exhibit and linked website,discussing whether the economic boom in California subsequent to World War II, would have occurred regardless of the war, or whether the war was transformative to that result.
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