Library & Archival Work


Here is some information about my work experience in academic libraries and archives, including some of the collections I have worked on and the skills I have developed in these roles. You can read more about these projects in my Resume or C.V..

UCSB Library, Special Research Collections


Discography of American Historical Recordings
DAHR
  • online 78rpm database with 98,000+ recordings digitized and streaming
  • physical preservation; audio digitization; "traffic control"; content management
  • ingesting assets for post-custodial partnerships, e.g. Dust-to-Digital release
  • contributed a new ArcGIS Online app for the DAHR Places: Recording Locations explorer (more info in Map Gallery)
adp.library.ucsb.edu
John Steinbeck Soundscriber Discs
Mss 164
  • Soundscriber dictation discs recorded by John Steinbeck in the 1940s
  • item-level inventory
  • audio digitization
OAC finding aid Aviary collection
UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive
  • online wax cylinder database with 15,000+ recordings digitized and streaming
  • improving bespoke FileMaker Pro solution for database of recordings
  • content management; metadata remediation
cylinders.library.ucsb.edu
Leon & Googie René Recordings
PA Mss 248
  • lacquer and vinyl records created by R&B artists Leon and Googie René and their contemporaries, 1924-1993
  • item-level inventory
  • format research, some personnel research
OAC finding aid
Eula Beal Recordings
PA Mss 262
  • lacquer records created in the 1940s by contralto Eula Beal
  • item-level inventory
OAC finding aid
Dame Judith Anderson Papers
Series XII, Audio Recordings, PA Mss 6
  • 7-inch audio tape reels of stage performances by Dame Judith Anderson
  • item-level inventory
  • audio digitization
OAC finding aid