Enthusiastic Archivist for Hire!

[ktmadden]

Headline: Enthusiastic Archivist for Hire!
Name: Kristen Madden
Email Address: ktmadden86@gmail.com
Current Location: Plymouth, IN, United States

Preferred Job Category: Archives

Personal Statement:


Education:
Bachelor of Art: English, Oakland University 2008
Masters Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington 2010

Professional Experience:
Center for History, South Bend, IN
Aug. 2010- Present
Archivist

•Manage and process telephone, e-mail and personal requests for information.
•Facilitate archival research by museum staff, researchers, and volunteers.
•Oversee photographic reproduction services including, the processing
of appropriate paperwork, granting permissions and assessing fees.
•Facilitate other reproduction services offered to outside researchers.
•Supervise volunteers and interns.
•Maintain and update archives database.

Indiana University Liberian Collections, Bloomington, IN
Sept 2008- May 2010
Archival Specialist
Responsibilities:
•Process collections
•Assemble finding aids for IU Bloomington Archival Website
•Construct inventories and catalogs of media in collections
•Process scanned photos into IU Bloomington Photo Cataloging System (Photocat)
•Scan slides, photographs, and books to send to the Digital Collections Project
•Supervise inventory sent to Ebsco
•Answered patron and research questions

Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, CeDir Library, Bloomington, IN
Jan 2009- Jan 2010
Reference Assistant
Responsibilities:
•Authored CeDir Autism Resource Blog
•Authored CeDir blog
•Added new books to the collection
•Removed unused books from the collection
•Checked-in and discharged books for patrons
•Answered patron questions

Liberian Collections Project, Bloomington, IN
May-Aug 2009
Archival Specialist (Internship)
Achievements:
•McEvoy Collection Finding Aid-
Frederick Dean McEvoy, 1956-1979
•Friends of Liberia Collection Finding Aid-
Friends of Liberia , 1986-2006
Responsibilities:
•Processed collections
•Constructed finding aids for IU Finding Aid Website

Applicable Skills:
•Microsoft Office
•Adobe Photoshop
•Lightroom
•PhotoCat
•Asscession
•Blogger
•HTML
•EAD
•EAC
•Sirsi Workflows
•PastPerfect

Other: