Art Information and Visual Resources Professional

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Headline: Art Information and Visual Resources Professional
Name: Teresa Soleau
Email Address: teresa.soleau@gmail.com
Current Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Preferred Job Category: Other

Personal Statement:
I am passionate about creating broader access to art information and images. I seek a dynamic position that allows me to serve users (scholars, students, faculty, curators, the public) by facilitating intellectual access to works of art and their digital images whether in a museum, library or archive setting, academic, private, or public.

Education:
University of California, Los Angeles
MLIS: Expected Dec. 2009
Focus: Art Informatics

Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
BA: May 2005
Major: Art History

Related graduate-level coursework:
Art Historical Theories and Methodologies (Stephen Nelson)
Visual Resources (Jonathan Furner)
Metadata (Murtha Baca)
American Archives and Manuscripts (Anne Gilliland)

Professional Experience:
Serials Check-in and Auction Catalog Assistant, The Getty Research Institute study
(Library Assistant level II and then level III)
*Perform original and copy cataloging of current and retrospective auction sales catalogs
*Create and update authority records for auction houses and auctioneers
*Check-in all current serial receipts.
*Participate in implementation of ANSI/ISOZ39.71 (Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items)
*Work on project to verify holdings of special collections serial titles
*Some supervision of work-study undergraduate student

Intern, Occidental College Library, Special Collections
*Transformation of local database objects for import into the Online Archive of California
*Website and database maintenance

Intern, Getty Vocabulary Program, The Getty Research Institute
*Entered and edited terms in all three vocabularies (TGN, AAT and ULAN)
*Performed maintenance as needed (merges, record expansion, etc.)

Undergraduate Intern, Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program, Oberlin College Library
*Continued work on the Mail Art Prototype Database
*Completed curriculum about the library profession

Private Reading, Mail (Correspondence) Art Prototype, Oberlin College Library
*Developed and revised metadata standards and controlled subject vocabulary for the Oberlin College Mail Art Collection
*Researched the Mail Art movement to inform selection of artists for prototype
*Created inventories of selected folders and chose pieces to include in prototype
*Scanned works with Photoshop and populated database to present for grant using OASIS
*Composed biographies of artists and bibliographies to include in database

Intern, Detroit Institute of Arts Research Library
*Inventoried complete collection of architectural plans
*Participated in reorganization project of branch library

Applicable Skills:
Languages: Fluency in French

Computer: Word Processing (PC and Macintosh), Access (reporting feature), Photoshop

Metadata standards: AACR2, MARC, and some experience with CCO and CDWA

Databases: Voyager, SCIPIO, OCLC Connexion, CONTENTdm and DigiTool.

Other:
ARTiFACTS, UCLA ARLIS-like group
*Treasurer (Fall 2007-Present)

Seymour Lubetzky Fellowship – UCLA – 2007/2008

Mellon Librarian Recuitment Program Library School Scholarship – 2007/2008

Member:
American Library Association since September 2005
Visual Resources Association since January 2009

Volunteer: Planned Parenthood Los Angeles since June 2006
*New Volunteer of the Year 2006/2007
*Co-coordinator of West Hollywood Choice Lounge (Jan. 2007-Present)