Museum professional with a varied background

[ayshaq11]

Headline: Museum professional with a varied background
Name: Aysha Haq
Email Address: ahaq11@gmail.com
Current Location: Villa Park, IL United States

Preferred Job Category: Registrar/Collections Manager

Personal Statement:
Having worked in museums, archives, and libraries since college, I believe I am uniquely qualified for an assistant registrar/collections position. I have worked as part of a team and independently in different positions within cultural institutions.

Education:
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Master of Arts, Departments of History and Museum Studies, May 2003
Master’s Thesis: 'Knowledge and Revolution': The Masses and The Messenger, 1911-1919


University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bachelor of Arts, Department of History, June 1998
Bachelor’s Thesis: Politicization of Blacks, in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1930.
Dean’s List, Spring 1998

Professional Experience:
Teen Services Librarian, Hammond Public Library, February 2006-present. Serve as a reference librarian and a reader’s adviser. Oversee Library’s Teen Room. Plan and conduct dynamic teen programs, including Teen Advisory Board. Maintain relevant collection development. Plan and implement adult Library programs as chairman of Programming Committee.

Floater Librarian, Hammond Public Library, March 2005-January 2006. Help patrons with reference questions. Serve as a reader’s advisory. Conduct book discussions.

Interim Director/Curator, Historical and Cultural Museum of Hammond, Indiana, Jan.-Dec. 2004. Planned and created exhibits. Inventoried, cataloged, and processed collections. Applied for related grants. Worked with community members to maintain collections. Created budgets.

Student Employee, Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University, July 2002-July 2003. Processed and cataloged collections. Digitized and cataloged images. Assisted researchers with their work.

Intern, Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University, Fall 2002. Created exhibit about Tufts University’s V-12 Naval Officer Training Program from 1941-1972. Planned exhibit while cooperating with donors. Cataloged objects, and labels. Documented exhibit by developing website, increasing the exhibit’s accessibility. (Page Not Found - Digital Collections and Archives - Tufts University)

Project Assistant, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL, June 2000-August 2001. Grant project to digitize and catalog and collection of 55,000 glass-plate photonegatives from the Chicago Daily News archive, which is now part of the Library of Congress’ American Memory. Researched approximately 25,000 of the photonegatives. Supervised two summer interns. Cataloged part of the collection. Sleeved and organized glass-plate photonegatives.

Applicable Skills:
Acrobat Adobe, PastPerfect, Photoshop, Re:discovery, FileMaker Pro, Excel, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect