Archives – alimb

Alexandra Wieland

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Processing and Reference Archivist, Simon Fraser University

Areas of expertise: I currently work in Special Collections at Simon Fraser University as a Processing and Reference Archivist. Prior to this (2016-2020), I was an Information and Privacy Archivist in the Archives and Records Management Department at SFU. I have held previous roles in government and crown corporations at a records manager.

Areas of specialty are: Archives, Protection of Privacy, Access to Information/Freedom of Information, records management
Can help with: I love providing comments on resumes or CVs. Happy to review cover letters and discuss potential interview questions for academic archives. You can contact me for informational interviews, or with questions about salary negotiation, getting involved in professional associations, or getting involved in faculty association
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: awieland@sfu.ca, @viadiversi

Archivist, Western University

Areas of expertise: All aspects of archival practice with particular interest in social media, reference and outreach.
Can help with: Can help with CV development and review, job applications, general career advice
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: anne.daniel@uwo.ca

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Digital Archives Librarian, Archives and Research Collections, McMaster University

Areas of expertise: processing, born-digital records, crowdsourcing, daily life working in archives, reference
Can help with: questions about working in archives, with born-digital, and will do my best on job questions/CVs; anything else, I will do my best to answer questions
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: whittle@mcmaster.ca / @widgetbrittle

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PhD student at the University of Maryland/former Digital Archivist at Davidson College

Areas of expertise: digital humanities, archives pedagogy, oral history, trying to build community, outreach, some digital preservation planning, collaborative writing, higher ed stuff
Can help with: Resumes/CVs/cover letters, professional development advice, deciding to go back for even more schooling, getting involved in professional organizations, working in different types of archives (small liberal arts college, historical society, museum, think tank-y org)
Can speak: English
Can read: English, French
Contact: @christianlamb, caitlinchristianlamb.com, cclamb@terpmail.umd.edu

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PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Computing & Information

Areas of expertise: archives, personal records, digital preservation, project management
Can help with: resumes/cover letters, pay/benefit negotiation, project planning/management, working collaboratively, questions about returning to school after the MLIS
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: cmg100@pitt.edu / chelseagunn.com / @cheegunn

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Project Archivist, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University

Areas of expertise: Metadata, arrangement and description, oral histories, project management, ArchivesSpace, vicarious trauma, supervising student workers, academic libraries.
Can help with: Informational interviews about the profession and job competencies, questions about the above subject areas. I sometimes have time to review things like resumes and cover letters too, but please ask before sending on materials.
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: christy.bailey-tomecek@yale.edu / @GothArchivist

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Lecturer, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa

Areas of expertise: I worked for 10 years as a special collections librarian and curator. Now I welcome the students into the program at Iowa, teaching the intro course, as well as Literacy & Learning (a teaching course) and courses related to academic libraries and special collections.
Occasionally, I teach in the summer for San Jose State's program.
Can help with: special collections
library instruction, especially special collections
management
informational interviews
how to pick a graduate program
Can speak: English, easy Japanese
Can read: English
Contact: colleen-theisen@uiowa.edu; @libcolleen on Twitter

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Digital Archivist in Special Collections & Archives at the University of Waterloo Library

Areas of expertise: digital projects, online outreach, crosswalking descriptive records into XML metadata files, search optimization, diversifying the historical record surfaced through digital content, Wikipedia, standing in hot kitchens
Can speak: English, (some) French
Can read: English, French
Contact: danielle.robichaud@uwaterloo.ca / @danielleganza

Just call me Devon. I'm not big on pronouns.

Electronic Records Archivist at the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Areas of expertise: Government Records, Born-Digital collection Management, Metadata, Archives and Museum Artifacts collection management, Graphic artist.
Can help with: CV Review, Digitization, Artifact (especially Art) Handling, Troubleshooting ideas about digital preservation concerns. Ohio River Valley Local History.

I love helping if I get advanced notice.
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: @lizbeth0255 / archivistfox.wordpress.com / devonstivers55@aol.com

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Digital Preservation Services Manager, Artefactual Systems (formerly Head, Office of Digital Innovation & Stewardship, University of Arizona)

Areas of expertise: digital preservation, archives, program development, portfolio management, management, digital scholarship, data management, data curation
Can help with: job interview questions, management in academic libraries, program development, digital preservation
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: omeara.erin@gmail.com, @diplomaticaerin