EXPERIENCE

Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT

Project Archivist

September 2008 - present

(As of this writing I have worked 3.5 days. The following is from the job announcement:)

  • Catalog backlog of 900 manuscripts, including 253 account books, dating from the 18th century to present.
  • Review or gather documentation about the collections to determine provenance.
  • Examine manuscript collections to identify information necessary for minimal catalog record.
  • Conduct basic research, using CHS library and on line resources, to establish life dates for individuals, relationships among individuals in family collections, and summary history of businesses or organizations.
  • Create K-level MARC record using Connexion Client software.
  • Identify complex collections requiring EAD-encoded finding aids in a later project.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA

Manuscript Librarian

September 2007 - August 2008

  • Maintained accessions database and created MARC records for newly acquired eighteenth century manuscripts.
  • Coded EAD finding aids, following DACS standards, for both newly acquired and older manuscript collections.
  • Improved physical access to Special Collections manuscripts.
  • Monitored Special Collections reading room and assisted patrons in locating material.
  • Supervised part-time graduate student intern.
  • Collection development responsibility for Archaeology.

Special Collections Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Graduate Student Assistant

May 2007 - July 2007

  • Processed records of Ardis, a publisher of Russian literature formerly based in Ann Arbor, MI, and created EAD-ready finding aid. Collection measured over 20 linear feet..

Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Graduate Reference Assistant

September 2006 – July 2007

  • Assisted patrons in Reading Room
  • Answered reference questions via postal mail and email.
  • Created online exhibit, titled Women of Michigan, for Bentley’s web page.

Graduate Student Processor

September 2005 – April 2006

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

John Foster and Janet Avery Dulles Summer Fellow

May – August 2006

  • Processed collections for Public Policy Papers and University Archives.
  • Prepared finding aids in EAD format using XML and DACS standards.
  • Answered reference questions via telephone and email.
  • Developed draft policy for archiving University web sites.

The Hartford Financial Services, Inc., Hartford, CT

Developer

October 2001 – August 2005

  • Promoted to developer in recognition of superior performance. Expanded duties include maintaining rate database, designing and implementing system enhancements.
  • Key contact between Information Technology and Actuarial Departments for all system interface issues.

Technician

September 1998 – October 2001

  • Programmer for a Commercial Lines small business product.
  • Worked individually and as part of a team to maintain and develop the mainframe system according to customers needs. Research and solve system production problems.

VOLUNTEER POSITIONS

Special Collections Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Intern

February 2007 – April 2007

  • Processed collection related to the publication of Boris Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago and poetry by the University of Michigan Press.

Humanities and Social Sciences Library, New York Public Library,
New York, NY

Intern, University of Michigan School of Information Alternative Spring Break Program

February/March 2007

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI.

Fall 2005 – Winter 2007

Trinity College, Hartford, CT.

Beginning Spring 1999

Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.

Fall 1994 – Spring 1998

American Collegiate Consortium

(now Middlebury College School in Russia),

Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia

Spring 1997

  • Semester program of intensive Russian language instruction, history, literature, and culture of Russia.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Library Association

Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference

New England Archivists

Society of American Archivists

REFERENCES

Available upon request.

© 2008 Jennifer R. Sharp