Volunteering

Contingent Employment Study II Task Force

New England Archivists, Inclusion and Diversity Committee
Remote
November 2020 – present

Volunteer member of the Contingent Employment Study II Task Force organized by the New England Archivists’ Inclusion and Diversity Committee. Activities include developing and designing a survey for contingent archival workers, compiling and analyzing data points from archival job postings, promoting the survey, and presenting a report of survey results and analysis to the NEA Board. Report submitted to the NEA Executive Board, February 2022. As of November 2022, task force members have completed a draft article and submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.

Skills: data analysis | project management | social media outreach | survey design
Tools: Excel | Google Docs | Google Sheets | Zoom

Tag Wrangler

Organization for Transformative Works
Remote
October 2020 – present

Volunteer position working on the Archive Of Our Own (AO3) project to organize user-generated tags to improve content discoverability with faceted searching. The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is an international, online, non-profit organization of fans, formed for the protection and preservation of fannish culture.

Skills: crowdsourced tagging | metadata standards
Tools: MediaWiki | Slack

Audio Transcript Editor

New York University Special Collections
Remote
October 19-30, 2020

Volunteer for NYU Libraries’ “Soul of Reason” virtual transcribe-a-thon: a two-week project to hand-correct auto-generated transcripts of audio recordings from the “Soul of Reason” radio show using Konch transcription service and following the Oral History Transcription Style Guide from Columbia University’s Center for Oral History Research. These recordings are part of the Records of the Institute of African American Affairs in NYU Special Collections.

Skills: audio transcription | copyediting
Tools: Konch | Slack | Zoom

Document Scanner and Transcriber

New England Historic Genealogical Society
Boston, MA
November 2016 – November 2017

Volunteer scanner and transcriber for the joint NEHGS and Boston Archdiocese project, Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920. Project duties include on-site scanning and remote transcription of large, bound volumes of handwritten sacramental records.

Skills: digitization | handling fragile materials | handwriting transcription | remote project work
Tools: Dropbox | flatbed scanner

Project Archivist

The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
Boston, MA
November 5, 2016

Volunteer at a Day of Service event organized by the New England Archivists’ Roundtable for Early Professionals and Students (REPS). Volunteers collaboratively arrange, describe, and rehouse, 10 cubic feet of archival materials.

Skills: archival description | archival processing | collaborative project management

Project Archivist

Worcester Refugee Archive, Clark University
Worcester, MA
October 17, 2015

Volunteer at a Day of Service event organized by the New England Archivists’ Roundtable for Early Professionals and Students (REPS). Volunteer work included writing item-level descriptions of the Worcester Refugee Archive’s collections for their WordPress catalog/blog.

Skills: archival description | research

Library Volunteer

Westford Academy
Westford, MA
September 2004 – June 2012