Printable CVLori Birrell
www.Lori.Birrell.us
Email: lori@birrell.us
EDUCATION:
Masters of Arts, Library and Information Science, Simmons College, 2011
Library Information Science Student Association, Simmons College
• Co- President, Fall 2010- Spring 2011
• Represented the organization at Simmons College Library Information Science prospective student information sessions, organized career information workshops, and social events
• Supervised the distribution and completion of course evaluations
Masters of Arts, History, University of Massachusetts- Amherst, 2009
Bachelor of Arts, Feminist Studies, Mount Holyoke College, Cum Laude, Honors in History, 2007
Concentrations: Gender Studies, History
Senior Thesis: Susan B. Anthony: A Visionary of the Nineteenth Century American Female Suffrage Movement
LIBRARY AND ARCHIVAL EXPERIENCE:
Manuscript Librarian, University of Rochester, Rare Books and Special Collections, May 2011- present
• Curates nineteenth and twentieth century historical collections
• Project Manager for Post Family Papers digitization project of 2,000 items
• Supervises para-professional staff member
• Presents manuscript materials to faculty, staff, students and community members
• Contributes content to Rush Rhees Library’s Facebook page and Twitter feed
Digital Collections Intern, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, MA, September 2010- present
• Learned CONTENTdm and applied modified Dublin Core metadata to newly digitized objects
• Supervised student assistant who scanned and described materials requested by researchers for digitization
• Collaborated with other library department staff members, implemented Perl script which greatly increased productivity when adding digital items to the online collection through a collaboration with other library department staff members
• Trained staff member in new digitization processes
• Updated the digitization manual to reflect new workflow procedures
• Performed outreach by uploading digital content to the library’s Facebook page
• Communicated with researchers to meet their digitization needs in a timely manner
• Completed processing of the Joseph Brodsky Collection and encoded finding aid in EAD using Archivists Toolkit
Intern, Preservation Lab, State Library of Massachusetts, Summer 2010
• Selected items from the Massachusetts Room holdings of the library for preservation treatment
• Determine course of action of each selected item
• Contributed blog postings to the Library’s blog roll detailing the preservation process
Intern, University Archives and Special Collections University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMB) Spring, 2010
• Processed the Women’s Studies Program Collection, documenting the history of the department at UMB
• Developed a finding aid for the processed collection
• Created a MARC record for the repository’s on-line catalog
Intern, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Winter, Spring 2009
• Finalized and ushered class oral history projects through the accessioning phase
• Updated finding aids in Encoded Archival Description (EAD) formatting
• Processed Welfare section of ARISE collection
• Transcribed 15 oral histories
ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE:
Social Media Coordinator, Emily Dickinson International Society, Amherst, MA, September 2010- present
• Developed a plan of action for promoting and expanding the membership of the society
• Extended the society’s on-line presence to Twitter and Facebook
• Researched similar literary society’s use of social media
Adjunct Professor, History 302- Research and Analysis, Westfield State College, Fall 2009
• Developed course syllabus and content
• Taught students through lectures and individual conferences to develop a research topic and gather primary and secondary sources culminating in a 30 page research paper
• Guided students through the writing process, including drafting a thesis statement, creating a historiography of their topic, and analyzing their sources to create an original piece of scholarship
• Graded all assignments
Tour Guide, Emily Dickinson Homestead and Museum, 2008- 2009
• Presented biographical, historical, and literary information to a varied audience
• Prepared materials for museum public programs and mailings
Teaching Assistant, History 111- Global Civilizations 1450 to the Present, History 151- US History since 1865- Multiculturalism in American History, University of Massachusetts- Amherst, Fall 2008 and Spring 2009
• Introduced students to the application of primary documents and materials in their critique of historical trends and themes related to each class
• Presented lecture in professor’s absence
• Graded and critiqued papers and exams throughout semester
Content Developer, “Our Plural History” Springfield Technical Community College, Winter, Spring and Summer 2008
• Researched local history topics using primary and secondary materials culminating in 12 written pieces for on-line publication
Research Assistant, Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth, Fall 2007
• Edited Bai, Limin. “Children as the Youthful Hope of an Old Empire: Race, Nationalism, and Elementary Education in China: 1895-1915.” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. Vol. 1 No. 2. Spring 2008
PRESENTATIONS:
“Omeka: Taking the Work out of Managing Your Digital Content,” Techno-Smart Series, Western New England College, Springfield, MA, 2010
“Re-Imagining Race in the Nineteenth Century Woman’s Suffrage Movement through the Eyes of a Visionary: Paulina Wright Davis and the First National Woman’s Rights Convention,”
Boston University, Graduate Student Conference, Politics and History, Boston, MA, 2009
“Susan B. Anthony: A Visionary of the Nineteenth Century American Female Suffrage Movement,” Mount Holyoke College Senior Symposium, South Hadley, MA, 2007
PUBLICATIONS:
Satter, Lori. (2010). You Want Me to Do What? Overcoming your fear of public speaking for new educators
‘Putting the “P” in Preservation,’ Video, 2010
“The Intangibles: Tips for Job Hunting and Interviewing in the Archives Field.” NEA
Newsletter: New England Archivists. Vol. 37. No. 3, July 2010
University of Massachusetts Boston Women’s Studies Program Records, 1972-2006,
Finding Aid, MARC format, Special Collections, UMass- Boston, Spring 2010
Review. Schlatter, N. Elizabeth. Museum Careers: A Practical Guide for Students
and Novices. American Archivist, Spring/Summer 2010
League of Women Voters Berkshire County, Finding Aid, EAD format, Special Collections University Archives, UMass- Amherst, Spring 2010
“Japanology” Research Guide, Selected text, Special Collections University Archives,
UMass-Amherst, 2008
Our Plural History, 2008
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
New England Archivists, Winter 2010- present, Member
Society of American Archivists, Winter 2010- present, Member
SPECIAL SKILLS:
Encoding Standards: XML, XSLT, CSS
Description Standards: EAD, TEI, METS, Dublin Core
Computer Programs: CONTENTdm, Archivists Toolkit, WordPress, oXygen, NotetabPro, Omeka, Dreamweaver, Apple’s iMovie, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint
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