EMPLOYMENT

• Analyze a variety of large, complex manuscript collections for their intellectual content, organization, and description needs.
• Perform original item and collection level descriptive and subject cataloging for the wide variety of materials and subjects found in manuscript collections.
• Assign subject headings and added entries in accordance with Duke's AMC cataloging policies, utilizing the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules and Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts.
• Establish appropriate form of main and added entries and place names; write the scope and content note. Apply OCLC (Online Catalog Library Center) conventions to the creation of MARC records for Duke's online catalog.
• Prepare descriptive tools for manuscript collections, including writing the text for collection inventories. Participate in planning, review, and implementation of Technical Services Team's mission and technical procedures.
• Provide reference service on a rotating Saturday and holiday schedule.
• Provide microcomputer desktop support in collaboration with the library's Technical Services Network. Maintain team statistics, design spreadsheets, and provide reports as requested.
• Manage library's archival supplies inventory.

• Three positions of progressive responsibility, the last of which involved managing a staff of seven library assistants and seven student assistants in all functions related to the bibliographic searching of monographic orders and currently received sets and gifts.
• Personnel responsibilities included hiring, training, firing, disciplinary actions, and recommending promotions or upgrades.
• Served as primary contact between searching staff and subject area bibliographers
• Worked closely with head of Collection Development to monitor flow of orders and expenditures on designated funds
• Trained new permanent staff and student assistants.
• Created library's first hypertext staff manual on World Wide Web (1994).
• Served on leadership and automation teams and participated in workshops related to the implementation of TQM.

• Cataloged materials with Library of Congress cataloging records on OCLC.
• Assigned Dewey Decimal numbers and generated name authority work for Duke catalogs.
• Job required working knowledge of AACR2, Dewey Decimal Classification and OCLC MARC format as well as familiarity with European languages.

• Searched OCLC for cataloging records.
• Verified name headings.
• Made routing decisions.
• Located uncataloged material.
• Trained eight student assistants.

• Edited online and produced OCLC records and cards for Duke catalogs.
• Updated local database to indicate completion of cataloging.
• Trained new employees as needed.

• Entered and analyzed data.
• Edited text online in UNIX to assist supervisor in preparing manuscripts for publication.
• Bookkeeping for federal grants, library research, and communication with various Duke departments concerning computer problems.

• Responsibilities included sales, payroll, accounting, and supervision.