Patron Services Archivist                                                                    

January 1998-October 2002

Utah State Archives and Records Service

Salt Lake City, Utah

Patron Services Archivist January 1998-October 2002

• Arranging and describing collections
• Providing reference services to email, mail, telephone, and walk-in patrons
• Conducting tours and workshops
• Creating on-line research strategy guides
• Appraising and accessioning records
• EAD-encoding finding aids (beginning 2000)
• Supervising interns
• Performing state agency office records surveys

Primary Reference Archivist (concurrent with above) January 1999-October 2002

• Administering day-to-day operations of the Research Center and Research Center staff
• Developing and maintaining reference policies and procedures
• Maintaining the researcher management database
• Training new personnel in reference duties
• Maintaining the staff library

Cataloger (concurrent with above) April 2000-October 2002

• Original cataloging of archival materials
• Oversight of data entry completed by archival and records management colleagues in the collection management and records retention database