Assistant Part Time

VIOLA VOSS

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EDUCATION

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Master of Arts - Library and Information Science

(post-graduate correspondence degree course)

Degree expected in July 2005

1999 2001 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

Master of Library Service (MLS), January 2001 (GPA 3.9)

Full Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service

(DAAD)

1993 1999 Master of Arts (MA), February 1999 (GPA 3.75)

Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany

Major Subject: Modern History

Minor Subjects: English and American Literature

Medieval History

Media Studies

EXPERIENCE

6/2002 present ARCHIVIST

Leo Baeck Institute, New York, NY

Accession, process and catalog archival collections

Provide on- and off-site reference services

Maintain the archival catalog (currently InMagic

DB/TextWorks)

Train and supervise volunteers and interns

Design and manage web site (www.lbi.org)

Assist curator and registrar with exhibition preparation

Represent LBI archives at meetings with partners of the

Center for Jewish History

1/2001 4/2002 ASSISTANT ARCHIVIST

Leo Baeck Institute, New York, NY

Managed photograph collection of 30,000 images. Duties

included cataloging images; database maintenance;

preparing photographs for digitization; handling

reproduction requests; handling copyright issues;

supervising volunteers and interns.

Provided on- and off-site reference services

9/2000 1/2001 GRADUATE ASSISTANT (part time)

Thomas A. Edison Papers, Rutgers University, New Brunswick,

NJ

Encoded correspondence and other texts related to Thomas

A. Edison for an electronic edition according to the Text

Encoding Initiative's (TEI) Guidelines for Electronic Text

Encoding and Interchange

5-7/2000 INTERN (part time)

Margaret Sanger Papers Project, New York University,

New York, NY

Evaluated electronic editions for the Association for

Documentary Editing s Committee on Electronic Standards

Transcribed and encoded correspondence, articles and other

texts related to Margaret Sanger for an electronic edition

according to the Model Editions Partnership s (MEP)

Markup Guidelines for Documentary Editions

5-12/2000 LIBRARY INFORMATION ASSISTANT (part time)

Alexander Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Assisted reference librarians by providing first-level

information assistance to patrons

6/1997 VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT

University Library, University of Exeter, UK

Provided references services related to audio-visual

collection

Re-cataloged parts of the library collection in cooperation

with the Assistant Librarian

10/1995 10/1996 GRADUATE ASSISTANT (part time)

History and Media Studies Departments,

Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany

Filed journals and magazines

Compiled bibliographies for graduate courses

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Training and experience in Internet and database research, Web design, design

and maintenance of databases and integrated library systems, word processing

and spreadsheets, as well as metadata and related standards (HMTL, SGML,

XML, Dublin Core, US-MARC, EAD)

References available on request

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reproduction requests; handling copyright issues;

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