I am experienced in cataloging in a variety of methods and practices and am practiced in cataloging items in libraries, museums, and in image collections.
At Cornish College of the Arts, I work closely with our cataloger and we confer frequently on the cataloging needs of the collection, specifically the art and design sections. I went through the RDA training with our past cataloger and when I took LIS 531, Catalogs, Cataloging, and Classification at the UW, she was someone I would frequently turn to when I had questions.
As Curator of Visual Resources (then Visual Arts Librarian - now Director of LIbrary Services) since 2002, I have been cataloging slides and bringing them into the transition to digital images. To the latter end, I attended the Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management (SEI) at Reed College. Part of what I learned at the SEI was how to develop my new digital system along with the mapping necessary to move the analog collection into digital.
At Cornish, I also am responsible for the college Archives and I am in the process of cataloging the collection. As is standard in archives, this is not item-level cataloging, but rather cataloging that is by small groups within the archives to facilitate access by researchers.
As Collection Manager of the Monsen Collection, I have been cataloging the collection since 2001 following a museum-based in-house system that meets the specific needs of the collectors.
While a graduate student in the Museology program at the University of Washington, I took coursework that taught me the standards of cataloging original objects in a museum setting. I went on to work in the Henry Art Gallery under the supervision of Curator of Collections Judy Sourakli and specifically cataloged items from their extensive photography collection. While there, Judy Sourakli put me in touch with the Drs. Monsen, who were looking for assistance with their photography collection. I became their Registrar where I have cataloged their collections of photography, ceramics, Asian art and over 1,000 books.
I enjoy bringing order to chaos and find pleasure in looking back at items I have cataloged and items I have organized. This may be an odd way of looking at it, but it is actually restful for my mind.
At Cornish College of the Arts, I work closely with our cataloger and we confer frequently on the cataloging needs of the collection, specifically the art and design sections. I went through the RDA training with our past cataloger and when I took LIS 531, Catalogs, Cataloging, and Classification at the UW, she was someone I would frequently turn to when I had questions.
As Curator of Visual Resources (then Visual Arts Librarian - now Director of LIbrary Services) since 2002, I have been cataloging slides and bringing them into the transition to digital images. To the latter end, I attended the Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management (SEI) at Reed College. Part of what I learned at the SEI was how to develop my new digital system along with the mapping necessary to move the analog collection into digital.
At Cornish, I also am responsible for the college Archives and I am in the process of cataloging the collection. As is standard in archives, this is not item-level cataloging, but rather cataloging that is by small groups within the archives to facilitate access by researchers.
As Collection Manager of the Monsen Collection, I have been cataloging the collection since 2001 following a museum-based in-house system that meets the specific needs of the collectors.
While a graduate student in the Museology program at the University of Washington, I took coursework that taught me the standards of cataloging original objects in a museum setting. I went on to work in the Henry Art Gallery under the supervision of Curator of Collections Judy Sourakli and specifically cataloged items from their extensive photography collection. While there, Judy Sourakli put me in touch with the Drs. Monsen, who were looking for assistance with their photography collection. I became their Registrar where I have cataloged their collections of photography, ceramics, Asian art and over 1,000 books.
I enjoy bringing order to chaos and find pleasure in looking back at items I have cataloged and items I have organized. This may be an odd way of looking at it, but it is actually restful for my mind.