As a graduate assistant in the university archives, I interviewed and transcribed oral histories about the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State.
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As a graduate assistant, I appraised and processed the papers of a former Professor of School Psychology. This was Kent’s first archival collection to receive minimal processing. Includes research materials on the impact on children of divorce, maternal employment, and father involvement.
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As a graduate assistant at Kent State, I arranged and described the records for a six volume critical edition of the works of America’s first novelist. The collection includes an unpublished manuscript on Brown. The materials are richly described at the item level.
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A sampling of the online finding aids I worked on as a graduate assistant in Kent State University’s Special Collections and Archives.
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I compiled this check-list for the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Ingalls Library. It will be given as a handout at the Collection in Focus event planned for April 2, 2009.
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I compiled this bibliography for the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Ingalls Library. It will be given as a handout at the Collection in Focus event planned for April 2, 2009
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As an intern in the Beinecke’s digital library, I created 614 metadata records for the comprehensive digitization of the Viola Baxter Jordan papers, the first collection to undergo a Rapid Imaging Process in which a copy stand camera takes JPEG 2000s. This synopsis of the collection was originally published on Poetry at the Beinecke.
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While in library school, I volunteered to help improve access to the artists’ book collection at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Gund Library. I provided suggestions for enhanced, user-oriented description which the librarians are now incorporating into cataloging guidelines and individual records.
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Robin is currently the Outreach + Public Services Archivist at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
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