A continued commitment to the preservation, accessibility, and
management of digital assets.
Experience
3/4/2010
Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
West
South Hadley, MA
·Workshop
Instruction
·Digitization in the Library and
Archive: Creation, Management and Preservation of Digital Assets
3/19/2010
New England Archivist,
Spring 2010 annual meeting
Amherst, MA
·Workshop
Instruction
·Digitization in the Library and
Archive: Creation, Management and Preservation of Digital Assets
9/1/2006 to Present
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA
Digitization Center Coordinator, Library information and
technology services
·Created and established an interdepartmental
electronic reserve system, based on a backed up repository system, that integrates
with the course management platform, Sakai. Continue support, management, production,
training and outreach. Implementing Metadata techniques for ease of location.
US Copyright law applied. The
e-reserves repository yearly includes an estimated 120 faculty, 200 courses
and thousands of readings. Some assets are migrated from varying courses or
delivered electronicly.
·Created, managed, cataloged, and produced a
successful electronic board book system for Mount Holyoke Colleges Board of
Trustees.
·Established and implement digitization
standards, workflow, and education on the value of metadata, for faculty
research, presentations, and publications.
·Produced Archival master and derivative files
for digital preservation of MHC’s Archives and Art Museum.
·Member of the Digital Asset Management team to
advise and implement best practices for the preservation and management of
Mount Holyoke’s digital material
·Advise and produce digital video for
administrative offices and classroom support
·Member of the Five College Digital Resource
collaborative
·Created, established and continued management
of a campus poster printing service. This service was provided by a collaboration
with the Astronomy Department and a grant from NASA.
·Hire, manage, train and support a team of 6 student
workers.
·Served on the team to asses commercial video
stream for course support.
Digital Asset Outreach and Workshops
·Awarded the 2009 NITLE Technology Fellow,
Mellon funded project, Decapod
·Awarded the 2009 NITLE Technology Fellow in
the area of digitization technologies
·Lead the Digitization Strategies, Technologies, and PracticesWorkshop
at the NITLE 2009 Technology Camp
·Co-taught with Elisa Lanzi, Art Information
Mangement Specialist from Smith College’s Imaging Center, a 2009 Digital
Asset Practicum for the METRO library organization in New York City.
·Presented at the NITLE 2008 D-Space meeting on
Digitization best practices, Puget Sound University.
5/1/1999 to 8/1/2006
The Chicago Albumen Works
Housatonic, MA
LAb Manager, digital and photographic conservation lab
·The Chicago Albumen Works is a vintage media
printing and archival digital duplication conservation lab. Clients are
primarily national and international archives, museums and universities.
·Duties included but not limited to:
·Workflow management, High resolution scanning
and metadata proccessesing, LVT negative production, quality control, image
management, project tracking, employee training and creation of instructional
material, archival large format ink jet printing, customer relations, pricing
and project biding.
·Worked with one of a kind, rare and valuable,
glass, nitrate and acetate negatives form the late 19th century to
contemporary artists. High-end copy work in black and white and color, all
formats of negative duplication and fine archival black and white printing,
production job delegation, testing of equipment and process and preventative
maintenance.
·Selected Projects: The University of Illinois
( The Carl Sandburg Collection), Lazlo Maholy-Nagy, Man Ray, The National
Archives, The National Park Service, The Library of Congress, The
Metropolitan Opera, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art,
The Philidelphia Museum of Art, The LbJ Presidential Library, The Connecticut
State Library, The Norman Rockwelll Museum.
Publication Aknowledgements for imaging services
·Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom,
“Rediscovering Jacob Riis,” The New Press, 2007
·Anthony Lee, “A Shoemakers Story,” Princeton
University Press, 2008
·Elizabeth Young, “Black Frankenstein,” New
York University Press, 2008
·Chistopher Pyle “Getting Away with Torture,”
Potomac Books, 2009
·Susan Barry, “Fixing My Gaze,” Basic Books,
2009
·Holly Hanson, “Mappiing Conflict: Heterarchy
and the Accountability in the Ancient Capital of Buganda”, Journal of African
history, 50 (2009)
9/1/1997 to 5/1/1999
The Holyoke Street School
Holyoke, MA
Photographic Instructor
·Traditional and Digital Photography teacher
and Student Advisor
·Received a 1997 and a 1998,
Massachusetts State Arts Council Grant, distributed by the city of Holyoke,
for the students to produce and execute a traveling exhibition documenting
the lives and landscape of inner city Holyoke, Entitled; Scenes of a City
1993 to Present
James Gehrt Photography
Easthampton, MA
Freelance comercial and Fine Art photography
·Artist publication and portfolio work
·Event, Academic, and Architectural photography
·Fine art exhibitions and hand bound book
publishing
Education
1988-1991
The Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, GA
BFA Photography
·Honor: The 1990
Rousakis Overseas Studies Scholarship, France
·Studied Under:
Craig Stevens, Jean Pierre Sudre and Lucien Clergue
Application Accepted for Simmons College, MLIS SPring 2010
·Interested
specialization in the Digital Library.
References available upon request
EXHIBITIONS
Selected Solo Exhibitions
From Where I'm Standing
2005
The East Wing Gallery, MWCC
Gardner, MA
The Jesus Show
2001
Central Gallery, UMASS
Amherst, MA
Students of the Street
School
1998
Heritage State Park Museum
Holyoke, MA
Visitation
1993
The Forbes Library Gallery
Northampton, MA
Transformation
1990
The
Bergstrom Mahler Museum
Neenah, WI
Selected Group Exhibitions
Mount Holyoke College
Northampton Center for the
Arts
2006
2005
Staff Art Exhibit
Relative Art(four person
show)
Hadley, MA
Northampton, MA
Northampton Center for the
Arts
2004
“Small
Works”
Northampton, MA
Northampton Center for the
Arts
2004
“The
Paper Show”
Northampton, MA
The Valley Portfolio
2003
“The
valley Portfolio II”
Springfield, MA
Artspace Gallery
2002
“CrossCurrents” (four person show)
Hartford, CT
The Period Gallery
2002
“Photographic
Processes IV”
Omaha, NE
The Macy Gallery
2000
“Winterscape”
Valhalla, NY
The Art Centre of Plano
2000
“Image
2000”
Plano, TX
The Stage Gallery
2000
“Photography
2000”
Merrick, NY
Eklektikos Gallery
2000
“Photo
2000”
Washington DC
Nexus Gallery
2000
Juried
Exhibition
New York, NY
Northampton Center for the
Arts
1995
Juried
Exhibition
Northampton, MA
The Zone Art Center
1994
Juried
Exhibition
Springfield, MA
2007 Self published book, “From Where I’m Standing”
