Skills and Experience
Tools
Projects
Oconto County Cemetery Search Database; Joint Oconto County Genealogical Society and Oconto Falls Library Effort, input obituary data from the Oconto County Times Herald into a database.
Oconto Falls Library Municipality Card Check; Oconto Falls Public Library, checking library card applications against voter lists and property lists to verify that the municipality code matches.
Building Playhouse; Oconto Falls Public Library, put together a wooden playhouse in the children's section.
Project: Ditching Dewey; Gillett Public Library, full on weed and expand BISAC topical sorting in the library with the eventual goal of Ditching Dewey Decimal System at the Gillett Public Library. This is to facilitate the easy retrieval of nonfiction items for staff and patrons. It had an impact on the cooking, craft and garden section and is now having a definite impact on History and Biographies. The children's section and audio books are done and it is getting results, our circulation numbers in those sections have gone up.
Tools
- 18+ research in family history and genealogy
- Three published family history books
- Proficient Microsoft Word, Power Point
- Experience in CarlX/CarlConnect, Millenium, Sierra, and Follett ILS Systems
- Proficient Google Docs
- Proficient Family Tree Maker
- Familiar with Canva
- Familiar with HTML Coding, XML
- Familiar with copy and original cataloging
- Knowlegable in MARC, RDA, Dublin Core
- Familiar with cataloging tools OCLC and SkyRiver
- Familiar with BISAC
- Familiar with minutes taking and meeting procedures
Projects
Oconto County Cemetery Search Database; Joint Oconto County Genealogical Society and Oconto Falls Library Effort, input obituary data from the Oconto County Times Herald into a database.
Oconto Falls Library Municipality Card Check; Oconto Falls Public Library, checking library card applications against voter lists and property lists to verify that the municipality code matches.
Building Playhouse; Oconto Falls Public Library, put together a wooden playhouse in the children's section.
Project: Ditching Dewey; Gillett Public Library, full on weed and expand BISAC topical sorting in the library with the eventual goal of Ditching Dewey Decimal System at the Gillett Public Library. This is to facilitate the easy retrieval of nonfiction items for staff and patrons. It had an impact on the cooking, craft and garden section and is now having a definite impact on History and Biographies. The children's section and audio books are done and it is getting results, our circulation numbers in those sections have gone up.
oconto_county_obituary_project__2_.pdf |
oconto_falls_library.docx |
Library Skills
Cataloging & Metadata
Cataloging assignment from Beginning Cataloging and Classification
Created a Metadata Scheme using Dublin Core for a collection of Royal Cards
Cataloging a single letter from an archive collection of letters
Practice Catalog for Beginning Cataloging through UW-Madison
Cataloging assignment from Beginning Cataloging and Classification
Created a Metadata Scheme using Dublin Core for a collection of Royal Cards
Cataloging a single letter from an archive collection of letters
Practice Catalog for Beginning Cataloging through UW-Madison
info248meyersassignment4.docx |
info281kmeyersassignment4.docx |
info256meyerscataloging.docx |
catalog_project.docx |
Collection Management
Archives Appraisal worksheet evaluating the value of a collection to an archives.
Weeded a library that was not weeded in 20+ years, removed books that were falling apart, pulled out all large print books to create a large print section, redid spine labels, resorted audiobooks, color coded genres, and moved items around in to sections where they will do better.
Archives Appraisal worksheet evaluating the value of a collection to an archives.
Weeded a library that was not weeded in 20+ years, removed books that were falling apart, pulled out all large print books to create a large print section, redid spine labels, resorted audiobooks, color coded genres, and moved items around in to sections where they will do better.
info256meyersappraisal.xls |
Research & Evaluation
Organized and wrote a research paper on the information community the Outagamie-Waupaca and Nicolet Federated Library Systems.
Literature review of what scholarly articles available about information community and consortium
Experienced Genealogist, a genealogy report on the Helena Engelmann Family.
Organized and wrote a research paper on the information community the Outagamie-Waupaca and Nicolet Federated Library Systems.
Literature review of what scholarly articles available about information community and consortium
Experienced Genealogist, a genealogy report on the Helena Engelmann Family.
libr200meyerspaper.pdf |
libr200meyerslitreview.docx |
descendants_of_helena__lena__johanna_engelmann.pdf |