Graduate Research Assistant

OU-Tulsa Schusterman Library

  • Staff the library’s service desks and the online chat service
  • Manage study space reservations using Springshare LibCal
  • Serve on the strategic planning committee and worked in collaboration with faculty and staff in developing a strategic plan aligning with OU’s new university-wide strategic plan
  • Serve on a subcommittee to develop and deploy a survey of our university community and analyze the resulting data and generated reports to inform the strategic planning committee
  • Design themed displays of library materials to promote our collections and resources
  • Assist library users affiliated with all of the University of Oklahoma and OU Health Sciences programs with using databases, citation management software, and locating resources
  • Assist with hosting and presenting library events and activities
  • Provide technical support and answer reference questions for graduate students
  • Conduct literature searches for faculty, researchers, students, and medical residents to assist with university research and special projects
  • Use citation management apps to manage and generate citation lists
  • Create metadata and provide information and access to rural physicians on the Research to Practice, Practice to Research platform
  • Assist in training new staff members in library policies and procedures

    • Rare Book Cataloging Intern and Volunteer

    The University of Tulsa

  • Original and complex-copy cataloging
  • Catalog rare books using RDA, ISBD punctuation, MARC21, LOC Classification, and other basic cataloging standards and practices
  • Binding and condition descriptions, and other related rare book cataloging practices
  • Catalog non-Latin language books
  • Use OCLC’s Worldshare Management System (WMS) and Aeon to perform cataloging work and patron services
  • Monitor reading room according to archival handling best practices to protect materials

    • Assistant Registrar

    Philbrook Museum of Art

  • Manage the museum’s outgoing art loans including requests, documentation, loan agreements and addendums, review facility reports, and create an outgoing loan calendar
  • Supervise the installation and deinstallation of special exhibitions
  • Conduct condition reports on incoming and outgoing art objects
  • Create and manage accession records for new art acquisitions on The Museum System (TMS)

    • School and Community Engagement Fellow

    Philbrook Museum of Art

  • Develop curriculum and conduct program evaluation for the Any Given Child Program providing museum tours to over 2000 students
  • Provide community outreach to promote our tour offerings
  • Develop programming to support public school teachers including art supply giveaways
  • Conduct decorative arts research to develop associated docent training curriculum
  • Research museums programs of similar scale

    • Research Assistant and Curator

    Utah State University GeoScience College

  • Conduct archival research and design a digital exhibit for the LaVell Cooley photography collection
  • Present research to university faculty at the GeoSciences Awards

    • Collections and Curatorial Intern

    Hyrum City Museum

  • Curate a permanent exhibit on the history of Hyrum’s main street
  • Conserve a 48-star flag using proper textile conservation techniques
  • Develop educational programming for Earth Day
  • Conduct an inventory and rehouse Utah Daughters of the Pioneers collection
  • Accession and clean incoming objects