Denise Groll

127 Holmes Street

Barnesville, GA 30204

   cell: (802) 233-9137

  email: denisegroll@gmail.com

 

 

EDUCATION:  

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University of Oklahoma |Norman, OK

 

MLIS, Concentration in Archival Studies

 

Coursework included Preservation, Archival Presentation, Documents and Records Management, Management of Information and Knowledge Organization, and Cataloging and Classification.

 

Saint Michael’s College | Colchester, VT

 

B.A. in History, magna cum laude                               

 

Champlain College | Burlington, VT

 

A.S in Marketing and Retail Management

    

EXPERIENCE:

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The HistoryMakers  | Chicago, IL (remote)                                               August 2021 – February 2022

Video Oral History Processor/Publisher

 

• Watched the assigned interviews in The HistoryMakers Video Oral History Collection and proofreading transcripts.

 

• Audit/editing the assigned interviews and dividing the interviews with chapter headings to provide for easy access.

 

• Historical research and fact checking to support metadata created within transcript to make accessible to users.

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• Wrote abstracts for each 30 minutes videotaped section of the assigned interview.

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• Performed quality control testing on the assigned interviews and uploading them to digital archive.

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• Evaluated each assigned interview in accordance with guidelines and procedures.

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• Chose video clips and assigning clip titles that reflect the clip’s contents for website.

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Milner Community Library | Milner, GA                                                     February 2020 – July 2021

Director / Librarian

 

• Management of all operational aspects of a public services library and staff.

 

• Building and maintenance of the physical collection; including assessment, acquisitions, and establishment of unique collections to meet this community’s needs.

 

• Creating and delivering programming for adult, teens, and children.

 

• Established and maintain processes to ensure financial needs and responsibilities are met.  This includes budgeting, and fundraising.

 

• Assessed and improved procedures and protocols to improve the quality and turnaround time of services.

 

Hightower Library | Gordon State College| Barnesville, GA              August 2019 – November 2019  

Volunteer Processing Archivist                                                                               

 

• Survey collections that are donated, and gain understanding of context, size, and scope in anticipation of processing.

 

• Preserve and physically arrange collection in accordance to SAA principles, and in certain cases, creating an arrangement that provides the best access to collection as needed.

 

• Ascertain level of description needed for the depth of access predicted.

 

• Describe collection at chosen level using spreadsheets to manage metadata.

 

• Create finding aid from metadata to make collection accessible to the public

        on ArchivesSpace platform.

 

• Assist head archivist with troubleshooting and manually correcting mapping errors as

        a result of migration to ArchivesSpace platform.

 

Dick T. Morgan Project | University of Oklahoma | Norman, OK August 2019 – December 2019

Digital Archives Intern                                                                                   

 

• Learn the basic elements of the ArchiveSpace platform and gain an understanding of the informational elements that will be used when gathering description data at the item level.

 

• Describe documents, photographs, books, pamphlets, and other archives at the item level, and entering the metadata onto assigned spreadsheets for each box being processed.

 

• Add metadata to the Omeka platform using the key elements from the spreadsheets and attaching digitized images to make collection accessible to public.

 

 

Durick Library | Saint Michael’s College | Colchester, VT                     September 2007 – June 2019

Library and Information Services Support  / Assistant to Director of Durick Library                                              

• Provided support to the cataloging department as needed; included copy-cataloging, original cataloging, processing of physical items to be shelf ready; assisted in processing gift backlog.

 

• Assisted with archival projects including the processing of thousands of digital photographs, describing, proofing, and cataloging using ContentDM to make accessible to school website as well as for the Digital Public Library of America project.

 

• Worked at circulation desk aiding students and faculty including checking of materials, answering questions, assisting with hardware and software problems, as well as helping inter-library loan specialist with processing of materials and fulfilling requests.

 

• Provided support to Collections Management librarian to survey a large collection being donated to the library to accept, donate, and incorporate into the special collection.

 

• Collaborated with librarians to create activities and programs for student engagement.

 

• Contributor and co-creator of UX design project to improve usability of the library webpage design.

 

• Served on library strategic plan committee providing input on archival goals to better meet user needs; served on library exhibit committee creating display exhibits marking important historical dates and current events.

 

Essex Community Historical Society & Harriet Farnsworth Powell Museum | Essex, VT

Board member | Chair of Collections Committee | Archivist                    March 2014 – Present

 

• Serve as board member of Essex Community Historical Society assisting with programming for the public, community collaboration to support schools and library, raising awareness and support for historical society preservation projects of local landmarks, and working with other local historical societies to start dialogues on shared concerns and goals.

 

• Head collections committee of the historical society’s museum; committee was formed to address the collection’s continued preservation, accessions and deaccessions guidelines analysis, implementation of disaster plan, and assisted in writing proposal to Town of Essex for budget monies to purchase preservation supplies for optimum protection of collection.

 

• Perform archival duties for the museum which included accepting and processing of donations and historical documents by arranging, describing, and creating finding aids.  Preservation was performed as needed and to the best of ability with what resources available.

 

• Conduct museum collection inventory in August of 2018 to be completed in Summer of 2020; currently working remotely to continue the project which includes digitizing, describing, and cataloging to use as a reference point to improve the PastPerfect database for consistency and accuracy.

 

• Attend Town of Essex select board meetings to demonstrate support of ongoing efforts to preserve local landmarks, and to propose and gain approval of campaigns to raise money with support of town.

 

SKILLS:

 

• Four years of experience in public and academic library services including circulation, collection management, budget management, programming, cataloging, and archives.

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• Four years of experience identifying, arranging, describing, storing, and creating detailed finding aids in several collections including family documents, photography, books, and artifacts.

 

• Strong documentary, archival, and internet research skills.

 

• Over thirty years of administrative support experience in both academic and business environments, including an academic library. Duties included: budget and finance, purchasing, event planning, supervising work study students, student engagement, and executive assistance to director.

 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to work as a team member or independently, strong problem-solving and analytical skills, adaptable, dependable, and an empathetic listener.

 

• Five years of experience collaborating with registrar of Saint Michael’s College as a course and registration specialist; included document and records management of vital student records.

 

• Computer and internet proficient; software experience includes:

 

• Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Publisher, PowerPoint, and Access

• PastPerfect

• Adobe

• OCLC Connexion

• Voyager

• Content DM

• Web Design: Weebly, Wix, WordPress, HTML

• Cataloging: RDA Tool Kit, BestMARC

• Omeka web-publishing platform

• FileMaker archival platform

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MEMBERSHIPS:

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• Phi Alpha Theta – history honor society |2011 – Present

• Essex Community Historical Society |2014 – Present

• Society of American Archivists | 2019 – Present