OBJECTIVE A continued commitment to the preservation, accessibility, and management of digital assets.
EXPERIENCE
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
3/19/2011 Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science, West South Hadley, MA • Workshop Instruction • Digitization Strategies, Technologies, and Practices
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
• Awarded the 2009 NITLE Technology Fellow in the area of digitization technologies • Lead the Digitization Strategies, Technologies, and Practices Workshop 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
• Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League, Martha Ackmann, Chicago Review Press, 2010 • Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions • By Susan R. Barry, Basic Books, 2010 • The Creighton years: Mount Holyoke College 1996-2010, Patricia VanderBerg, James Gehrt, Mount Holyoke College, 2010 • Icons of life: a cultural history of human embryos, University of California Press, 2009 • 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
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
SIMMONS COLLEGE, MLIS SPRING 2010 GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE • specialization in the Digital Library. EXPECTED GRADUATION 2015
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”
