Staff, manage and lead libraries and information organizations of all types.

• Management and Leadership in Archives
  • An essay about how, as an archivist, I intend to enact managerial and leadership duties. As a manager, I will implement open communication, detailed agendas, careful planning, and patience. As a leader, I will stay abreast of current trends, learn new technologies, and create unique solutions.
• Security, Access, and Digitization
  • Research paper that explores how high-quality digitization can provide greater access, and reduces the handling of original materials. In addition, careful metadata entries that mark every change to the image that establishes indisputable evidence of ownership.
• Security Plan
  • Written as a memorandum to the library director, this paper explores what actions would need to be taken in the event of the theft of a rare 16th century map from the collection, including the notification of appropriate authorities and professional organizations, reorganization of the reading to room to provide staff with greater visibility of users, and creating stricter security measures before and after a user handles material.
• Disaster Plan
  • An action plan that addresses a hypothetical HVAC flood that threatens collection material stored in the basement. After identifying the immediate actions required, I provide two scenarios: one where material gets wet, and the next steps need to be taken to preserve and restore materials; and a second where the material is spared, but it is discovered that the disaster plan was very out of date, and how I would go about updating it.