kimboo york

225 E. 7th Ave., Tallahassee, FL 32303

(850) 524-1842

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Education

 

Florida State University, School of Library and Information Studies

MLIS

 (expected) Fall, 2012

Concentration: Information Technology
Certification in Museum Studies
Certification in History of Text Technologies: Rare Books

New College of Florida

B.A. (anthropology)

1992

Thesis: “The Reel Picture: Gender and the Analysis of Ethnographic Film”

 

Related Experience

 

Student Disability Resource Center-Florida State University

 

Alt-text technician

Handles digitization of textbooks and related academic materials to be used with specialized software designed for individual with print disabilities.

2011 - Present

 

Citizens Property Insurance

Supervisor

Worked in corporate mailroom overseeing document handling, including scanning and database management.

2005 - 2007

Internships/volunteer

 

National Park Service, Southeast Archaeology Center (FL)

 

Volunteer

Functions as staff librarian to onsite library, assisting in collection management and acquisitions.

2010 - Present

 

Ca'd'Zan Mansion at Ringling Museum

 

Intern

Worked directly with historic house museum curator to catalogue furniture collection and do basic archive management, along with primary source research to assist scholars.

1991

 

National Park Service, Saugus Iron Works (MA)

1990

 

Intern

Summer internship working as a park ranger at the historic living museum. Gave tours, assisted curator in developing exhibits, worked in site gift shop.

 

 

Memberships

 

·     Florida Library Association

·     Bibliographic Society of America

·     American Library Association

·     Special Libraries Association

OTHER ACTIVITIES

 

·     Member, Embroidery Guild of America

·     Bicycling enthusiast

·     Regular blogger on information science topics

·     Wrote and published a book on grief and mourning issues, Grieving Futures: Surviving the Deaths of My Parents, My Home and My Future, available at Amazon and Smashwords.

·     Wrote and published a pamphlet on the aphorisms of Machiavelli, A Princely Primer, available as a PDF download at my website.