kimboo york
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225 E. 7th Ave., Tallahassee, FL 32303 (850) 524-1842 kimboosan@gmail.com |
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Education
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Florida State
University, School of Library and Information Studies
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MLIS |
Summer, 2012 |
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Concentration: History of Text Technologies-Rare Books |
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New College of
Florida
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B.A. (anthropology) |
1992 |
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Thesis: “The Reel Picture: Gender and the Analysis of Ethnographic Film” |
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Related Experience
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Claude Pepper
Library at FSU
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Assistant Archivist
Works with the library supervisor to process and manage the various collections the library contains. Handles project management of incoming collections and oversight of fellow assistants and interns. |
2011 -
Present
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Student
Disability Resource Center-Florida State University
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Alt-text Team Leader (AT Lab) Handles
digitization of textbooks and related academic materials to be used with
specialized software designed for individual with print disabilities. Worked as the project manager for SharePoint development and
implementation. |
2011 -
Present
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Citizens Property
Insurance
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Supervisor Worked in corporate mailroom overseeing document handling, including scanning and database management for large digitization project. |
2005 - 2007 |
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Internships/volunteer
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National Park Service, Southeast
Archaeology Center (FL) |
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Volunteer Functions as staff librarian to onsite library, assisting in collection management and acquisitions. |
2010 - 2012 |
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Ca'd'Zan Mansion at Ringling Museum |
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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 |
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National Park Service, Saugus Iron Works (MA) |
1990 |
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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. |
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Professional presentations
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Florida State University’s Center For Everyday Writing Everyday Writing and What it Can Teach Us Co-Presenter: Curating Everyday Writing |
April, 2012 |
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Florida Society of Archivists Annual Conference Poster Presentation: Project Management in Archive Collection Processing |
May, 2012 |
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Association on Higher Education and Disability Annual Conference Co-Presenter: Exploring Microsoft SharePoint for Streamlining Alt Text Processes While Investigating Accessibility |
July, 2012 |
Memberships
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· Society of American Archivists · Bibliographic Society of America · Special Libraries Association · Florida Library Association · Society of Florida Archivists |
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OTHER ACTIVITIES |
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· Bibliography (in progress) of the Victorian erotic novel, My Secret Life: http://mysectretlife.wikidot.com/ · Aca-fan · Blogger on information science topics: http://www.kimboosan.net/blog/ · 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. · Maintains a blog on grief and mourning issues http://www.patienceandfortitude.net |
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