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- 1. 342 BOND ST, APT. 3B BROOKLYN, NY 11231 CURRICULUM VITAE SIÂN EVANS T: (516) 672-8862 E: SIAN.K.EVANS@GMAIL.COM OVERVIEW Published librarian with 4+ years’ experience impacting learning communities via library information systems and providing high-quality, up–to–date database resources. Incorporated product management savvy to support the implementation of a multimedia management system on an institutional basis and market the software broadly. Utilized comfort with metadata, instruction, and technology to implement Shared Shelf on over 35 campuses in the US and Canada. Conducted research and published articles on issues around open access and digital humanities. Co-organized an international Wikipedia edit-a-thon that was covered in over 40 publications such as The Guardian, ARTnews, and LA Weekly and for which was named among Foreign Policy Magazine’s Leading Global Thinkers, 2014. RELEVANT SKILLS AND TRAINING Integrated Instruction / Teaching | Reference/Information Desk Services | Activity Planning | Collection Development | Committee Involvement | Staff Oversight | Cross–Function Collaboration | Marketing | Account Oversight | Copyright Policy | Library of Congress Authorities | Getty Authorities | Metadata Management –Dublin Core, VRA Core and PB Core | Talisma CRM | Lyris List Manager | Adobe Captivate | HTML & CSS | Wiki and Wikipedia Editing | Fluent in French | Reading knowledge of Latin and Italian EDUCATION MSLIS Pratt Institute, New York, NY 2012 Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship MA University of Western Ontario, London, ON; Art History 2007 International Graduate Student Scholarship Department of Visual Arts Travel Grant BA McGill University (First Class Honours), Montreal, QC; Art History 2005 Paula Bonato Memorial Prize James McGill Award Hope Barrington Scholarship Senator Phillips Lazarus Scholarship in Art History
- 2. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ARTSTOR 2010-PRESENT 2014-PRESENT SR. IMPLEMENTATION MANAGER 2013-2014 IMPLEMENTATION MANAGER 2012-2013 SENIOR LIBRARY RELATIONS ASSOCIATE 2010-2012 LIBRARY RELATIONS ASSOCIATE Manage customer relationships with over 35 institutions, from Rice University to the CUNY system. Design and conduct online and video recorded trainings of Shared Shelf’s cataloging and media management tools. Bolster affiliated unit knowledge by conducting internal training and providing communications. Manage data migration for web-based service via mapping/crosswalk of legacy data to schema, partnering with database team. Lead presentations and facilitate meetings with key stakeholders such as acquisitions librarians, university librarians, and CIOs. Manage project to develop the plugin for open source CMS, Omeka, collaborating with George Mason University, where Omeka was developed. Coordinated outreach for Shared Shelf to prospective institutions in the United States and internationally & represented ARTstor at international conferences, such as ARLIS/UK & Ireland and IFLA as well as domestic conferences, such as ARLIS/NA, ACRL, CAA and FATE/MACAA. Discover and report bugs and enhancements, partering with the Quality Assurance team to improve the Shared Shelf software. Executed licensing for the ARTstor Digital Library and Shared Shelf. Drew up fee estimates for Shared Shelf and liaised with the User Services and Legal teams in the set-up of institutional access to both the ARTstor Digital Library and Shared Shelf. Prepare and conduct training for new employees in multiple internal systems and software; manage Strategic Services Assistant in implementation of new subscribers to Shared Shelf. NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN SEPT-DEC 2011 LIBRARY INTERN Designed a policies and procedures guide for NYSID Library’s staff. Aided in the reclassification of NYSID Library’s collection from the Dewey Decimal System to Library of Congress. Handled in-person and IM reference questions. Designed and conducted staff instruction for the ARTstor Digital Library. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART APRIL–AUG 2010 ACQUISITIONS INTERN Coordinated research and mailing campaign to solicit contemporary catalogs from Canadian art galleries. Searched book lists and suggested purchases.
- 3. FORBES NEWSLETTERS 2007-2010 MARKETING ASSOCIATE Wrote, edited and formatted Art Watch, an online publication on fine art and collectibles, which reached over 30,000 subscribers on a bi- weekly basis. Reported on and analyzed eight weekly e-letter sends to evaluate the success of e-letter business. Managed advertising sales revenue, invoices, and billing. Oversaw Forbes Newsletters’ relationship with customer service providers, streamlining their service and handling various escalations. UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO 2005-2007 TEACHING ASSISTANT VISUAL ARTS HISTORY : EARLY MEDIEVAL ART; HISTORY OF WESTERN ART AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY Organized study groups and library/online research seminars. Graded and edited undergraduate essays and exams. Met with students to discuss course and individual progress. Prepared and delivered weekly tutorials on the history of Western art and contemporary theory. Developed a curriculum based on assigned readings in the history of art theory with the objective of enhancing students’ critical and theoretical skills as well as their historical knowledge. UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO 2006 RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MADELEINE LENNON AND KATHRYN BRUSH Compiled bibliographic information in support of forthcoming publications on Giovanni Morelli and Romanesque sculpture. Conducted online and journal research; prepared weekly annotated bibliographies. PUBLICATIONS “‘Why Archive?’ And Other Important Questions Asked by Occupiers.” Co-written with Anna Perricci and Amy Roberts. In Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond (An Edited Collection), ed. Melissa Morrone, 2014. “Alternative Access Models: Enhancing the Discoverability of Small Press and Avant-Garde Art Journals.” Co-written with Amy Ballmer. In Art Documentation, 32:1, p. 33-42.
- 4. “Discovering Open Access Art History: A Comparative Study of the Indexing of Open Access Art Journals.” Co-written with Hilary Thompson and Alex Watkins. In The Serials Librarian. 61:2, p. 168-188. CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA/PRESENTATIONS “Art+Feminism and the Gendered Archive,” Co-presentation with Jacqueline Mabey. Revising Revisionism Symposium, Brooklyn Museum, 17 May, 2015 (Invited Speaker) “The Big Picture: Visualizing Data in Your Visual Resources Collections,” Co-presentation with Erin McCall. VRA 2015, Denver, 11-14 March, 2015 (Refereed Conference) “Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thons,” Co-presentation with Jacqueline Mabey and Michael Mandiberg. WikiConferenceUSA, New York, 1-4 May, 2014 (Refereed Conference) “Collaborative Projects in Open Access: Enhancing the Discovery of Your Collections via the Digital Public Library of America,” Co-moderator with Ian McDermott. ARLiS/NA 2014, Washington DC, 1-4 May, 2014 (Refereed Conference) “Collaborative Cataloging,” Co-moderator with Amy Ballmer. Electronic Resources & Libraries, The CUNY Graduate Center, 116-19 Mar, 2014 (Refereed Conference) “Shared Shelf Workshop: Cataloging Performing Arts.” THATCamp Performing Arts 2013, The CUNY Graduate Center, 21 June, 2013 “Occupy the Archive: Occupy the archive: Reimagining power, politics, and the collective voice in contemporary art.” InterPLAY Between Creativity and Information, York University, 26 March, 2012 (Refereed Conference) “Mythologizing Meyer: Medieval, Modern, and Postmodern in Meyer Schapiro.” Neomedievalisms, 22nd International Conference on Medievalism, University of Western Ontario, 4-6 Oct, 2007 (Refereed Conference) “The Book of Kells’ Sacred Serpents: The Margins of (Early) Medieval Art.”
- 5. Medieval Visual Environments and their Reception, Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, University of Guelph, 9-10 Mar, 2007 (Refereed Conference) “Collective Identity and Collective Amnesia: The Case of Josef Strzygowksi and German Art Historiography.” Graduate Student Conference, Drawing a Blank, Depts. of Theory and Criticism, Spanish and Comparative Literature, The University of Western Ontario, 22-24 Mar, 2007 (Refereed Conference) “The Book of Kells’ Sacred Serpents: The Margins of (Early) Medieval Art.” Graduate Student Conference, Context and Meaning IV, Dept. of Art History, Queen’s University, 26-27 Jan, 2007 (Refereed Conference) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 2010-PRESENT Member, ARLIS/NA and ARLIS NY 2013-2015 Coordinator for Women and the Arts Special Interest Group, ARLIS/NA 2011-PRESENT Member, VRA 2014-PRESENT Co-organizer, international Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon Named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s 2014 Leading Global Thinkers Recipient of two Wikimedia Foundation grants (IEG and PEG) 342 BOND STREET, APT 3B| BROOKLYN, NY 112231 | T: (516) 672-8862 | E: SIAN.K.EVANS@GMAIL.COM