Holly Phillips

• Build special collections identifying areas for enhancement including Artists of the Holocaust.
• Oversee large-scale project acquiring BIPOC material including African American and Native American art books. Manage team of volunteers and interns for special collecting projects.
• Promote newly acquired material through exhibitions, blogs and online presentations.
• Maintain special collections material workflow including invoice processing, identifying housing treatment and bookseller correspondence.

• Build special collecting areas including rare Latin American material and American Publishers' bindings from the 1830's-1930's resulting in the acquisition of over eight hundred fine bindings in four years; secure large donations including contemporary Latin American and Judaica collections; promote collection and encourage gift giving installing displays of major donations including contemporary Japanese ceramics and artists' books.
• Oversee Gifts program.
• Supervise Acquisitions volunteers.

• Accomplished major initiative selecting rare books with focus on singular volumes of great importance; widened the scope of special collections material establishing new resources and new vendor relationships; improved record keeping data for special purchase activity; collaborated with staff members on improving work-flows.
• Oversee Gifts program.
• Supervise Acquisitions volunteers.

• Direct special gifts project soliciting contemporary catalogs from galleries worldwide resulting in the acquisition of over 20,000 publications significantly enhancing Library's holdings on contemporary art.
• Supplement library's budget by coordinating the sale of duplicate gift material on a weekly basis by maintaining bookseller and vendor relationships.
• Select and place orders for rare material; establish and maintain new bookseller relationships, review quotations from book dealers.
• Improve effective work flow and develop documenting policies for incoming special collections material including identifying proper conservation and housing treatment insuring the accessibility of rare material to the public and timeliness of invoice processing.
• Invigorate outreach programs as regular contributor to museum library blog; lead tours and presentations for groups of scholars and students; attend Friends events and participate in the recruitment and stewardship of members.
• Promote library's collection designing vitrine displays which rotate every 3-6 months: conceive themes in consultation with Chief Librarian, select material, responsible for layout and label text.
• Oversee Gifts program.
• Supervise Acquisitions volunteers.

• Maintain auction catalogs database creating original records in Sales Catalog Inventory Project Input Online (SCIPIO) for all incoming auction catalogs received by Watson Library.
• Support library communications editing Chief Librarian's correspondence and press statements.
• Manage a team of twenty interns, Work-study students and volunteers in Acquisitions; responsible for the recruitment, hiring, orientation, training, distribution and monitoring of tasks and ongoing supervision.
• Oversee Gifts program.

• Promote accessibility of collection by processing temporary catalog records for Watson's newly acquired gift and exchange books.
• Prevent duplicate acquisition of material by conducting pre-order searches of vendor and antiquarian bookseller catalogs against library's online catalog.
• Execute all donor documentation preparing acknowledgement letters and trustee reports in a timely manner.

•Research, date and catalog costumes.

•Maintain collection inventory.

•Visit donor's homes to determine possible accession of costumes.

•Provide administrative support for fashion and beauty departments: responsible for the execution and filing of requisition forms, time sheets, correspondence and the scheduling of fashion shoots.

•Manage the trafficking of clothing and accessories, scout new resources, and attend market appointments, shows, and press events.

•Edit and proofread copy.