Julie Bartlett Nelson

• Administer the only Presidential Library in a public library consisting of manuscripts, photographs, and artifacts related to the personal and political life of President Calvin Coolidge.
• Public programming, speaking, teaching, and outreach to students, teachers, researchers, and community groups locally and nationally both in person and via online platforms.
• Maintains Coolidge Museum social media and website.
• Coordinates the Coolidge Standing Committee under the library board of trustees adhering to open public meeting laws and consisting of up to 20 volunteers and 5 subcommittees focused on development, marketing, programming, exhibits, and nominating.
• Created and maintained a Past Perfect database for manuscripts and photographs and virtual exhibits in Omeka and migrated both to Argus in 2022.
• Recent projects include reparative cataloging language, updating subject headings and identifying first and maiden names of women in records, and NAGPRA compliance.
• 2004-2023 also oversaw the Local History and Genealogy collections including collection development, processing, digitizing, outreach and reference. Regular shifts on general reference desk and participation in programming, department heads, social media, strategic planning committees.
• Supervision of volunteers, interns, work-study students and part time librarians and working with multiple boards and committees.

• Process and index materials produced by and related to the history of the college.
• Created displays and exhibits and contributed to library's online resources.
• Collaborated with offices and staff across campus to collect records, document college activities and answer inquiries.
• Worked with development and alumni offices on celebrations, anniversaries, milestones and research.
• Provided coverage of reference desk answering general inquiries from students and faculty locating materials and taught bibliographic instruction classes in humanities and nursing.
• Supervised work-study students.

• Managed and maintained a special collection, manuscript and visual resource library in an outdoor living history museum. Collection served staff and museum programs and was open to the public.
• Duties included: reference, acquisitions, collection development, cataloging and preservation. Supervision of one half-time assistant and volunteers.

• Copy and original cataloging of print and non-print materials according to LC, MARC21, OCLC and AACR2r formats and standards authority file maintenance, bibliographic maintenance and inventory.
• Collaborated with faculty and staff on projects in specialty libraries of music, science, religion, foreign languages and rare books.
• Kept up-to-date records of materials, maintained inventory and corrected cataloging errors.

Searching OCLC and copy cataloging according to LC MARC and AACR2 formats and standards, data entry, creating and filing shelf list cards, bibliographic maintenance, and inventory.

Filing, shelving, and processing books, periodicals, and interlibrary loans. Assisted in archival processing and indexing projects in the College History Room and the Maine Women Writers Collection.