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Matthew Palmer

Nyack,New York

Summary

Library professional passionate about historical research and library work on Latin America. Capable of historical research and Iberian language library cataloging. Skilled in bilingual English-Spanish communication for outreach.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Vocabulary Review Project Coordinator /Editorial Assistant

University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
11.2023 - Current
  • Corresponded with indigenous communities and researched preferred community names.
  • Changed and created new indigenous subject headings in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index to reflect indigenous feedback.
  • Indexed digital journal articles in the HAPI system to make available to researchers.

Cataloging Assistant

Hispanic Society Museum and Library
New York, NY
10.2023 - Current
  • Catalogued Spanish and Portuguese language manuscripts and print sources from the colonial Philippines and nineteenth century Spain in the Rare Books division.
  • Assisted in digitization process of rare print materials.
  • Processed books using Mandarin M3 software and performed shelf-reading for the Modern Library.
  • Offered English-Spanish bilingual assistance to visiting researchers from Spain, Latin America, and the United States.

Education Office Intern

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Nyack, NY
05.2022 - 09.2022
  • Conducted historical research to aid in the creation of educational materials on American Indian foodways.
  • Gave bilingual historical facilitations in English and Spanish on
    indigenous history to museum visitors.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - History, Minor in Latin American Studies

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
05-2023

Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts-Humanities & Social Science

Rockland Community College
Suffern, NY
05-2021

Skills

  • Historical research
  • Library cataloging
  • Paleography
  • Metadata creation
  • Outreach
  • Adaptability
  • MS Office/Google Applications
  • Esri ArcGIS software
  • Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal System Classification knowledge
  • Procite Software
  • Mandarin M3 Software

Languages

Spanish
Full Professional
Portuguese
Elementary

Websites

Timeline

Vocabulary Review Project Coordinator /Editorial Assistant

University of California, Los Angeles
11.2023 - Current

Cataloging Assistant

Hispanic Society Museum and Library
10.2023 - Current

Education Office Intern

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
05.2022 - 09.2022

Bachelor of Arts - History, Minor in Latin American Studies

Johns Hopkins University

Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts-Humanities & Social Science

Rockland Community College

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