Rory Harkleroad

- Communicates with external partners and patrons in acquiring new materials
- Assists Access Services team in coordinating purchases
- Verifies research materials for use
- Creates and processes metadata for digitization
- Trains part-time staff in digitization
- Received training in project management for digital libraries

- Conducted research on recent environmental legislation for nonprofit partners

- Designed pamphlets for different partner audiences around legislation

- Identified and compiled new potential partners for outreach

- Recorded and analyzed energy use data in Excel and R

- Presented proposals to changes in energy use in campus laboratories

- Facilitated a competition between laboratories to reduce energy consumption

- Established critical thinking skills in a team-based setting while experimenting with leadership roles to complete service projects

- Participated in federal front-line emergency aid during the pandemic

- Lead conversations around the contexts of service learning and understanding community

- Coordinated independent projects and led groups of volunteers

- Photographed and recorded objects using TMS
- Created conservation reports on smaller collections
- Audited descriptive and preservation metadata for collection materials
- Received art handling and object-oriented collections training

- Prepared materials for collections review and auditing

- Digitized historic documents from the UK ACT UP movement

- Took photographs of archival materials and conducted post-processing

- Assisted in event set-up and promotion

- Attended to gallery patrons and provided information on the exhibitions
- Wrote recommendations in improving exhibition experience and functionality