Please join QCSAA for a careers panel discussion and Q&A! Our archivist speakers will share advice and tips for resume building, cover letter writing, and the job interview process. Our speakers come from varied areas of the field including public library, corporate, and radio archives. Each brings experience not only in successfully applying to archives-related jobs but also in hiring for those positions. See below for more speaker information! This event will help GSLIS students learn more about the range of positions in the archives field, and how to prepare themselves for applying to jobs. Taking place on November 30^th at 7:00 PM through Zoom. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/qcsaajobapp

Speakers:

Natalie Milbrodt leads Queens Library’s Metadata Services division, responsible for cataloging and digitizing the library’s collections. In 2010, Milbrodt developed the Queens Memory program to collect images and stories from residents for the library’s digital archives. Milbrodt graduated in 2000 from Michigan State University with a BA in Interdisciplinary Humanities and a Specialization in Film Studies. Before joining the library profession, she worked for film production, design, and marketing firms in both creative and management roles. Milbrodt serves on the Oral History Association’s Metadata Task Force and as an advisory board member for New York State Archives.

Marcos Sueiro Bal is the Archives Manager at New York Public Radio. Marcos is a member of the technical committees of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) and the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) and was part of the Collection Management Task Force that drafted the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan in 2012. In 2011 he co-translated the definitive text on audio preservation, IASA's Guidelines for the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects. He is a member of the Standards Committee of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and has taught Audio Preservation at Long Island University's Palmer School of Library Science. In 2011 he mastered and restored Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, and in 2008 was nominated for a Grammy for his work on Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette. Marcos has worked at the Alan Lomax Archives, Columbia University Libraries (where he developed AVDb, a preservation prioritization tool), the Center for Black Music Research, Masterdisk mastering studios, and Emory University.

Kerri Anne Burke is the Global Curator of the Citi Heritage Collection and has been with Citigroup since 2010. She is responsible for the use and care of the collection as well as building the collection, which dates from 1812 to the present. She is a graduate of Long Island University’s Palmer School of Library and Information Science with a Master’s of Library and Information Science and an Advanced Certificate in Archives and Records Management. Previous archival experience includes The Winthrop Group, The New York Historical Society, NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.