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Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

  • Freelance Book Indexer, Editor, Abstract Writer, and Researcher
    (October 2021 - Present)

  • Orange County Library System, North Orange Branch: Librarian
    (July 2021 - September 2021)

  • Oman Library at the Middle East Institute: Head Librarian
    (January 2020 - July 2021)

  • Alexandria Library, Beatley Branch: Sunday Library Assistant I
    (April 2018 - December 2019)

  • National Security Archive: Indexing Librarian (DNSA)
    (April 2013 - December 2019)

  • Freelance Book Indexer: part-time
    (December 2012 - December 2019)

  • Slavic Reference Service/Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC): Undergraduate, Hourly, and Graduate Assistant
    (January 2008 - April 2013)

  • Main Library at UIUC: Undergraduate Worker
    (September - December 2007)

Education

Education

  • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign — MLIS, 2012

  • Ankara University, TÖMER Language Institute, Turkey — Summer 2011 (U.S. Department of State Critical Languages Scholarship Program)
    Turkish Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) score: Intermediate High

  • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign — BA, 2009
    Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences
    Major: International Studies; focus: Business Communication

  • University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain — Spring 2009
    Study Abroad program

Professional Development

American Society for Indexing (ASI) Webinars

• Taxonomy Consulting • Indexing Biographies • Embedded Indexing • Indexes Locorum • Indexing Arabic Names • Current and Future Trends for Publishing and Indexing • Indexing Theology and Philosophy • Special Event: What’s in a Name? • Indexing Geographic Place-Names • Indexing Art Books

Courses & Certifications

  • Certificate of Completion - ASI Training Course
    American Society for Indexing
    Issued: September 2022

  • Controlled Vocabularies and Taxonomies
    Henry Stewart Events
    Issued: March 2024

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Published Book Indexes

Created the Index and provided limited editorial feedback. Index previews are available via Amazon.

For a complete list of books I have indexed, please contact me or click the following links to see…

a complete list of books indexed in 2022;

a complete list of books indexed in 2023.


Articles & Papers

Authored articles:

  • “Launching a Freelance Indexing Business: More to Do than You’d Think,” Key Words: Journal of the American Society for Indexing 30 no.2 (Summer 2022): 11, https://www.asindexing.org/key-words/.

    • Geared toward new indexers; describes the decision-making and process behind establishing a small business; and includes some resource links.

Authored & presented papers:

  • BOBCATSSS Library Conference

    • 2012 - Amsterdam: “Turkey - Access to Government Information - A Case Study” (p. 195-200)

      • Reviews Turkish progress in developing e-government from 1993 to [2012] by examining various efforts and factors which have played an important role in the process; examines several options that will aid Turkey in eliminating technical, cultural, and fiscal barriers in order to provide a greater number of its citizens with access to government information.

    • 2013 - Ankara: “Deferred Processing: A Case Study Involving the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Library Backlog at UIUC” (p. 23-27)
      http://euclid-lis.eu/publications/bobbcatsss-proceedings/

      • Examines the workflow of the Slavic collection backlog reduction project at the UIUC library, and some of the challenges faced when processing materials in different alphabets that may be several decades old and from uncommon publishers. Consideration is given to libraries' ethical obligation to provide information to users and the possibilities of involving digitization of materials as part of the backlog reduction workflow.

Affiliations

American Society for Indexing (ASI)

ACES: The society for editing

Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA)

Middle East Librarians Association (MELA)

Other Publications

Blog & Substack posts

Indexed & abstracted, declassified government documents published in Digital National Security Archive (DNSA); 2013 - 2019 (a ProQuest database)

  • 2013: Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013 & The CIA Family Jewels.

  • 2014: The United States and the Two Koreas (1969-2000) & Electronic Surveillance and the National Security Agency: From Shamrock to Snowden.

  • 2015: Nuclear History II, 1969-1976.

  • 2016: Kissinger Conversations: Supplement II,1969-1977 & The President's Daily Brief: Kennedy, Johnson, and the CIA, 1961–1969.

  • 2017: Targeting Iraq, Part I: 1997-2004 & Cuba-United States Dialogue, 1959-2016.

  • 2018: CIA Covert Operations III: From Kennedy to Nixon, 1961-1974 & Soviet-U.S. Relations: The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991.

  • 2019: Nuclear Nonproliferation 2, Part I: From Atoms for Peace to the NPT, 1954-1968 & Iran-U.S. Relations: 1977-Present.

Research and Resource Guides

Memberships

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Abstracting, Editing, & Writing Services