Personal Informations | |
| Name | Christine Oliveira de Chaves |
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| dechaves@fas.harvard.edu | |
| Desired employment/Occupational field | ICCROM Documentation Centre Intern |
Work Experience | |
| Date (from - to) | 30 july 2004 - ongoing.. |
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| Name and address of employer | Harvard College Library Technical Services - Cambridge, MA |
| Type of business or sector | Academic Library |
| Occupation or position held | Bibliographic Assistant |
| Main activities and responsibilities | -Supports the Librarian for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal through ordering, acquisitions, and cataloguing of foreign language monographs, including Basque, Galician, Catalan, and native South and Central American languages. -Performs detailed searches of OCLC and RLIN databases for vendor and member copy, editing and creating records as needed to meet Harvard and AACRII bibliographic standards. -Enters and maintains authority records in library databases. -Checks for accuracy and missing items and performs corrective actions when necessary. -Reviews received items for conservation services, recommending treatment as needed for brittle materials, phase boxing, binding repair, or replacement. |
| Date (from - to) | 14 november 2003 - 01 july 2004 |
| Name and address of employer | Harvard University, Houghton Library - Cambridge, MA |
| Type of business or sector | Academic Library |
| Occupation or position held | Library Digitization Initiative Assistant |
| Main activities and responsibilities | -Reviewed manuscript collections and composed concise descriptions of their contents and applied these descriptions to MARC records in RLIN. -Provided paleographic transcription and translation of French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian texts -Edited MARC record subject fields based upon collection descriptions developed upon reviewing partially accessioned collections. -Created EAD documents in SGML/XML for extant paper finding aids and edited those returned from vendors needing corrections. |
| Date (from - to) | 04 september 2003 - 01 may 2004 |
| Name and address of employer | Newton Free Library |
| Type of business or sector | Public Library |
| Occupation or position held | Special Collections Assistant |
| Main activities and responsibilities | -Processed a collection of photographs and negatives from the Newton Collection spanning the city’s history from 1900 to the present, writing preservation treatment plans for fragile or damaged items. -Created a database and a finding aid to organize the collection and to provide access to library staff and patrons. -Enabled the collection to be properly stored and preserved by initiating a digitization project allowing the images to be viewed via internet. |
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Education and Training | |
| Date (from - to) | 09 september 2003 - 19 may 2006 |
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| Name and type of organisation providing education and training | Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Principal subjects/occupational skills covered | Master of Science in Library and Information Science / Archives Management |
| Date (from - to) | 27 september 2001 - 15 december 2002 |
| Name and type of organisation providing education and training | University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK |
| Principal subjects/occupational skills covered | Master of Science in Medieval and Renaissance Studies |
| Thesis or final work | Boethius's Consolatio in Le Roman de la Rose and La Remede de Fortune |
| Date (from - to) | 03 september 1995 - 23 may 1999 |
| Name and type of organisation providing education and training | Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Principal subjects/occupational skills covered | Bachelor of Arts in History, Graduated Magna cum Laude |
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Personal Skills and Competences | |
| Mother tongue(s) | English |
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| Other language/s | (Self-assessment) |
| Language | French |
| Listening | Independent user B1 |
| Reading | Proficient user C2 |
| Understanding | Independent user B2 |
| Spoken interaction | Independent user B1 |
| Spoken production | Independent user B1 |
| Language | Italian |
| Listening | Independent user B1 |
| Reading | Independent user B2 |
| Understanding | Basic user A1 |
| Spoken interaction | Basic user A1 |
| Spoken production | Basic user A1 |
| Language | Latin |
| Listening | Basic user A2 |
| Reading | Basic user A2 |
| Understanding | Basic user A2 |
| Spoken interaction | Basic user A2 |
| Spoken production | Basic user A2 |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Listening | Proficient user C2 |
| Reading | Proficient user C2 |
| Understanding | Proficient user C2 |
| Spoken interaction | Proficient user C2 |
| Spoken production | Proficient user C2 |
| Language | Spanish |
| Listening | Independent user B1 |
| Reading | Proficient user C2 |
| Understanding | Independent user B1 |
| Spoken interaction | Independent user B1 |
| Spoken production | Independent user B1 |
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| Technical skills and competences | Coursework in: -Database Management -Archival Methods and Services -Photo Archives -Basic Materials Repair -Archival Access and Use -Preservation Management -Cataloguing |
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| Computer skills and competences | AACRII, MARC, SGML, XML, HTML and DIALOGUE. MySQL, Access, Lotus, Oracle and Excel. |
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