Amanda Piegza

Current

Institutional Repository and Digital Collections Librarian at Missouri University of Science and Technology

Past

Digital Initiatives Research Assistant at Ruth Lilly Medical Library - IUPUI
Reference Administrative Aide at Tippecanoe County Public Library
Digitization Intern at Ruth Lilly Medical Library - IUPUI

Store Manager at Misc

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Education

Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
Purdue University

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Amanda Piegza’s Summary

My current position is to head Missouri S&T's institutional repository (Scholars' Mine). Although most of the 'basics' are in place (platform, applications for contribution, etc) it is still a work-in-progress as we aim to create a way to have our Federated search (through Ex Libris) search the repository, feed out our metadata to Google Scholar, as well as other endeavors. My other duties include digitizing university publications such as the yearbook, alumni magazine, etc and finding an appropriate platform for that digital content. I am currently teamed up with the Yearbook committee to work on digitizing the RollaMOs.

**Colleagues, feel free to add me, no matter what area of librarianship you're in! However, I will not recommend, nor accept a recommendation from, anyone I haven't worked with personally.***

*Experience in digital archiving and database creation and management and work with a few digital repositories. Platforms: Dspace, Documentum, and ContentDM.

*Advanced copyright knowledge, specifically regarding self-archiving, and have created a database of publisher policies.

*Experience with XHTML, CSS, XML, teaching information literacy classes, and more.

Amanda Piegza’s Specialties:

Digitizing experience and knowledge of best practices; coding HTML; XHTML (CSS); intermediate Spanish language skills; cataloging (DCQ metadata and MARC -spanish and english), experience with SIRSI, OCLC, and database management and navigation; Experience with Dspace and ContentDM; advanced public speaking; adherence to copyright law and policies; grant writing; event planning in a variety of contexts.

Amanda Piegza’s Experience

Institutional Repository and Digital Collections Librarian

Missouri University of Science and Technology

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Running the university's Institutional Repository, Scholars' Mine (http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/index.html). It is Documentum-based, but most applications and editors were created 'from scratch' through joint efforts between the librarians and IT applications team. This IR holds scholarly publications, ETDs, and will hold grey literature, data sets, patent information, and more in the future.

If you have any questions about self-archiving copyright, digitization, or DCQ metadata, feel free to ask!
Digital Initiatives Research Assistant

Ruth Lilly Medical Library - IUPUI

(Libraries industry)

September 2007 — January 2008 (5 months)

Co-manager and lead Research Assistant of the InPub digital project for IUPUI's IDeA (an open access digital archive powered by dspace) as well as digital submission to ContentDM.

This project consists of digitizing early 20th century medical archives (high quality scanning, image restoration, OCR, and metadata assignment with several different controlled vocabularies) and creating the best practices for digitization for a publication.
Reference Administrative Aide

Tippecanoe County Public Library

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Libraries industry)

February 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 8 months)

Direct library patrons to information sources; aid patrons and staff with computers and other machinery as well as troubleshooting; assistant to the Head Reference Librarian; delegate to and supervise departmental aides; genealogical research; website maintenance and design; teaching of computer classes; cataloging; program creation and planning; creation of promotional material and brochures.
Digitization Intern

Ruth Lilly Medical Library - IUPUI

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)

Digitization of archived medical documents including scanning, editing, and optical character recognition (OCR) as well as indexing.
Store Manager

Misc

(Libraries industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

Prior to my library career, I was a Store Manager at two locations. As the head of all store operations, I learned many valuable skills (supervision, budgeting, etc) that I have transferred to my current line of work.

Amanda Piegza’s Education

Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis

Master's , MLS, Library and Information Science , 2006 — 2008

-->With a focus on digital librarianship
Purdue University

B.A. , Psychological Sciences , 2000 — 2004

Research Assistant in Psychology May 2003 - May 2004
Research Assistant in Sociology May 2003 - December 2003
Minors in English and Sociology

Activities and Societies:

Charter member and President of Purdue SFT