Jenel Farrell

Current

Digital Preservation Program Assistant at Minnesota Historical Society

Past

Producer - iTunes U site at American Public Media | Minnesota Public Radio
Rights Associate at National Public Radio
Special Assistant NDIIPP at Library of Congress

Librarian - Part Time at National Public Radio
Acquisitions Librarian - French Collection at Library of Congress
Acquisitions Librarian at Lawrence Public Library

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Education

Emporia State University
University of Kansas

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Industry

Information Services

Jenel Farrell’s Experience

Digital Preservation Program Assistant

Minnesota Historical Society

(Non-Profit; Museums and Institutions industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

We’re building a network of county historical societies with the object of helping them make their resources available online and federated those resources through MHS. I'm providing educational outreach and training to the societies, building data cross-walks and normalizing data sets.
Producer - iTunes U site

American Public Media | Minnesota Public Radio

(Broadcast Media industry)

July 2007 — April 2009 (1 year 10 months)

I repackaged, standardized, categorized, tagged and encoded hundreds of hours of content and then uploaded it into iTunes U. I helped the organization reach 50,000 people a month in this platform.
Rights Associate

National Public Radio

(Non-Profit; Broadcast Media industry)

February 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Provided outreach and assistance to individuals seeking permission to use NPR content (minimum of 30 requests per day). Tracked revenue and built relationships to improve and promote usage of content and increase revenue. Managed transcription business and worked as part of NPR.org's business development team. Created online newsletters with 100,000+ subscribers. Acquired all rights for content on NPR.org.
Special Assistant NDIIPP

Library of Congress

(Government Agency; Libraries industry)

October 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 5 months)

Provided executive assistance for the Office of Strategic Initiatives staff by maintaining contacts, researching, managing relationships, helping to manage digital preservation projects (NDIIPP), and tracking funding of projects. I helped implement a document management system and improved the organization of the department's content.
Librarian - Part Time

National Public Radio

(Non-Profit; Broadcast Media industry)

June 2003 — February 2006 (2 years 9 months)

Provided reference and research support in a fast-paced, national, newsroom using primary source material of all formats. Cataloged NPR content in Techlib utilizing the in-house built thesaurus.
Acquisitions Librarian - French Collection

Library of Congress

(Government Agency; Libraries industry)

October 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Acquired French language materials according to collection development policies. Created serial frequencies and cataloged electronic serials. Helped create and train staff to catalog electronic journals. Also provided acquisitions assistance for the Hungarian collection. Tracked spending and managed invoices.
Acquisitions Librarian

Lawrence Public Library

(Information Services industry)

June 2000 — May 2003 (3 years )

Worked with 22 bibliographers to build a collection that represented the demographics and needs of our community. Worked with finance to develop collection budgets. Cataloged materials in LC and Dewey. Created authority records. Tracked all invoices. Helped select a vendor and implement an acquisitions system.

Jenel Farrell’s Education

Emporia State University

Masters , Library and Information Science , 2000 — 2002

Author on the Institute for Museum and Library Services panel on the Future of Librarians in the Workforce.

Job Related Training:

Advanced Access II 7/2009
Advanced Access I 6/2009
Managing Projects 10/2005
Project Management for Administrators 10/2004
ILS Acquisitions Publication Patters Basic (V2000) 5/2004
ILS Acquisitions Publications Patterns: Intermediate 6/2004
Library of Congress Mentorship Program 2004
ILS Searching for Bibliographic Control Staff 10/2003
ILS Acquisitions Comprehensive 10/2003
ILS IBC Records for Acquisitions Staff 11/2003

Activities and Societies:

Beta Phi Mu International Library Science Honor Society
University of Kansas

BA , Linguistics , 1996 — 1998