Skills
- More than fifteen years’ experience in information access
- Excellent writing and communication skills, including copyediting, proofreading, and bibliographies
- Cindex indexing software, HTML/XHTML, CSS, social media, Microsoft and Apple platforms
- Transcription
- In-person, phone and e-mail in public and archival libraries
- Original and copy cataloging, familiar with RDA, AACR2r, Dublin Core, and MARC21 records
- Hiring, motivating and managing teams of employees
Indexing Experience
- Managing Partner, Potomac Indexing, LLC
- Professionally prepare indexes that are comprehensive, accurate, and delivered on time to any specifications
- Subjects indexed include history, military and current affairs, self-help, writing guides, and computers
- Prepare back-of-the-book indexes for scholarly and general interest books, textbooks, and journals
- Recent subjects indexed comparative politics, Islamic jurisprudence, and economics.
Professional Activities
- President and Immediate Past President, American Society for Indexing (ASI)
- Director, Board of Directors
- Chair, ASI History and Archaeology Special Interest Group
- Course Administrator, ASI Training in Indexing
- Committee member, ASI Training in Indexing
- Chair-elect and Chair, Mid- and South-Atlantic chapter, ASI
- Volunteer proofreader, ASI’s member publication, Key Words
- ASI member
- American Library Association member
- Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators member
Education
- University of North Carolina-Greensboro, School Media Specialist Licensure, May 2020
- ASI Online Learning, Embedded Indexing in InDesign, 2016
- ASI continuing education, 2012-present
- ASI Training in Indexing course, 2012
- Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science Periodical/Database Indexing Workshop, 2012
- Texas Library Association continuing education, 2007-2009
- University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN MS, Information Science, May 2008
- Rice University Houston, TX BA, History, May 2003
Library and Project Management Experience
- Potomac Indexing, LLC Associate Indexer, 2016-present, Managing Partner, 2016-2018
Project management, management of associate indexers, indexing, database indexing - Quotabelle.com Outreach + Ethics, 2013-2015
PR, marketing, research, writing, editing, metadata, training, product development, website testing - Harker Heights Public Library, Harker Heights, TX Reference Librarian, 2009
Cataloging, nonfiction purchasing, reference, instruction, reader’s advisory - Harker Heights Public Library, Harker Heights, TX Library Clerk, 2007-2009
Cataloging, nonfiction purchasing, reference, instruction, reader’s advisory - Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library, Clarksville, TN Reference/Genealogy Assistant, 2006
Reference, genealogy indexing, instruction - Vanderbilt University Special Collections, Nashville, TN Library Asst./Manuscripts Intern, 2005-2006
Manuscript processing, online exhibit, reference, photographic metadata - Muscular Dystrophy Association (Tenn.), Program Coordinator, 2003-2004
Project management, PR, budget administration, staff and volunteer supervision - Rice University Fondren Library (Tex.), 2002-2003
Circulation, patron assistance
Publications
- Brawley, Meghan Miller. 2005. Catalysts for change: librarians and the Open Access movement. M. Halbert (Ed.). Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium Proceedings. Atlanta, Georgia: MetaScholar Initiative at Emory University, October 14, 2005. 82-92.
- Miller, Meghan. 2001. Walking through technology on air: Prof’s show simplifies the complex. Dallas Morning News. January 1. 27A