Resume

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
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 processingonline 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