IST 600 – Grant Writing: Identified sources for grant funding, prepared a budget, and wrote a grant proposal

IST 613 – Planning, Marketing, & Assessing Library Services: Gained practical experience in organizing an Oral History program for a local library.

IST 616 – Information Resources: Organization & Access: Developed a fundamental understanding of cataloging and metadata schemas.

IST 618 – Information Policy: Explored contemporary issues in the information field.

IST 681 – Metadata: Examined and implemented metadata standards, and developed application profiles to describe resource collections.

IST 624 – Preservation of Library & Archival Collections: Developed experience in archival preservation techniques through hands-on lab work.

IST 624 – Management & Organization of Archival Collections: Wrote a finding aid for a collection housed at SU’s Special Collections Research Center and encoded it in EAD.

IST 632 – Management & Organization of Special Collections: Studied history of publishing and bibliography as it relates to libraries’ special collections.

MUS 500 – Making History: Museums, Memory, and the Challenge of Interpreting the Past: Explored strategies for developing exhibits that balance critical historical analysis with popular accessibility.

MUS 506 – Introduction to Curatorship: Developed strategies for presenting and explaining objects through exhibitions.