I am currently the Archivist at Penn Law School in Philadelphia, PA.  I can be reached at jordon [dot] steele [at] gmail [dot] com.

education

iSchool, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Certificate of Advanced Study, 2009
Course of study: digital information.

Certified Archivist, 2008

School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
MS Library Science, 2005
Course of study: archives and special collections, information technology, information theory, art history.

Davidson College, Davidson, NC
BA English, 2002
Course of study: literature, cultural studies.

experience

Archivist, Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania Law School, April 2006-present.

    Oversee special collections department.
    Manage print and electronic records.
    Facilitate discovery of primary source content using content and communication metadata standards, including DACS and EAD.
    Acquire print, born-digital, and hybrid collections in accordance with collection development policy.
    Educate staff, students, faculty, and other constituents on effective information discovery and management.
    Manage digitization program.
    Administer oral history program.
    Provide reference service for on-site and remote users.
    Preserve rare books, archival collections, and digital information.
    Supervise work-study students and graduate interns.

Field Experience, Photographic Archives, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, September-December 2005.

    Converted HTML finding aids to archival metadata standard EAD.
    Assisted archivist in implementing descriptive standards for processing photographs.

Archives Intern, Tudor Place, Washington, DC, May-July 2005.

    Digitized photographs.
    Accessioned photographs.
    Entered information on photographs into collection management database.
    Assisted archivist in preservation and description of rare materials.

Graduate Assistant, Rare Books Collection, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, January-May 2005.

    Processed gift of approximately 5,000 comic books.
    Created database for comic book collection.

teaching

Adjunct Faculty Member, iSchool, Drexel University, September 2010-present.

    Teaching “Introduction to Archives I” as part of the Archival Studies Concentration.

committees and working groups

Member, Biddle Law Library Web Team, 2006-present.

Member, Non-MARC DLA Team, May 2009-February 2010.
The Non-MARC DLA Team was a collaborative effort among representatives in archives and manuscript repositories at the University of Pennsylvania to establish cross-repository metadata policy for participation in a an integrated discovery system for finding aids, which is powered by the Van Pelt Library’s Digital Library Architecture (DLA).

Chair, Small Emergency Procedures Committee, February-December 2009.

Member, Finding Aids Working Group, January-May 2008.
The Finding Aids Working Group included representatives from archives and manuscript repositories at the University of Pennsylvania. The goal was to create a system-wide union catalog of finding aids based on the coding standard Encoded Archival Description (EAD). The group also recommended tools to help Penn repositories easily incorporate EAD encoding into their shops’ daily workflow.

appointments and elected offices

Chair, Delaware Valley Archivists Group, January 2010-present.

Member-At-Large, Information Science and Technology Alumni Association, Drexel University, January 2010-present.

Webmaster, Academy of Certified Archivists, June 2008-August 2010.

Vice-Chair, Delaware Valley Archivists Group, January-December 2009.

presentations

Invited Talks, Lectures, and Symposia

Breakout Section Leader, “EAC-CPF: Moving Forward With Authority,” EAC-CPF Pre-conference, August 2010.

Presenter, “Surveying Law Student Technology, Learning Behaviors and Preferences,” CALIcon, June 2010.

Chair, Blogs in Academic Law Libraries Panel, Web 2.0 in Mid-Atlantic Academic Law Libraries Symposium, February 2009.

Chair, “Harnessing the Power of the Blog,” Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, November 2008.

Co-presenter, “The Future of Legal Technology & Legal Research,” Greater Philadelphia Law Libraries Association First Friday, April 2007.

Selected Campus Presentations

Presenter, “Advanced Internet Resources for Legal Research,” Biddle Law Library, June 2010.

Co-presenter, “Open Access and the Law,” Van Pelt Library, October 2009.

Demonstration of Archivists’ Toolkit, Technical Services Council, Van Pelt Library, September 2009.

Co-moderator, Blogging Roundtable, Penn Law School, January 2008.

publications

“Review of Records Management: Making the Transition from Paper to Electronic by David O. Stephens,” American Archivist, Spring/Summer 2010.

“Preserving Memory, Preserving Privacy: Email, Archival Ethics, and the Law,” Archival Issues (forthcoming).

“Review of Archives Power: Memory, Accountability, and Social Justice by Randall C. Jimerson,” Provenance, October 2010 (forthcoming).

memberships

Member, Academy of Certified Archivists, 2008-present.

Member, Delaware Valley Archivists Group, 2007-present.

Member, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, 2006-present.

Member, Society of American Archivists, 2005-present.

references

Available upon request.