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Nancy MacKay
nancymackay@gmail.com

EDUCATION
M.L.I.S., Library Science    University of California, Berkeley            1983         
B.A, Anthropology              University of California, Berkeley            1967
           
PROFESSIONAL  INTERESTS
Library: Cataloging and metadata; archives and preservation, especially non-print; appropriate use of technology in libraries; libraries in a digital world; intellectual freedom; music librarianship.
Oral history: Life histories and immigrant stories, project design and management, cataloging standards for oral histories, preservation, sound archiving.

WORK EXPERIENCE

1. Lecturer, School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University, 2008-
   
2. Librarian, Head of Technical Services & Special Projects, Mills College, 1989-      Duties include original cataloging of monographs (books, media, special collections), overseeing copy cataloging, managing library inventory project, coordinating migration from DYNIX to Innovative,  initiating authority control cleanup, coordinating data remapping for MARC format integration, overseeing acquisitions, including negotiations with vendors and managing budgets, managing written policy updates and faculty liaison program for collection development, selecting and cataloging all music materials.
3. Oral Historian. Program Coordinator & Archivist, Oakland Living History Program Mills College, 2002-. Duties include budget management, project design, recruitment of interviewers and interviewees, training workshops, record keeping, equipment selection and management, arranging for digitization, cataloging and archiving.
4. Cataloger for the Archive, American Dance Festival, Summer 1996
5. Reference Librarian (part-time, on call), San Francisco Public Library, 2002-2003.
6. Reference Librarian, Spanish Language Cataloger (part-time), Oakland Public Library, 1987-1992.
7. Cataloger, California State Library, Sutro Branch, 1987
8. Cataloger (Retrospective Conversion), University of California, Berkeley, 1985-1986
9. Bilingual Cataloger & Project Manager, HISPANEX, Oakland, California, 1982-1985

PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS

• “Successful oral history programs: secrets to success from those who know.” Panel organizer and chair, Oral History Association Conference, 2007.
• Curating oral histories: from interview to archive. (Left Coast Press, 2006).
• “Oral history training in the community: what will future users wish we’d done better?” Presentation at Oral History Association Conference, 2006.
• “Oral historians and curators: friends, foes, or strangers” (Oral History Association Newsletter, Spring 2005)
• “From Pearl Harbor to the Twin Towers: the Japanese American experience in oral history, then and now.” Panel organizer and chair, Oral History Association Conference, 2004.
• “After the interview: preserving and presenting community oral history projects.” Presentation at Pacific Northwest History Conference, 2004.
• “What oral historians need to know about cataloging.” Presentation at Oral History Association Conference, 2003 and reprinted in an abridged form in the Oral History Association Newsletter, Spring 2004.

AFFILIATIONS
            Legacy Oral History Program,
                               Oral history interviewer, 1995
                                Advisory Board, 1996-     
            Northwest Oral History Association
            Oakland Asian Cultural Center
                               Board of Directors, 2007-
                               Oral History Project Advisory Committee, 2007-
            Oral History Association,
                               Local Arrangements Chair for 2007 conference
            Southwest Oral History Association
            Texas Oral History Association