FAQ About Allison Schein

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  Allison Schein is located at
  Chicago, Chicago, United States

• What is Allison Schein's job title?

  Allison Schein is a Panel Participant: Workshop: Contemporary Material Practice in Archives: The Studs Terkel Radio Archive Collection, Radio Preservation Task Force Conference, February 26-27, 2016 The Studs Terkel Radio Archive: Take it easy, but take it...to new places, Broadcast Archives Section, International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Annual Conference, September 27 - October 1, 2015. Everyday Memories: A Survey of Multidisciplinary Oral History Collecting Strategies, Society of American Archivists Annual Conference, August 19-22, 2015. Networking Your Way into the Profession: How to Secure Paid Work through Internships, Midwest Archives Conference, May 6-9, 2015. Sharing Studs Terkel's Radio Archives with the World, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Annual Conference, May 15 – 17, 2014. Making Radio with Studs & the Studs Terkel Radio Archive with WFMT, Let's Get Working, Chicago Celebrates Studs Terkel, May 9 - 11, 2014. Creatively Funding the Creative Audio Archive, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, April 26 – 27, 2013. Preserving Chicago’s Living History of Improvisational and Experimental Jazz, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Annual Conference, May 15 – 18, 2013. Local archiving roundtable, Never The Same: Symposium on Grassroots Archiving, June 7, 2013. Sun Ra "Reality Has Touched Against Myth", Hyde Park Jazz Festival, September 28 - 29, 2013. Workshops: Tell Us Your Story: The Doing and Keeping of Oral History, Dominican Sisters Annual Conference, June 30, 2012. CREDITS: “The Art of the Cantor”—WFMT “Does That Hurt? Good!”—2007 Third Coast International Audio Festival submission “A Night in May”—Christine Steyer & Franco Martorana (Bellissima Productions) “Voices of the Sacred”—Caroline Myss (Bellissima Productions) “The Orange Peel Sessions”—Naked & Shameless “Live From Lake Street”—One Swing Bob. Create & teach curriculum for a seven-week after school program that combines technology and storytelling for fifth graders; teach students’ basic Garageband skills and microphone theory so that they are able to create audio documentaries; create a teamwork environment to ensure all students are engaged.Programming/Engineering; Engineer both music and voice-over sessions for national & international broadcasts; engineer location recordings in places such as the Cultural Center in Chicago and Ravinia Music Festival for future broadcasts; engineer live broadcasts; perform quality control functions for programs distributed to the Beethoven Satellite Network, and for mass duplication of programs (including Millennium of Music, Jazz at Lincoln Center) for national distribution; digitize vinyl tracks. Proficiently operated a 20-line switchboard; greeted tenants and clients in a professional, cordial manner; additional key responsibilities: processed all general mail (paper, voice, electronic); complaint resolution; rent and condo assessment collection; scheduled courier delivery and pickup; ordered office supplies. Music Dept., Borders Music & Books Management: open/close store responsibilities; staff oversight; customer relations and problem resolution; restocked cashier's drawers; daily cash reconciliation of a minimum of 10 drawers. Inventory: received inventory and performed quality control functions; product sale and promotional preparation; prepared product for line sales. Created back room inventory flow which resulted in increased productivity.Fieldwork class centered on providing graduate archival students with opportunities to work with current unprocessed collections. Students apply MP/LP to standard collections, create an EAD finding aid and work with new technologies to enhance digital content and collection awareness.Currently managing undergrad and graduate interns to make the Studs Terkel Radio Archive accessible via traditional and new technologies. Create audio montages to demonstrate the scope of archive. Create and update existing database of over five thousand records, adding digitized files (now up to over fifteen hundred). Work with various stakeholders in educational and community settings to create an online repository for user generated content sourced from the Terkel collection. Handle all reference requests. Create and execute outreach activities both locally and regionally.Arranged and processed two of the four collections in accordance with archival standards; coordinates the copying or reformatting of materials for preservation and access; participate in policy and procedure development related to accessioning, processing, cataloging, and preservation; create and input descriptive data to a database that will output finding aids that follow nationally accepted archival description standards; supervise the work of interns, both graduate and undergraduate; manage web content; performs outreach efforts throughout the city to enhance archive awareness; created and managed a fully funded Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to transfer one of the collections; solicit collections from donors. Created 1215 records in Archon describing photographs in the Vernon McKay papers collection, to enhance existing EAD finding aids; use various online translation tools to decipher metadata that is mostly in French; assign subject headings according the Library of Congress Subject Headings authorities; provide descriptive metadata when applicable; corrected various finding aids in Archon for University Archives.Assist in processing the photography archive utilizing More Product, Less Processing; review subject files to identify, extract and inventory company-owned or published materials; perform preservation procedures, including re-housing materials; efficiently enter database collection information, including series, subject headings, publication dates, material format, photographer and cross-reference information; contribute cross-functionally to the development of archival policies and procedures.Manage a staff of ten; create necessary documents to communicate and implement new policy for staff and students; created a new scheduling workflow for use of the audio facilities; schedule maintenance for control and production rooms as necessary; create and maintain an inventory of studio equipment and equipment available for student checkout; coordinate with faculty for class sessions; provide technical & troubleshooting assistance for department computers (PC and Mac platforms) via phone, email, and onsite inspections.

• What industry does Allison Schein currently work in?

  Allison Schein currently works in the Dominican University Graduate School of Library & Information Science | WFMT Radio Network | Creative Audio Archive | Presentations |

• Which languages does Allison Schein speak?

  No Languages Available

• Which industries has Allison Schein previously worked in?

  Allison Schein has prior
  experience in the following industries:
  Northwestern University | Armstrong-Johnston | Center for Community Arts Partnership ; Columbia College Chicago | Columbia College Chicago | Kass Management Services, Inc | Borders Books And Music

• What is Allison Schein’s work experience?

  Allison Schein has the following professional experience:
  Dominican University Graduate School of Library & Information Science | WFMT Radio Network | Creative Audio Archive | Presentations | Northwestern University | Armstrong-Johnston | Center for Community Arts Partnership ; Columbia College Chicago | Columbia College Chicago | Kass Management Services, Inc | Borders Books And Music

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  Allison Schein’s work email
  addresses are
  aschein@dom.edu

• What company does Allison Schein work for?

  Dominican University Graduate School of Library & Information Science | WFMT Radio Network | Creative Audio Archive | Presentations |