Kenna Fisher is an experienced metadata librarian and archivist with expertise in project management, systems analysis, cataloging, and archives processing. She has over 10 years of experience working in academic libraries and archives, including her current role at the Bancroft Library of UC Berkeley where she leads digital projects and processes manuscript collections. Her skills include metadata standards, integrated library systems, archival arrangement and description, and training staff.

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Kenna Fisher
Metadata Librarian / Archivist
Project Management – Library and Archives Systems
Manuscripts Cataloging Specialist
Experienced systems and process analyst with a reputation for creating practical,
flexible, and highly effective workflows for a wide range of information system needs.
Employs a big picture approach with outstanding attention to detail focused on
increasing productivity through continuous improvement.
Experienced with a variety of many of the most widely used library systems and
metadata standards.
Respected for having a friendly, straightforward, and collaborative communication style
Committed to diversity and open access to information for all
Core Competencies
• Experienced project manager with excellent administrative skills.
• Training and supervising of staff and student workers in archival and library
practices, and institutional procedures
• Enthusiastic user of Total Quality Management principles that empowers
others and fosters an environment of constant improvement.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to write
succinct summaries and abstracts that can improve access to important
resources by researchers, aid important decision making, and produce clear
and easy to use documentation.
• File management expertise including exports, imports, file formats
knowledge, and troubleshooting of computer systems and hardware for
Windows and Mac.
• Maintenance, installations, and updates for computer hardware and software
programs for Windows and Macintosh

2. • Keen awareness of the need for data integrity and back up systems.
• Highly experienced user of integrated library systems such as the Millennium
modules for bibliographic control, serials management, and circulation.
• Expert use of key library metadata standards including AACR2, MARC 21,
DACS, EAD, DCRM(M) and RDA
• Expert use of cataloging aids such as RBMS, AAT, U.S Board of Geographic
Names, Ancestry.com and other genealogical resources
• Highly experienced user of OCLC Connexion client including desktop
installation, cataloging, records importing and exporting, and troubleshooting.
• Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, XML, EAD, FileMaker Pro, Google Sites,
Adobe Photoshop, and social media including Facebook, Twitter, and blogs.
• Extensive experience in appraising, preserving, arranging, and describing
unique and valuable manuscript materials with complex components
including papers, records, photographs, maps, audiovisual, digital, and realia.
• Ability to choose appropriate housing, arrangement, and conservation needs
for a wide variety of primary source materials.
• Proven ability to meet (and sometimes beat) important project deadlines
• Presentations.
• Skilled presenter and facilitator of effective meetings.
• Excellent research skills.
Professional Experience
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley, CA June 2007-Present
Career development encompasses a wide range of library, archival, and project management
competencies. Tasks include as:
Archivist, Cataloger, Digital Projects : Bancroft Library June 2009-Present
• Project Lead for choosing, evaluating, and implementing the first Digital Assets
Management System for the Bancroft Library
• Administer and use content management systems including Archive Space, Electronic
Content Management System (ECMS), and ContentDM
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3. • Created new workflow procedures for manuscripts processing to gain full intellectual and
physical control of a large backload of unprocessed and disorganized collections that cut
retrieval times from hours to minutes
• Created new procedures for the rapidly digital collections workflow, including born digital
materials, to find, retain, preserve, and route materials to various departments for further
processing. Integrated the new procedures into the existing structures in place to safely
track the flow of materials throughout the building.
• Streamlined existing procedures for digital database cleanup projects stalled by staff and
budget cuts resulting in the completion of long-delayed projects
• Metadata descriptions for digital objects including photographs and texts.
• Processing and original cataloging for hundreds of high-value primary source manuscript
materials relevant to the collecting mission of the Bancroft Library including California
Gold Rush letters, Spanish mission records, diaries, journals, ship logs, photographs,
maps, realia, and other Western Americana materials much of it concerning California
and San Francisco history
• Create original MARC cataloging records in OCLC using AACR2, RDA, and DACS
(Describing Archives: A Content Standard) metadata standards
• Exporting and importing of records between OCLC and Millennium.
• Expert use of Library of Congress controlled name and subject authorities lists to
optimize access for researchers.
• Creating new Innovative Interfaces Millennium bibliographic records including item and
holdings records. Editing and upgrading older records whenever necessary.
• Create and maintain collection files containing related legal documentation including
Deed of Gift agreements and other relevant information about the provenance or
contents of the material
• Hiring, training, and supervising of student workers and volunteers in all aspects of
archival and library procedures
Head of Circulation, Marian Koshland Biosciences & Natural Resources Library
(June 2007-June 2009)
• Responsible for all circulation activities and stack maintenance for this 500,000 volume,
high-use academic library open to the general public.
• Significant public service experience managing an academic circulation desk serving as
the first reference point to all library services and facilities
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4. • Supervised, trained, and scheduled all circulation desk personnel including one full-
assistant, five regular staff persons, and sixteen student workers
• Responsible for interpreting and explaining UC Berkeley library policies and procedures
• Responsible for circulation billing, fines, and patron complaints resolution
• Wrote, modified, and edited documentation manuals for circulation procedures, library
functions, and library equipment
• Monitored the use and operation of public computer service equipment including basic
troubleshooting.
• Emergency and building safety coordinator
BLUEPRINT RESEARCH AND DESIGN San Francisco, CA 4/04-6/07
Office Administrator / Foundations Administrative Assistant
Coordinated daily office operations for this professional consulting firm including:
executive assistance, reception, mailings, business correspondence, emails, vendors,
supplies, equipment, facilities and event scheduling, travel arrangements and staff
coordination
REMODELING CONTRACTOR Oakland, CA 12/03-4/04
Finish carpenter
Responsible for all project management, finish carpentry, and construction work for a
residential remodeling project in the Montclair area
LUCAS FILMS San Rafael, CA 9/03-12/03
Film archives special project assistant
Special project to locate added-value footage from original Star Wars trilogy film
elements for inclusion into a new DVD release. Organized the workflow to view unedited
35 mm archival film footage using a provided list of shelf locations and scene numbers
and a KEM flatbed viewer. My ability to recognize numerical patterns within their scene
numbering schema helped me improve their existing Excel spreadsheet for finding
numbered film footages, cutting search times and overall project time by nearly 50%.
JFK UNIVERSITY Orinda, CA 7/02-9/03
Serials manager
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5. Administrative management of the University’s entire serials collection for two library
branches including all ordering, checking in, labeling, filing, and claiming of periodicals
using Innovative Interfaces Millennium. Responsible for database and library records
administration. Vendor relations with subscriber service EBSCO including all ordering,
claiming, canceling and updating of subscriptions.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Los Angeles, CA 10/99-7/02
Film archives special project assistant, Moving Image Archives
Managed, implemented, and administered the first film cataloging project ever
undertaken for the USC student film collection. Cataloged over 1,400 student films:
writing detailed summaries, plot synopses, scene and camera angles. Analyzed legal
documentation for music rights and clearances. Data entry into local FileMaker Pro
database available to USC students and staff. Identified and approved hundreds of student
films for commercial distribution increasing the revenue potential for the USC film
school.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Los Angeles, CA 9/01-11/01
Night Circulation Supervisor
Advanced Information Management - Temporary assignment during break in grant
funding at the film archives
Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Responsible for all circulation desk patron services including patron verification,
reference assistance, and complaints resolution. Supervised five student library assistants.
Cash register reconciling, database updates, and secure closing of the library facilities.
PACIFICA GRADUATE INSTITUTE Carpinteria, CA 7/98-10/99
Library assistant/ IT support technician
Circulation desk customer service, opening and closing of facilities, reference and
research for graduate students in this small academic graduate school library. Record
keeping, filing, and administrative support for Librarian. Computer maintenance on entire
campus including installations and troubleshooting.
NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER Asheville, NC 5/94-7/98
Archival Technician
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6. Archive relocation and conversion assistance moving 250,000 boxes of U.S. government
and military weather records to a new location. Promoted to library technician in charge
of the new archives upon completion of the initial move phase. As the first user of the
beta-version database, I worked closely with the programmer communicating requests for
needed improvements in searching capabilities that greatly enhanced database
effectiveness and requests fulfillment.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - California Institute of Integral Studies San Francisco, CA
MLIS - San Jose State University San Jose, CA
Master’s e-portfolio: https://sites.google.com/site/kennawindflyerfishereportfolio/
Western Archives Institute, 2011 Berkeley, CA
RDA Training, 2014 UC Berkeley
Published works
Fisher, K. (2010). It’s not Monopoly: gender role explorations in online environments. In E.
Greenblatt (Ed.), Serving LGBTQI Library and Archives Users: Essays on Outreach,
Service, Collections and Access (pp. 51-53). Jefferson, North Carolina, MacFarland &
Company.
Fisher, K. (2011). Joseph Wilson’s gold rush journal. Bancroftiana, Spring 2011(138), 10-11.
Committees
UC Berkeley - Staff Development Committee (2010-2012)
Manuscript processing archivist search committee (2011)
Japanese American Internment Project librarian search committee (2014)
Interests
Organizational Management – including works by Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Steven Covey,
and others
Psychology - Freud, Jung, and others
Comparative mythology, particularly Joseph Campbell, and many others
World mythology and religions
Storytelling, Solo Performance, Poetry, Literature, Theater, and Art.
Art History – world travel to museums in England, France, Italy, India, and Mexico
LGBT rights and diversity issues
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