I helped manage publications while working for the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in D.C.

Since the 1970’s, researchers from the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies (CEPS) have actively published in a variety of publications. Numerous papers presenting research results end up in major journals and conference proceedings. They’ve published several books as well.

While working for CEPS, I performed the following:

• Sorted and created a filing system for their reprints.
• Answered reprint requests, received via the mail, recording each transaction.
• Created a searchable, publications database.
• Scanned and digitized over 150 papers and book chapters, saving them as Adobe Acrobat pdfs.
• Restored damaged and yellowed papers digitally with Adobe Photoshop.
• Created a digital publication archive.
• Labelled and boxed reprints for storage.
• Answered publication requests, received via email, recording each transaction.
• Submitted publication citations to Smithsonian Research Online.
• Submitted pdfs to the Smithsonian Libraries Digital Repository.
• Collaborated with Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Air and Space Museum Librarian.
• Provided publication information in quarterly Scholarly Activity Reports to the CEPS department chair.

-Jen, aka. “Power Chair Dorothy”