Jane Excell

Experience

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  New York University

  Aug 2013 - May 2014

  College Leader

  Planned and taught bi-weekly classes for a cohort of 36 NYU freshmen. Designed, budgeted, and facilitated cohort outings.

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  New York University, Division of Libraries

  Jul 2014 - now

  Oversee New York University Libraries’ collections operations and provide critical support in making efficient, evidence-informed collection development decisions. I develop and guide projects to collect, analyze, interpret, share, and act upon data internal to the libraries and data available from vendors and platforms. I form and contribute to work groups from across the Division of Libraries to codify, document, and improve current collection development workflows and processes, particularly regarding licensing, programmatic selection, format, and duplication within and beyond NYU. Show less Supported e-book discoverability by reconciling access rights and holdings, retrieving and standardizing MARC records, conducting data analysis and quality control, creating documentation to improve workflow efficiency, and troubleshooting metadata issues, using Jira, MarcEdit, MS SQL and OCLC WorldShare. Created bibliographic records for monographs and audiovisual materials in Connexion. Supported global campus Libraries by setting up serial subscription patterns, holdings, and serial invoicing, and copy-cataloging Special Collections materials. Show less

  • Assistant Director, Collection Development

    Sept 2023 - now

  • Collections Specialist

    Sept 2021 - Sept 2023

  • Adjunct Assistant Curator

    Jun 2019 - Sept 2023

  • Monographs Acquisitions Supervisor

    Dec 2017 - Sept 2021

  • Senior Processing Assistant

    Jul 2014 - Dec 2017
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  Long Island University

  Aug 2017 - Nov 2017

  Gardiner Fellowship Archivist

  Digitized and created metadata for archival documents belonging to a number of Long Island Archival and Historical Institutions, becoming proficient in the use of the DT Atom scanner and the handling and description of fragile archival materials