Cultural Heritage Information Management, Concentration
Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.)
Relevant Courses
Foundations of Digital Libraries, Spring 2017.
Collection Development, Summer 2017.
Cataloging and Classification, Fall 2017.
Metadata, Fall 2017.
Linguistics, Minor & Russian and East European Studies, Certificate
University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
Relevant Courses
Computational Methods in the Humanities, Spring 2016.
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (Washington, D.C.)
Operations: Managing and overseeing all campus library operations as detailed under “Campus Librarian” below.
Special collections and archive: Executing vision and leading development of university special and digital collections and future archive.
Building, implementing, and managing digital special collections to support research, teaching, and learning.
Advising on growing existing special collections (e.g., psychological assessment/"test kit" collections) and serving as permanent Chair of the Test Kit and Assessment Steering Committee.
Cataloging: Maintaining the metadata integrity of ILS (Ex Libris Alma) as lead cataloger.
Updating outdated Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and Library of Congress Classification (LCC) numbers in bulk.
Enhancing brief MARC records to better represent special collections materials.
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (Washington, D.C.)
Research & reference: Supporting students, faculty, and staff across 6 national campuses.
Operations and management: Overseeing daily operations on campus and onboarding, training, and managing 6 graduate student workers independently.
Research: Assisting students in 1:1 research appointments to provide guidance on library resources and advise on dissertation or thesis research.
Writing internal documentation and public LibGuides on various topics.
Presenting in master’s and doctoral courses.
Completed projects
Project management: Served as co-manager of TCS Education System ILS migration team of 8 librarians and library staff.
Extracted, formatted, and mapped bibliographic and system data from OCLC Worldshare Management Services (WMS) to Ex Libris Alma.
Led decision-making and configuration of the new environment as the project lead for WMS. Received Alma Administration Certification.
Designed and implemented functional workshops for other librarians with effective workflows and documentation.
Mullen Library, Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.)
Cataloging: Utilized OCLC Connexion to copy catalog and maintain the Oliveira Lima Library special collection (e.g., books, folios, pamphlets, and serials).
Digitization: Scanned correspondence and other collection material for remote researchers using Zeutschel OS 16000 HQ scanner.
Assisted with Preservation activities for library microform.
Department of Library and Information Science, Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.)
Increased social media engagement on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus to publicize services and events. Gained 100+ followers on Twitter in four months.
Updated web pages using Topaz Content Management and created HTML pages for main website.
Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
Processed 125+ boxes of audiovisual materials and 100 boxes of textual records items from the Arlen Specter collection into series and subseries.
Input processed items into Archivists Toolkit to create finding aids.
Also see Presentations page.
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (Washington, D.C.)
Presenting approximately 20 in-class library instruction sessions per year to master’s and doctoral students in Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Business Psychology, and Applied Behavior Analysis programs.
Also see Publications page.
Jones, E., Kijas, A. E., Wingate, A., Bowen, J., Diken, T., Martin, K., Kisselstein, K. G., & Spectre, R. (2022). Interview with Volunteers for Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO). Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 60(3-4), 225-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2022.2077496
Diken, T. (2021). Cataloging Psychological Tests in an Academic Library. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 59(7), 669-680. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2021.1958969
Also see Presentations page.
Diken, T. (2023, March 13). Citation management with Zotero [Webinar]. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology University Library. https://library.thechicagoschool.edu/webinars/recordings#s-lg-box-30429539
Diken, T., Schiff, W., & Veech, J. (2022, November 4-6). Creating an effective literature review [Conference presentation]. Third Annual Dissertation and Thesis Conference, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, virtual.
Diken, T. (2022, July 11). Open access resources for psychology [Webinar]. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology University Library.
Diken, T. (2022, March 28). Organize your research with citation managers [Webinar]. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology University Library. https://library.thechicagoschool.edu/webinars/recordings#s-lg-box-29295735
Diken, T. & Kallista, F. (2021, November 12-14). Library search strategies [Conference presentation]. Second Annual Dissertation and Thesis Conference, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, virtual. https://library.thechicagoschool.edu/dissertation-conference/dtc-repository/2021
Detzel, L. & Diken, T. (2020, November 6-8). Conducting research [Conference presentation]. First Annual Dissertation and Thesis Conference, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, virtual. https://library.thechicagoschool.edu/dissertation-conference/dtc-repository/2020
Diken, T. (2016, April 1). Naming and Renaming in Diaspora: A Case Study of Sephardic Surname Continuity and Divergence in Sofia, Bulgaria [Conference presentation]. Europe: East and West Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
American Library Association (ALA): 2016 - Present
District of Columbia Library Association (DCLA): 2016 - Present
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL): 2018 - Present
Special Libraries Association (SLA): 2018 - Present
Cataloging: MARC 21, AACR2, RDA; OCLC Connexion; MARCEdit.
Metadata: Dublin Core; CONTENTdm, Archivists Toolkit; XML and XSLT; OpenRefine.
Integrated Library Systems: OCLC Worldshare Management Services (WMS); Ex Libris Voyager; Ex Libris Alma and Primo VE.
Interlibrary Loan: OCLC Worldshare ILL; OCLC Tipasa; Ex Libris Rapido.
General: Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, and Powerpoint; Atlassian Confluence; Wordpress; Wikipedia; HTML and CSS.
English: Native
Russian: Proficient
Spanish: Reading