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Award-Winning

Yes, it's true; I'm officially an award-winning brewer. Here are some ways to celebrate this accomplishment:

Beer
Dieu du Ciel! Rosée d'Hibiscus
Gasthaus Gosebrauerei Bayerischer Bahnhof Gose
Reissdorf Kölsch
Victory St. Boisterous
Victory Braumeister Pils

Books
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
A Good Horse Has No Color: Searching Iceland for the Perfect Horse by Nancy Marie Brown
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Snow Day Lists

The icy weather affords an opportunity to broadcast a few recent favorites, many of which admittedly have not changed much since November:

Music
Sweden - The Mountain Goats
Laid - James
The Life Pursuit - Belle & Sebastian
Company - 2006 Broadway Revival Cast Recording
Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters - The Twilight Sad

February Derby Picks
Anak Nakal
Court Vision
Face the Cat
Tale of Ekati
War Pass

Beer
Iron Hill Pilsner Barleywine (West Chester)
Stone XI Anniversary
Troubadour Obscura
Troegs Scratch #7
Victory Baltic Thunder

Year-End Music Roundup

This year, I have been mostly listening to:

Crowded House - Farewell to the World, Time on Earth
Eliza Carthy - Rough Music
The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse, Absent Friends
Liam Finn - I'll Be Lightning, Live@Spaceland
Hoots and Hellmouth - Hoots and Hellmouth
The Lucksmiths - Spring a Leak, Warmer Corners, Naturaliste
Math and Physics Club - Math and Physics Club
Kate Rusby - Awkward Annie
The Tallboys - Rubber Dolly
The Wedding Present - Take Fountain, Search for Paradise

Concerts attended in 2007:

Waterson: Carthy (minus Norma Waterson), Mandell Theater, Philadelphia
Crowded House (with Liam Finn opening), The Mann Center, Philadelphia (and also earlier in the day at World Cafe Live)
The Lucksmiths (with Ladybug Transistor and Still Flyin' opening), DC9, Washington, DC
I suppose technically The Wiggles (The Spectrum, Philadelphia) counts as a concert too...

Year-End Beer Roundup, Take One

In no particular order, here's my first crack at my top ten beers for 2007 -- and yes, there are more than ten at this point:

Troubadour Obscura - Belgium
Bell's Batch 8000 - USA
Berliner Kindl Weisse - Germany
Dogfish Head Fed-Extra Mild - USA
Dogfish Head Baltic Porter - USA
Russian River Pliny the Elder - USA
J.W. Lees Vintage Harvest Ale 1998 - UK
Stone XI Anniversary (on tap) - USA
Elysian Fields ESB (hand pump) - USA
Thomas Hooker Liberator - USA
Avery/Russian River Collaboration, Not Litigation - USA

Lisa Grimm's Incredibly Interesting CV

Experience

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2007-current
Assistant Archivist
Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Reference, cataloging & accessioning
Adding metadata to items in digital collection
Overseeing interns and student workers

2006-2007
Senior Web Specialist
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Managing all aspects of the Penn Vet web site
Overseeing major technology projects and software integrations
Developing a content & digital asset management solution for learning objects
Creating policies and standards for information architecture and metadata

2005-2006
Project Librarian/Archivist
Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Processing the Brooklyn Museum Art School collection and preparing finding aid
Updating Access database and creating original MARC records
Processing and cataloging the Allen Wardwell library collection
Answering reference questions

2003-2005
Web Production Editor
Nature Publishing Group
New York, NY, USA
Working with external vendors and internal teams on Academic Journals
Managing weekly and monthly web production schedules for six journals
Launching new journals and managing journal redesigns and builds
XML, SGML, HTML and CSS coding
URLs: http://www.nature.com/modpathol/, http://www.nature.com/labinvest/,
http://www.nature.com/npp/, http://www.nature.com/mp/,
http://www.nature.com/jp/, http://www.nature.com/ijir/,
http://www.labanimal.com, http://www.nature.com/jcbfm/

2002-2003
HAN Content Manager
NYC Department of Health
New York, NY, USA
Working with external vendors and internal teams to develop and launch the Health Alert Network web site
Managing content and developing information architecture standards
Managing users and documents with SharePoint
URL: http://www.nyc.gov/health/han/

2002-2003
Editorial Freelancer
Cambridge University Press
New York, NY, USA
Disk editing and reference consolidation of articles for scholarly journal
Working with copyeditor to enter corrections before articles go to press

2001-2002
e-Team Logistics Manager
Hewlett-Packard Media Solutions
Cupertino, CA, USA
Working with clients to develop schedules and standards for live and pre-recorded online training events in the US, Europe and Asia
Setting production schedules and targets for CD production
Managing and developing client relationships
Collaborating with internationally-distributed team to manage events
URL: http://www.hpmediasolutions.com

2001
Project Manager
Juniper Networks
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Identifying and managing all aspects related to the global Juniper.net web site
Developing and enforcing information architecture standards
Collaborating with multiple international departments for initial content development and updates
URL: http://www.juniper.net

1998-2001
Web Production Manager
Women.com
San Mateo, CA, USA
Interviewing, hiring, training and managing a team of six employees
Allocating projects and developing employee goals and standards
Maintaining and negotiating schedules among multiple departments
HTML and Javascript coding; building new web site templates
Developing and enforcing information architecture standards
Evaluating new software solutions and recommending packages for purchase
Managing bicoastal rollout of new navigation, channels and web sites
URLs: http://women.com, http://womenswire.com
http://satellitesisters.com, http://prevention.com,
http://bsmithwithstyle.com, http://familyplay.com

1997
Web Programmer
Smartnet
London, UK
HTML & JavaScript, ColdFusion and ASP coding
Coding and managing regular web site updates
Clients included Christies, Debenhams & JazzFM
URLs: http://www.christies.com, http://www.jazzfm.com,
http://www.debenhams.co.uk, http://www.principles.co.uk

1996-1997
Web Assistant
Time Out
London, UK
HTML coding, some layout
Updated sites weekly & fielded user and advertiser queries
URL: http://www.timeout.co.uk

1993
Archaeologist
Ashkelon Excavations
Ashkelon, Israel
Digging, recording, finds management
Research

Education

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MS in Library and Information Science, 2006
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
Brookville, NY, USA
Concentration in Rare Books & Special Collections; coursework in Archives, Cataloging & Academic Libraries

MA in Archaeology, 1997
University College London
London, UK
Dissertation on the trade of amber in the late bronze/early iron age in Northern Europe

BA in Archaeology, 1995
Boston University
Boston, MA, USA
Other courses included Latin, Geology, Chemistry, Folklore, English Literature

Other Courses:
Rare Book School: The Printed Book in the West since 1800
Individual classes: Human-computer interaction, software engineering, C, C++, database design

Skills

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Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows, UNIX, Linux
Software: HomeSite, Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Office, MS Project, MS Access, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, HP Virtual Classroom, Blackboard, SharePoint, Quark, InDesign, RLIN Terminal, Voyager
Web & Metadata: HTML, XHTML, XML, SGML, CSS, SQL, Javascript, Perl, ColdFusion, ASP, LCSH, AACR2, MARC, Dublin Core, EAD
Languages: Reading knowledge of Latin, French and Spanish; some German
etc.: Delivering presentations, academic teaching and employee training

Affiliations

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SAA, ALA, ACRL, RBMS, ULS, SLA, BJCP

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