Louise Putnam
Department:
College of Liberal Arts
Title:
Departmental Assistant - Hourly
Location:
Wheatley Hall Floor 02
Areas of Expertise
Image database management; data migration; metadata creation, organization, and standardization. Particular interest in subject indexing.
Professional Publications & Contributions
- "Shared Shelf and Research Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston." Paper presented in conjunction with Robert Stevenson, PhD at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, January 8-12, 2015. [ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group.] Chair: Anneliese Taylor.
- “Visual Resources Beyond Art History: From Titian to Turtles at the University of Massachusetts Boston.“ Paper presented at the Visual Resources Association 2014 Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 12-15, 2014. [VRC Session 1, Applying Visual Resources Expertise Beyond Art History] Moderator: Mark Pompelia, Rhode Island School of Design.
- “Site-Specific Cataloguing of Chinese Holdings.“ Paper presented at the SECAC [Southeastern College Art Conference] 2001 Annual Conference in Columbia, South Carolina October 24-27, 2001. Published in Spring of 2002. [VRC Session II: "Cataloging in the Age of Electronic Information." Moderator: John Taormina, Duke University.
- “ARTEMIS and the Hunt: Searching for Subject Matter in a Visual Resources Database.” April 2000. Paper presented at the Visual Resources Association annual conference, San Francisco. Published in the Bulletin of the Visual Resources Association, Winter 2000, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp 85-88.
- “How to Get What You Want When You Want It: Database Management in a Visual Resources Collection.” February 1999. Paper presented at the Visual Resources Association annual conference, Los Angeles. Published in the Bulletin of the Visual Resources Association, Summer 1999, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp 19-21.