Ari Greenberg Audiovisual Archivist
Member, Association for Recorded Sound Collections
Member, Association of Moving Image Archivists
Professional Experience
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts|New York, NY |September-January 2019
o Preservation of Audio and Moving Image (PAMI) unit
o Created Broadcast Wave digital preservation masters of 1980s-era audiocassette recordings from the New Music Seminar collection, working with technicians in the NYPL’s audio conservation studio, and updated inventory records in the NYPL’s FileMaker Pro database
o Created digital masters of legacy video documenting landmark Judson Dance Theater performances
o Performed QC on audio and video XML deliverables upon ingest from vendors
o Inspected, rehoused, and cataloged 16mm film holdings from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in preparation for digitization
Brooklyn Museum |Brooklyn, NY|January-May 2019
o Organized the planning and successful execution of a major initiative to digitize, preserve, and boost access to legacy video from the Museum’s hidden audiovisual collections
o Facilitated collaborative efforts between the Museum’s archival team and third-party data management professionals
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives,
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University |New York, NY|January-May 2019
o Drafted and executed a digital preservation workflow for the 16mm short film Victory Over Fascism (¡Venceremos!), a historically significant work
Library of Congress, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center | Culpeper, VA|May-August 2018
o Inspected severely damaged actuality- and feature-film 35mm nitrate elements in the John E. Allen collection
o Retrieved and staged holdings for use by visiting academic researchers and archival producers
o Digitized 16mm films using Datacine 5K and Lasergraphics film scanners
o Updated MAVIS (Merged Audiovisual Information System) database catalog records
American Joint Distribution Committee |New York, NY|January-May 2018
o Inspected and assessed 145 at-risk audiovisual items on optical and magnetic carriers
o Researched cost-effective solutions for migrating optical and magnetic media
o Drafted a plan to impose physical and intellectual control over the collection
o Designed a workflow and estimated budget for digital migration and long-term preservation-level storage
Third World Newsreel|New York, NY|January-May 2018
o Conducted box- and item-level inspection and assessment of 16mm film elements in preparation for digitization, cataloging items in TWNarc, TWN’s FileMaker Pro database
o Researched and drafted grant proposals for the Recordings at Risk regranting program administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources
o Promoted and facilitated public screenings at venues throughout New York
Butler Library, Columbia University | New York, NY |Fall 2013, Summer 2014
o Librarian’s Assistant in the Recon and ReCAP Processing Unit
o Retrieved, barcoded and cataloged hundreds of books and multivolume sets
o Staged hundreds of books and multivolume sets for offsite processing in collaboration with Princeton University Libraries
o Updated inventory records in Voyager database
Yiddish Book Center | Amherst, MA |Summer 2010
o Assisted in establishing physical control over hundreds of Yiddish books upon ingest
o Led tours of permanent exhibitions
Education
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University New York, NY Class of 2019
Master of Arts, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation
School of General Studies, Columbia University New York, NY Class of 2017
Bachelor of Arts, Yiddish Studies
Bard College at Simon’s Rock Great Barrington, MA Attended 2001-2002
California State Summer School for the Arts Valencia, California Summer 1999
Experimental film and video
Skills
o Voyager, FileMaker Pro and Collective Access database and cataloging modules, Axle Digital Asset Management System
o Familiarity with metadata standards including RDA, AACR2, MODS, MARC, Dublin Core and PBCore
o MS Office Suite, Google Drive
o Video and audio processing: SADiE Digital Audio Workstation, QCTools, MediaInfo, MediaConch, Ffmpeg, Datacine 5K and Lasergraphics film scanners
o Familiarity with HTML
o Film, magnetic media, optical media handling and inspection