Michael Rush
Assistant Head Of The Manuscript Unit For Accessioning at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Greater New York City Area United States
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Top SchoolMichael Rush is an archives and metadata specialist with 13+ years at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, currently serving as Assistant Head of the Manuscript Unit for Accessioning and overseeing receipt, verification, and description of over 1,000 linear feet of material annually. He combines hands-on accessioning leadership with deep technical expertise in Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and related XML technologies (XSLT, XSL-FO, Relax NG), having led Yale’s EAD overhaul and implemented the first EAD system at the Massachusetts Historical Society. A co-chair of the SAA Technical Subcommittee for EAD, he helped lead development of EAD3 and is fluent in descriptive standards like DACS and ICA. Trained in history and archives (BA, MA, MLIS), he brings a rare blend of practical collection stewardship and standards-driven systems design that improves discovery and long-term access. An understated strength is his experience supervising hybrid teams of professional and paraprofessional staff to reliably move large, complex acquisitions into useable, discoverable form.
13 years of coding experience
MLIS, Archives Management, MLIS, Archives Management at Simmons CollegeBachelor of Arts, History and English, Bachelor of Arts, History and English at The University of Connecticut
Github Skills (14)
xml8
xslt8
pdf5
eas3
yaml2
search-engine1
barrage1
community-management1
advanced-search1
keyboard-events1
keyboard-navigation1
keybindings1
searching1
keyboard1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SAA-SDT/EAD2002toEAD3
Nov 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:247 commits, 3 PRs, 131 pushes in 1 year 9 months
instancesxmltransformationsxslt
YaleArchivesSpace/YAML
Jan 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
yaleconfigurationconfigyaml-filesyaml
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