Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles - June 2019

Master’s of Library & Information Science, Specialization in Media Archival Studies

University of Southern California - August 1998

Bachelor of Arts, Communication

EXPERIENCE

Warner Bros. Discovery, Supervisor of Preservation Services

Burbank, California - August 2023-Present

Perform title level research including validating original release format, history, asset provenance, and related details.
Research inventory records to determine best assets for preservation and develop preservation strategy for the given title. Oversee identification and evaluation of elements.
On a project-by-project basis communicate project requirements with vendors. Review and approve associated work-product produced by vendors. Create preservation purchase orders and arrange for element movement as needed.
Create and curate inventory records for assets for digital archive. Maintain shared database for tracking status. Review deliverable in digital archive as warranted in support of data management. Ensure title and asset records are updated to reflect findings of verification and preservation activities.
Provide support for internal inquiries regarding library assets and research assistance as related to archive and remastering activities. Supervise selected archival projects, coordinating inventory maintenance, and vendor monitoring.

Disney Music Group, Asset Management Coordinator

Burbank, California - October 2021-June 2023

Coordinated asset collection, trafficking, storage, and distribution.
Facilitated asset preservation and restoration.
Maintained inventory of physical assets, digital asset libraries, and product sample library.
Performed repertoire database product research and updated metadata as necessary.

UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, Archivist and Assistant Adjunct Professor

Los Angeles, California - June 2020-September 2021

Designed and implemented digitization and preservation projects. Planned, constructed, and maintained finding aids.
Researched and identified potential grants and other funding sources for the archive. Wrote, assembled, and submitted grant applications. Monitored grants that were awarded to the archive.
Solicited the deposit of new collections and acquired permissions, contracts, deeds of gift, and information from collectors.
Taught the Audiovisual Archiving in the 21st Century course administered to undergraduate and graduate students.
Responded to reference inquiries by phone and written communication and assisted students, faculty, visiting researchers, and the public in the use of archive collections.
Conceptualized and participated in outreach initiatives.

UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, Lecturer

Los Angeles, California - January 2020-April 2020

Responsible for teaching the Audiovisual Archiving in the 21st Century undergraduate- and graduate-level course.
Designed a curriculum that examined the history, present state, and future of audiovisual archives with specific focus on ethics, copyright, contracts, fieldwork, preservation, access, as well as issues related to technology, space, budgets, and staffing.

Walt Disney Imagineering Collections, Asset Specialist Intern

Glendale, California - June 2019-April 2020

Organized, inventoried, and processed artwork, images, documents, and other elements pertaining to the creation of global theme park rides and attractions.
Uploaded photographic and moving image media and related metadata into two digital asset management systems.

The Autry Museum of the American West, CLIR Recordings at Risk Intern

Burbank, California - October 2018-April 2020

Created new and enhanced catalog records in Mimsy XG for the sound and moving image collections identified in the Digitizing a Century of Native Voice and Song project.
Composed and entered item-level finding aids for the audiovisual collections in ArchivesSpace for posting to the Online Archive of California.
Stabilized and rehoused collection items in archival enclosures.
Tracked, retrieved, and returned collection items to/from preservation reformatting vendor.
Worked closely with the Autry’s Repatriation and Community Research Manager to prepare notices for affiliated tribal groups.

Los Angeles Public Library, Administrative Clerk

Los Angeles, California - February 2017-April 2020

Charged library holdings in and out.
Collected fines and assisted patrons at the circulation desk.
Maintained and processed collection materials (books, CDs, DVDs, and periodicals).

Visual Communications, Mellon Community Archives Intern

Los Angeles, California - October 2018-June 2019

Digitized photographic images.
Conducted full inventory of film negative and transparency collection.
Developed filing and retrieval system for 35mm color slide images.
Supervised undergraduate interns.
Curated and designed a two-month long photo exhibit using archival images in a Little Tokyo gallery space. Presented on the digitization and curatorial process and conducted a live interview with one of the contributing photographers.

UCLA Music Library, Graduate Student Assistant

Los Angeles, California - October 2017-June 2019

Aided students with inquiries and research at the reference desk.
Processed new materials (CDs, scores, and books) into collection.
Prepared and processed (edited MARC 21 records) the LP collection for offsite storage.
Assisted Inquiry & Research Librarian and Technical Services Librarian with projects and exhibits.

John Levin Cylinder Collection, Fieldwork Intern

Los Angeles, California – January 2019-April 2019

Took inventory of brown wax cylinder collection.
Researched existing library, museum, and archive CMS and metadata fields captured in catalog records.
Constructed a database in FileMaker Pro for the Levin Cylinder Collection catalog records.
Entered the catalog records for 579 of the brown wax cylinders.

Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Junior Fellows Summer Intern

Culpeper, Virginia - May 2018-August 2018

Performed the archival processing (sorted, researched, described, assessed physical condition, and rehoused) of lacquer disc master recordings from the Universal Music Group collection.
Created, curated, and presented a Display Day final project on the “Life of a Lacquer Disc” to Library staff, members of Congress, and the public.

UCLA Library Special Collections, Graduate Student Assistant

Los Angeles, California - March 2018-May 2018

Sorted and rehoused books and periodicals in the Eiko Ishioka collection.
Assisted processing archivist with maintaining audiovisual inventory database.

Living Out Loud – Los Angeles, Senior Staff Editor

Los Angeles, California - June 2013-January 2018

Copyedited all online content.
Oversaw staff of writers, photographers and interns (assigned articles, coordinated interviews)

Campus Circle Newspaper, Editor-in-Chief

Los Angeles, California - August 2004-January 2012

Copyedited and designed cover and layout of weekly newspaper.
Oversaw staff of writers, photographers and interns (assigned articles, coordinated interviews).

AWARDS

2019 Institute of Museum and Library Services Scholarship to attend the International Conference of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums
2019 Music Library Association (MLA) Kevin Freeman Travel Grant
2018-2019 American Library Association Spectrum Scholarship
2018 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Conference Travel Grant

LEADERSHIP ROLES & COMMITTEE WORK

May 2021-Present: Second Vice-President/Program Chair, ARSC Board of Directors
February 2021-Present: Treasurer, International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Executive Board
November 2020-Present: Co-Chair, ARSC Education & Training Committee; Co-Coordinator, Continuing Education Webinar Series
September 2020-Present: Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board Radio Preservation Task Force’s Preservation Division Executive Committee
August 2020-September 2021: UCLA School of Music Anti-Racism Action Committee
July 2020-September 2021: UC Systemwide Integrated Library System (SILS) Digital Collections Functional Group
2021: Local Arrangements Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California and Hawai’i Chapter Conference
2019-Present: Co-Founder, Basement Tapes Day
2018-Present: Coordinator, ARSC Mentoring Program
2018-2021: Editor, ARSC Newsletter
2018-2019: Membership Officer, Music Library Students and Emerging Professionals Group
2018: Conference Committee, Audio Engineering Society International Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration
2017-2019: Founder and Chair, the Student Chapter of ARSC at UCLA

PRESENTATIONS

Bent, L., McClanahan, A., Mejia Ahrens, M., Shimoda, Y., and Widzinski, M. "Career Options in Audio Preservation" (December 2021). Presentation at the virtual SoundGirls Conference.

Mark, T., McCoy, S., and Shimoda, Y. "Archival Activism: The Intersection of Audio Archives and Social Justice" (October 2020). Presentation at the Audio Engineering Society Virtual Fall Show & Convention.

Shimoda, Y. "Community Collaboration in AV Preservation: Basement Tapes Day and Digitizing Native Voices at the Autry" (October 2020). Presentation at the Regional Audiovisual Summit, hosted by the Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Posadas, L., Posas, L., and Shimoda, Y. "Digitizing and Revitalizing a Century of Native Voice and Song at the Autry"; Barker, R., Levy, M., Rastelli, L., Shimoda, Y., and Vallier, J. "New Frontiers in Recorded Sound Preservation: Community-Based Audio Archiving" (May 2020). Presentations at the ARSC Virtual Conference.

Garrett-Davis, J., Ortega, L., Minks, A., Posas, L., and Shimoda, Y. "Community Collaboration and Access: Digitizing Native American Sound Archives" (October 2019). Presentation at the International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM), Temecula, California.

Posas, L. and Shimoda Y. "Digitizing a Century of Native Voice and Song at the Autry Museum" (October 2019). Presentation at the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) 50th Annual Conference, Hilversum, Netherlands.

Shimoda, Y. "Escuchando la Frontera: Listening to Collections and Communities" (June 2019). Panelist at the UCLA Music Library, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, and UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive symposium on the Frontera Collection.

Shimoda, Y. “The Archival Processing of Master Recordings from the Universal Music Group Collection,” presentation and panel discussion on September 25, 2018 at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) L.A. Section meeting on Audio Archiving, Restoration, and Preservation - Past, Present, and Future in Hollywood, California.

Shimoda, Y. “A Summer of Mid-1940s Melodies: Processing Master Recordings from the Decca Label,” presentation on September 21, 2018 at the MLA California Chapter meeting in San Diego, California.

“Wes Anderson: Audio Auteur,” poster presentation with Chloe Patton in May 2018 at the ARSC Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

PUBLICATIONS

Levy, Miles and Yuri Shimoda. “Preserving Home Recordings through Community Collaborations at Basement Tapes Day,” ARSC Journal 53.1 (Spring 2022).

Shimoda, Y., “Optical Transfer Technologies for Radio Transcription Discs,” Journal of Archival Organization’s Special Issue on Radio Preservation 17, no. 1-2 (2020)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15332748.2020.1788313.

“A Summer of Mid-1940s Melodies: Processing Master Recordings from the Decca Label,” The Library of Congress Blog, July 23, 2018.

LIBRARY & ARCHIVAL SKILLS

CMS: Mimsy XG, CONTENTdm, ArchivesSpace
Library Systems and Cataloging Tools: Voyager, CARL-X, OCLC Connexion
Metadata Structure and Content Standards: EAD, DACS, MARC, PBCore
Thesauri and Controlled Vocabularies: AAT, LCNAF, LCSH, ULAN

RELEVANT SKILLS

Protégé, Zotero, Airtable, FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Office Suite, advanced proficiency with Adobe Photoshop and InDesign, OSX and Windows operating systems, graphic design, grant writing, and exhibit curation, preparation, and installation