Karen S Needles

Director At Lincolnarchives Digital Project

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Position:

Director at Lincolnarchives Digital Project, Director at Lincolnarchives Digital Project

Location:

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Industry:

Primary/Secondary Education

Work:

Lincolnarchives Digital Project since Mar 2002
Director
Lincolnarchives Digital Project - College Park, Md. since Mar 2002
Director
Library of Congress - National Digital Library (American Memory Collections) - Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Jun 1999 - Mar 2002
Education Resource Specialist
IBM 1989 - 1995
Education Resource Specialist

Education:

UCLA, Los Angeles 1990 - 1992
Pittsburg State University 1986 - 1987
B. S., History, Education

Skills:

Web Design
Content management
Digitization
Research
Teaching
History
Administration
System Administration
Public Speaking
Archives
Non-profits
Content Management
Curriculum Development
Educational Technology

Awards:

President
Lincoln Archives Digital Project
Elected President of the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia. Organized the following: 1st Inauguration Reenactment held on Capitol Hill, March 2011 Symposium "Lincoln and the Constitution", held at the E. Barrett Prettyman District Court House in D.C. Symposium "Lincoln and the Dakota War of 1862", held at the Martin Luther King Library, D.C. Symposium "Emancipation Proclamation: Past, Present and Future Significance" Symposium "Lincoln and Francis Lieber - How the Lieber Code transformed the Rights of Prisoners of War Then and Now", to be held May 2013 Symposium "Lincoln and the Election of 1864" to be held Nov. 2014 2nd Inaugural Reenactment - to be held March 2015 Symposium "Lincoln's Legacy and the Impact of the American Civil War on our Democratic Foundation" - to be held in May 2015 Design and maintain the Lincoln Group of D.C. website

Karen Needles

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Karen Needles College Park, MD

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Work:

Lincolnarchives Digital Project

Jan 2002 to 2000
President and Founder Library of Congress
Washington, DC
Jan 1999 to Jan 2002
Education Resource Specialist Paramount Unified School District
Paramount, CA
Jan 1989 to Jan 1995
Teacher Discovery Communications

1989 to 1995
Education Consultant Paramount Unified School District
Paramount, CA
Jan 1989 to Jan 1993
Teacher United States Air Force
Edwards AFB, CA
1974 to 1976
Physical Therapy Technician Wife and Mother

Jan 1975 to Present
Mother

Education:

Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg, KS
1987
M. S. E in Education Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg, KS
1986
B. S. in History/Education

Skills:

HTML, Dreamweaver, Excel, Web Design, Document Scanning, Digital Conversion