Employment
Executive Director
JusticeAccess
Washington, DC
December 2020-present
Competitive Intelligence Manager
Miles & Stockbridge
Washington, DC
December 2021-present
Public Records Administrator
District of Columbia Office of Public Records
Washington, DC
September 2015 to October 2020
Managed and directed all operational and administrative functions of the Office of Public Records:
- Supervised a team of five full time employees, managed employee performance through annual evaluations and performance improvement plans, and adjusted assignments to support employees’ strengths.
- Wrote position descriptions, interviewed, and hired for a newly created position and to fill a vacancy created by an internal promotion.
- Increased the capacity of the Office by recruiting interns, students, and volunteers to complete projects.
- Oversaw a major capital project to replace the heating and air conditioning systems in the archives and records center facility.
- Contributed to the site selection and design processes for a new archives and records center facility.
- Introduced data tracking to facilitate quarterly performance reports, identify trends in agency service usage, and track employee workloads.
Contributed to the mission-specific programs of the Office of Public Records:
- Overcame structural barriers to achieve small but vital accomplishments to preserve archival holdings and minimize government waste.
- Updated records management policies to improve office performance and interagency relationships without sacrificing agency compliance with records management laws.
- Prepared proposed rules for retention of email.
- Appraised government records for evidentiary, legal, fiscal and enduring value. Wrote, revised, and/or approved retention schedules for over thirty government agencies.
- Reduced a decades-long backlog through processing, arrangement, and description of archives holdings.
Presentations
- Unauthorized Practice of Law: What is our risk, really? (Discussion Den). AALL Annual Meeting, July 2023
- Innovating for Access to Justice (Lightning Talk). SWALL, summer 2023
- JusticeAccess: A law library designed for the public (Lightning Talk). SEAALL, spring 2023
- The Reference Librarian as the Future of the Law Library. Pasts and Futures of the Library conference, April 2022
- JusticeAccess: Meeting the legal information needs of members of the public where they are (briefing). Catholic University of America’s 14th Annual Bridging the Spectrum Symposium, February 2022
- Government Records Management into the Future. NAGARA Winter Regional Forum 2020
- Round and Round We Go: Moving Local Collections, DC History Conference, November 2019
- Red Tape, Green Tape: Making Changes in a Bureaucracy, AASLH Annual Meeting, August 2019
- My Favorite Mistake: Confessions of an Imperfect Archivist, CoSA-NAGARA-SAA 2018 Joint Annual Meeting
- A Change Would Do You Good: Transforming Archives with CrossSector Perspectives, Midwest Archives Conference 2018 Annual Meeting
- UELMA-Compliant Preservation: Questions and Answers? (lightning talk), National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program’s Digital Preservation 2014 Meeting
- The Democratization of Legal Information, Catholic University of America’s 6th annual Bridging the Spectrum Symposium
- Legislative Process and Legislative Histories in the District of Columbia, Legislative Research Special Interest Section, Law Librarians’ Society of the District of Columbia, September 25, 2013
Publications
- Katz, Rebecca (20187-2018) “A Law Librarian Walks into an Archives.” Law Library Lights: Vol. 61, page 19.
- Katz, Rebecca; Harris, Kayla; and Huggard, Marcella (2018) “A Change Would Do You Good: Cross-Sector Perspectives,” MAC Newsletter: Vol. 46 : No. 2 , Article 14.
- Contributing writer, Hack Library School. Selected HLS posts
Posters
- On the Right Track: A New Approach to Access to Justice in the District of Columbia (poster). AALL Annual Meeting, July 2023
- Searching for Buried Treasure: Teaching Archival Research Skills to Archaeologists. Catholic University of America Bridging the Spectrum Symposium, 2018
- Planning for DC Archives 2022. American Association of State and Local History Annual Meeting, 2016
Professional service
- Board of Directors, August 2019-October 2020
- Awards Committee, 2018-2020
- Archives and Records Management Survey Committee, 2018, 2020
- Bylaw Revision Committee, 2020
Open Government Advisory Group
- Ex oficio member representing the Executive Office of the Mayor. Wrote procedures for Advisory Group activity.
DC History Conference
- Planning Committee, 2016-2020
- Submissions Subcommittee lead, 2017-2020
American Association of Law Libraries Government Documents Special Interest Section
- Publications Committee, 2014-2015
Law Librarians’ Society of the District of Columbia
- Access to Justice Committee, Chair and founder, 2014-2015
Certifications
Certified Records Manager, 2018-present