Joe Everett

About Joe Everett

Joe Everett is the Family History, Local History, and Microforms Librarian at the Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library. He has over 25 years combined experience in the genealogical field at BYU, the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and Ancestry.com. Joe manages the collections and patron services of the BYU Family History Library and serves as a faculty liaison to instructors in BYU\'s Family History undergraduate degree program and others involved in family history on campus from social to computer science.At FamilySearch, Joe was a library program manager providing services for the more family history centers. Previously at FamilySearch, he headed the International Reference floor at the Family History Library, and also worked for several years as a technical services librarian, cataloging Slavic and Germanic records. He has served on numerous strategic planning and program development teams at FamilySearch. At Ancestry.com, he worked in content acquisitions and content product and project management, putting genealogical databases online. Joe earned a B.A. in Russian Language and in Family History/Genealogy (Germanic emphasis) from Brigham Young University and a Master of Library Science from Emporia State University (Kansas). He has been a member and officer in various library and genealogical associations and has lectured and published articles on U.S. and European family history research, historical geography, and migration.Specialties: genealogy, family history, library science, Germanic & Slavic studies, Eastern European studies, historical geography, paleography, project management, data requirements, information retrieval, search, technical writing and editing, metadata, genealogical data standards, public speaking, Russian language, German language

Experience

1. Family History, Local History, and Microforms Librarian

   Harold B. Lee Library

   Apr 2018 — Present · Provo, UT, US

Education

• Brigham Young University

  BA, Family History, Russian

  1991 — 1994

• Emporia State University

  MLS, Library & Information Science

  2000 — 2002

Skills

• Proofreading
• Archives
• Research
• Search
• Product Management
• Russian
• Content Management
• Genealogy
• Databases
• Teaching
• Digital Preservation
• Cataloging
• History
• Online Research
• Library Science
• User Experience
• Family History
• Editing
• Leadership
• Libraries
• Information Retrieval
• Data Analysis
• Software Documentation
• Social Media
• Metadata
• Library
• Project Management
• German
• Public Speaking
• Blogging
• Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Palaeography
• Books
• Analysis
• Technical Writing