– Librarian
For the course Professional Experience, I collaborated with a Librarian at the University of Saskatchewan to develop a resource that identifies Canadian BIPOC composers and their publishers, to be used as a tool and collecting guide for librarians looking to diversify collections of notated music.
Applying information visualization and knowledge translation skills, my partner and I told a story based on City of Vancouver workforce pay rates and gender data. New to information visualization, we both learned data visualization best practices, data cleaning and wrangling, and the InfoVis tool Tableau from scratch to present complex data in an effective and digestible way through our final webpage.
Why do some manuscripts look the same? How can their similarities help us answer questions about the information culture in which they were made and used? How can we use design and material features of manuscripts to understand an information culture of the past? To answer these questions, I examined three European medieval music manuscripts from two Carolingian monasteries north of the Alps (in today’s Switzerland).
As part of my tasks supporting academic Librarians in my role as Co-op Librarian at Simon Fraser University, I completed an environmental scan of scan-on-demand services at Canadian & US academic libraries. Here are some excerpts from the report.
I held the position of co-Student Representative for one term with BCALS. Student Representatives liaise with library education programs in BC, raising awareness of BCALS events and issues. In coordination with the rest of the Executive, they are primarily responsible for the BCALS social media accounts and activity.
I hold a leadership position with MLStEP (the Music Library Student and Emerging Professionals Interest Group of the Music Library Association) as Pacific Northwest Chapter Liaison. In this professional association work, I work collaboratively with other MLStEP officers to grow the interest group and improve its impact and inclusivity, liaise with the regional MLStEP members and MLA chapter, and build connections with the regional GLAM and performing arts communities.
In my position as Co-op Librarian at Simon Fraser University, I completed an environmental scan of Open Access Funds at North American universities. Here are some excerpts from the report and a brief talk I did on the project.
Searching for a book to add to UBC’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library, I discovered the intriguing pamphlet “A Message to the Public,” published in New Brunswick in 1905. For a Special Collections Library Management assignment, I argue UBC's RBSC should purchase this rare pamphlet written by one of Canada’s first Black lawyers and civil rights advocates.
As Tour Coordinator for UBC’s Special Libraries Association Student Chapter, I am in charge of researching libraries, contacting potential tour hosts, setting up tour dates, communicating this information to club members, and more.
For a class on Science and Engineering Librarianship, my team-mates and I delivered an informative presentation on predatory publishers. I focused on awareness and education, as well as evaluation tools and strategies available to librarians. Our presentation covered the history of predatory publishing, how predatory publishers & journals are identified, the impact of predatory publishing on the sciences, its impact on the Global South, and the role of science librarians.