Building a dataset of BIPOC composers affiliated with Canada & their publishers
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.
Information visualization - City of Vancouver employees: How do women fare?
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? Examining Carolingian music manuscripts
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).
Scan-on-demand services at CARL & ARL libraries: environmental scan
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.
BCALS student representative
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.
MLStEP Chapter Liaison
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.
Open Access Funds: environmental scan
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.
“A Message to the Public” by A. B. Walker: Adding an overlooked Canadian voice to UBC's Rare Books and Special Collections
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.
Special Libraries Association Student Chapter
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.
Predatory Publishers: The role of science librarians
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.
RILM database instructional presentation for undergraduate students
For a course on information retrieval systems, I researched the information literacy needs and obstacles of undergraduate music students. Based on my findings, I developed and led an effective and engaging student-centred lesson on how and why to use the database RILM when researching music. Preparing and leading this lesson was fun for me because I got to apply my teaching skills acquired from my previous jobs in Korean universities to the information literacy field.
Clovis Museum website prototype: A user-friendly website for older people
I designed a website prototype for a local museum in Clovis, California. My co-designer and I identified that seniors were the main visitors to the existing website but that it was terribly user-unfriendly and inaccessible for all users, worse so for older users. After examining UX and Human-Computer Interaction literature on seniors’ difficulties accessing information online, we re-designed the website to be accessible and user-friendly for adults over 65.
Seminar - Information & Empowerment: Indigenous Knowledge
I facilitated a seminar on Indigenization and decolonization of information organization. I learned more about how knowledge organization systems are being developed that incorporate Indigenous peoples’ approaches to knowledge and ways of knowing and came up with learning activities for my classmates to examine and discuss these issues in a critical way.
Descriptive System Components: Jazz Solos & Sheet Music
For this assignment, I described two descriptive systems: one an existing descriptive system and proposed a new descriptive system. Each separate description identified combinations of content standards, markup formats, and controlled vocabularies. For the existing system, I chose the Sheet Music Collections of York University’s YorkSpace repository. For the second part, I proposed a system that would allow the performances of jazz solos in jazz recordings to be organized and described.
Music Library & Diversity: Topic Briefing
I researched and wrote a concise and compelling topic brief for the UBC Music, Art, and Architecture Library director arguing for the music division to contribute to diversity initiatives by implementing cultural events, programs, and exhibits that promote diversity.