– 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.
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).
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.
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.