Connecting users to the information they seek through bibliographic control, metadata enrichment, & support for open publishing practices.
Critical cataloguing to improve access to information.
Research data management.
My Professional Credentials
Certifications & Training
- Fundamentals of OCAP First Nations Information Governance
- Wikidata Summer Institute
- Certificate in Library Carpentry
- Certificate in Project Management
- ACRL DSS: Python for Librarians and Digital Humanists
- Library Management Institute: The Manager
education background
- Master in Library and Information Science
- B.A. in Media, Information and Technoculture
- Diploma Applied Photography
Skills Highlight
- Controlled vocabulary and classification schema (LCSH, CSH, MeSH, LCNAF, LCC, NLM, KF Modified)
- Library Metadata (RDA, Marc21, XML, Dublin Core)
- Data cleaning and analysis (MarcEdit, Excel, Regular Expressions, OpenRefine, SPSS, Python basics)
- Ex Libris’ Alma (Analytics, Metadata Editor, Normalization Rules, Electronic Collections)
My Journey
Librarianship is my second career. I just fell into it, bonding with libraries later in life while pursuing a B.A. in Media, Information, and Technoculture. When I decided to take this program I was looking to expand my 8 year career as a freelance photographer, but as it turns out that was not my path. One of the core courses of this program was Information and Its Context, and it was during this course that I decided I wanted to be a librarian. I obtained a Master in Library and Information Science in 2012 and a certificate in Project Management in 2015.
Examples of my work
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