Career
Sessional Public Service Librarian
Acting Collections Coordinator (October 2010 - March 2011)
University of Alberta, Cameron Science & Technology Library
- Provided instruction, assignment and research support, reference consultations, collection development, while promoting library services and resources, as liaison to the departments of Renewable Resources and Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science
- Created and maintained online resource guides and tutorials on topics including research and paper writing, theses and dissertations, institutional repositories, as well as subject, course and assignment guides for liaison areas
- Managed and oversaw budget expenditures and collection development
- Represented Cameron Library while coordinating communication, resource requests, assessments and collection decisions between liaisons, the library head and a centralized committee
- Served on the Liaison Advisory and Collection Development committees
- Instigated library involvement and collaboration with the Aboriginal Student Service Centre in programs that introduce Indigenous high school and first-year students to post-secondary life in a culturally-relevant, informative and constructive manner
- Developed a survey and conducted discussion groups to assess and develop library services for Indigenous students and faculty
- Gave advice and share information with other library staff about information services for Indigenous people, especially Indigenous research methodologies, knowledge sharing and instructional practices, community collaboration, resources, and the academic library’s role in supporting and retaining Indigenous students
- Used knowledge of a wide variety of information resources to meet the varied needs of walk-in library users at a busy integrated public service desk
Reference Librarian
British Columbia Electronic Library Network
- Provided province-wide, cross-disciplinary reference services to post-secondary library users through AskAway, an instant messaging resource
Aboriginal Health Resource Co-op Position
University of British Columbia, Woodward Biomedical Library/Xwi7xwa Library/cIRcle
- Conducted an environmental scan of Indigenous health research activities and presented findings in lecture, database and report form
- Provided material and ideas for revitalised and complementary interlibrary Indigenous health resource guides
- Created material for Indigenous-health research related institutional repository and library orientation sessions
- Contributed to workshops for graduate students and faculty on open access and scholarly communication
- Assisted in evidence-based research and citation management classes
- Contributed to workshops on open access and scholarly communication
- Gave research and bibliographic instruction on the reference desk
Intern
Smithsonian Institution, Vine Deloria Jr. Library of the National Museum of the American Indian
- Assembled and organised pamphlets for the library's vertical file
- Researched artists and contributed data to the Art and Artists Files in the Smithsonian Libraries Collections
Graduate Academic Assistant
University of British Columbia, Xwi7xwa Library, First Nations House of Learning
- Acted as research assistant for the head librarian and the associate dean of Indigenous education at UBC
- Developed a cross-disciplinary database of publications and research by Indigenous scholars at UBC
- Catalogued audio-visual material