About
Hi! I’m Sasha (she/her) and I am a queer, mixed, second-gen Chinese Canadian settler born, raised, and living on the traditional and unceded lands of the sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen), Stó:lō, Stz’uminus, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples.
I am a fairly recent graduate of the UBC School of Information, having completed my MLIS in May 2022.
Areas of Interest
- Academic/research libraries
- Digital repositories and digital asset management
- Metadata, particularly ethical and accessible description
- Open source tools
- Audiovisual and oral history collections
- Advocacy for equity-deserving groups in library, archival, and information settings
Professional Experience
- Jan 2024 - Present \\ Librarian - Arca Migration Specialist, BC Electronic Library Network
- Aug 2021 - Dec 2023 \\ Student Librarian, BC Electronic Library Network
- Jan 2023 - Oct 2023 \\ Archival Assistant, Squamish Nation
- May 2021 - May 2022 \\ Digital Repository Research Assistant, cIRcle, UBC Library
- Feb 2019 - Aug 2020 \\ English Instructor, Jes Island Language Academy, Seoul, South Korea
- May 2018 - Sep 2018 \\ Graduate Academic Assistant, Rare Books & Special Collections/PARC, UBC Library
- Oct 2017 - Dec 2021 \\ Library Service Assistant, Vancouver Public Library
- Sep 2017 - Dec 2018 \\ Circulation & Collections Management Assistant, RBSC, UBC Library
- Apr 2017 - Oct 2017 \\ Museum Assistant, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
- Jul 2016 - Nov 2016 \\ Tape Logger, Omnifilm Entertainment Ltd.
- Sep 2014 - Jul 2016 \\ Laboratory Coordinator, Canadian English Lab, University of British Columbia
- Jan 2014 - Aug 2014 \\ Research Assistant, Canadian English Lab, University of British Columbia
Technical Skills
Demonstrated working experience with:
- Digital repository systems and software
- Islandora
- DSpace
- Metadata remediation tools
- OpenRefine
- @mire Metadata Quality Module
- Tools for curation and description of digital objects
- CollectionBuilder
- Oral History (as) Data (OHD)
- Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS)
- Content Management Systems
- WordPress
- Drupal
- Tools for static site creation
- Jekyll
- MkDocs
- Transcription applications
- Express Scribe
- oTranscribe
- Otter AI
- OCR software
- Adobe Acrobat Pro
- Tesseract
- Project management platforms
- Asana
- Trello
- Redbooth
- Basecamp
Community Involvement
- Aug 2020 - May 2022 \\ IDEAS@UBC
- May 2018 - Feb 2019 \\ Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice 世代同⾏會
- May 2016 - Mar 2018 \\ Youth for Chinese Seniors
Education
- 2022 \\ MLIS, University of British Columbia
- 2016 \\ BA, English Language, University of British Columbia
Courses Taken
- LIBR 596: Professional Experience (MRAi & UBC Learning Exchange)
- ARST 596: Professional Experience (Rare Books & Special Collections, UBC Library)
- LIBR 554: Database Design
- LIBR 514L: Metadata
- LIBR 511: Cataloguing and Classification
- LIBR 580: Collection Management
- LIBR 588: Theory and Practice of Oral History
- LIBR 553: Understanding Information Users in Diverse Environments
- LIBR 569C: Extending the Progressive Tradition of Information Professionals
- LIBR 587: Preservation
- LIBR 579G: Introduction to Archives for Librarians
- LIBR 504: Management of Information Organizations
- LIBR 506: Human Information Interaction
- LIBR 507: Methods of Research and Evaluation in Information Organizations
- LIBR 508: Information Practices in Contemporary Society
- LIBR 509: Foundations of Bibliographic Control
Last Updated: 2024-07-18