Academic Librarianship – Page 8

Sonya Betz, MA, MLIS

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Head, Library Publishing and Digital Production Services, University of Alberta

Areas of expertise: library publishing, open access, open education, digital repositories, web and user experience, project management, liaison librarianship, instruction, collective agreements / negotiating
Can help with: resume/CV/application review, cover letters, academic library questions, professional involvement/service, tenure/continuing appointment dossier prep
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: sonya.betz@ualberta.ca, @sfbetz

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Team Lead, Digital Learning and Scholarship, Case Western Reserve University

Areas of expertise: digital scholarship, archives/special collections, web archiving and preservation ethics, digital preservation, social justice digital scholarship, digital labor, programming
Can help with: job applications, mock interviews, resumes, academic culture, work/life balance
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: stacie.m.williams@case.edu, @wribrarian

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Director, John and Dotsa Bitove Law Library and Copyright Officer (Western University)

Areas of expertise: copyright, OA, OER, law librarianship, accessibility, management
Can help with: general questions, mock interviews, cv review
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: sspong@uwo.ca; @stephenspong

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Data Services Librarian, University of Northern BC

Areas of expertise: Research data management, data services, student outreach, community outreach, project evaluation, critical information literacy, knitting/crochet
Can help with: CV/Cover letter review, mock job interview presentations, general questions about academic librarianship (especially at small institutions!), sounding board for new ideas/programs/projects, grant application advice, deciphering poorly-written knitting and crochet patterns,
Can speak: English, French(a little rusty)
Can read: English, French(a little rusty)
Contact: susie.wilson@unbc.ca

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Social Science Librarian

Areas of expertise: Strong expertise: scholarly communication, open access, U.S. copyright, social sciences, liaison work, government documents, project management. Lesser expertise: open educational resources and research data management
Can help with: CV/cover letter review, questions about academic libraries and above expertise areas
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: @tschultz0, teresas@unr.edu

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Research librarian for life sciences and research metrics

Areas of expertise: liaison work, data management, reproducibility, academic librarianship, research impact and metrics, science librarianship, health science librarianship
Can help with: CV review, job interview question, academic library questions
Can speak: English
Can read: English, Spanish
Contact: tishamentnech@gmail.com, @tishamentnech

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Health Sciences Liaison Librarian, University of British Columbia Library

Areas of expertise: Academic health sciences libraries, systematic reviews, scoping reviews, evidence based practice, expert searching, public health librarianship, pharmacy librarianship, moving from the US to Canada, patient and public involvement in health research, citizen science
Can help with: CV review, job interview prep (academic or medical libraries), general questions about health librarianship or any of the areas listed above
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: ursula.ellis@ubc.ca