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Hanne Pearce

Hanne Pearce

Hanne Pearce is a proud 3x UAlberta Alumna and she has worked at the University of Alberta Libraries since 2004. She currently works in the Library Digital Scholarship Centre. When she’s not in the library, she is likely out somewhere taking photos or playing with her two mini-dachshunds.

    Staff Showcase: Digital Initiatives Project Librarian Sarah Severson

    by Hanne Pearce October 20, 2022
    written by Hanne Pearce

    At the University of Alberta Library, there are a great many staff that work either on the front lines or behind the scenes to make our library services happen. In our staff showcase, we hope to bring those staff into the spotlight to share who they are both as professionals and as people who care passionately about information, knowledge and learning.

    Sarah Severson is a Digital Initiatives Project Librarian so her work primarily happens behind the scenes. In fact, she co-authored our most recent post in Library News about the Digitizing of Independent Weekly Entertainment Newspapers See and Vue. Her work involves managing and planning digitization projects for the Library’s many digitization projects.

    A large part of the Library’s mandate is to preserve and digitize information to make it available for research and study around the world. Sarah joined the Digital Initiatives team in March 2019 with a diverse background in librarianship. She worked at McGill University Library in Montreal, as a media librarian for CBC English Language Television and as a media librarian for Moment Factory (a media experience company) where she notes that a highlight was doing archival research for Madonna’s Super Bowl show!

    I asked Sarah a few questions so we can get to know her better:

    Describe an average day for you. What kinds of activities are involved with your work?

    I work on a large variety of projects so there is rarely an average day. Some days I’m at home attending meetings and doing emails while other days I’m in the library looking at the material we want to digitize. 

    What project are you working on now?

    Working with student journals – teaching a peer review workshop over reading break, training a few different editorial teams how to use our Open Journal Software. I’m co-chairing, for the second time, the online Student Journal Forum which is a long-running showcase of student journal work. Our Call for Proposals is open until October 31.

    I’m also working with other people in the library to get some of our unique collections digitized. In the last week, I’ve uploaded some maps to our internet archive collection, met to review a proposal to digitize our sheet music collection and next week I’ll be training on a new (to us) scanner so we can start digitizing more special collections materials in Rutherford Library.

    Some future projects include buying a scanner that will be available in our Digital Scholarship Centre and developing some Digitization 101 workshops. 

    What would you say is the most challenging about your work?

    Outreach! Getting the word out about all the great things we digitize to the right people. So much new digital content is going up every day. It’s hard to make the time to ensure the right people know it’s there for research.

    Where on campus is your go-to food/drink place? 

    Love going to Ace Coffee on the edge of campus (111th street and 86ave) early in the morning and sitting by the window.

    What kinds of things do you do when you aren’t at work in the library?

    Hanging with my two dogs. I love art and galleries. I just got back from a 6-day trip to NYC and it wasn’t enough time to see everything I wanted to. 

    If you want to learn more about the University of Alberta Library Digitization Projects you can read more on the website at Digitization at the University of Alberta or explore some of the digitized collections.

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  • Stitching the Curve: The Final Chapter

    by Hanne Pearce August 16, 2022
    by Hanne Pearce August 16, 2022

    Once upon a time in early 2020, a few library staff in the Digital Initiatives department had an energetic lunchtime conversation in which we extolled our amazement of recent projects that used data and yarncraft to create physical artifacts. The practice is called data physicalization and you can read more about it in an earlier news blog post. At the time we were most familiar with knitting projects, like the German Train…

  • Black Canadians in Music

    by Hanne Pearce February 15, 2022
    by Hanne Pearce February 15, 2022

    As a music lover, I have always cherished the many resources the library provides for those who want to learn more about different musicians and genres. In addition to musical scores, the library subscribes to many streaming databases and has an extensive collection of CDs and LP vinyl that you can request and put on hold with your OneCard. As it is Black History Month, I sat down with Lucinda Johnston, our…

  • The Benefit of Library Workshops

    by Hanne Pearce September 21, 2021
    by Hanne Pearce September 21, 2021

    The library is traditionally known as the go-to place for information and help with resources. It’s true, helping to find information is our passion, but something not as commonly known is how much teaching our librarians and staff do. This includes instruction in many free library workshops offered over the course of the academic year. During the 2020 fall term librarians taught 233 individual sessions to over 10,321 participants!  Having been a…

  • Art: a browse through the ‘stacks’

    by Hanne Pearce July 13, 2021
    by Hanne Pearce July 13, 2021

    With summer in full swing, many of us are taking time to explore our hobbies and interests, or we are digging deeper into the things we are studying. With the library stacks still closed, let me take you all on a short browse through the stacks to explore some books about Art. I at first felt a bit intimidated on how to approach such a wide and impactful topic. The word ‘art’…

  • Stitching to the End

    by Hanne Pearce March 16, 2021
    by Hanne Pearce March 16, 2021

    As people around the world are commemorating the anniversary of the start of the global pandemic, library staff participating in our Stitching the Curve project have been working on the final rows of our long swatches. For those new to the project, Stitching the Curve was started by a group of library staff back in March 2020, at the start of the pandemic. We found ourselves working from home and decided to…

  • Stitching the Curve Update – December 2020

    by Hanne Pearce December 8, 2020
    by Hanne Pearce December 8, 2020

    It is astonishing to think that it has been nearly nine months now since a majority of library staff began working from home. It has also been nine months since a group of us began a project to capture COVID-19 numbers in Canada by working on a collective stitching project we call “Stitching the Curve”. The project aims to capture the ongoing COVID-19 case numbers from province to province, within strips of…

  • Dans les coulisses de la bibliothèque : Prêts entre bibliothèques

    by Hanne Pearce November 3, 2020
    by Hanne Pearce November 3, 2020

    Avec la contribution d’Alanna Scott La bibliothèque de l’Université de l’Alberta est fière de ses vastes collections de documents imprimés et numériques, ainsi que des documents disponibles via nos partenaires NEOS. Ceux d’entre vous qui utilisent la bibliothèque trouvent généralement que nous pouvons répondre au besoin de tout type d’information universitaire : livres, revues, rapports, thèses – tout est là. Mais que se passe-t-il lorsque nous n’avons pas accès à un document…

  • The Library Behind the Scenes: Interlibrary Loans

    by Hanne Pearce November 3, 2020
    by Hanne Pearce November 3, 2020

    With contributions by Alanna Scott The University of Alberta Library prides itself on its vast collections of print and digital material, and the materials available via our NEOS partners. Those of you who use the library typically find that we can fulfill a need for any kind of academic information: books, journals, reports, theses – you name it. But, what happens when we don’t have access to a specific item within our…

  • Stitching the Curve: An Update

    by Hanne Pearce July 28, 2020
    by Hanne Pearce July 28, 2020

    It has now been well over five months since a group of us University of Alberta Library staff began a data physicalization project to stitch Covid-19 data in Canada. It’s a project that we called “Stitching the Curve”. This is a little update on this data physicalization project’s progress.  To quickly recap the project, members of our team have all selected provinces to either knit or crochet. Our colleague and fellow knitter,…

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