Passionate and motivated academic, currently pursuing a dual degree Masters in Library and Information Science and Latin American Studies. I  have spent the past three years immersing myself in Spanish as a student and educator. I have received several honors in this pursuit, including the Bard Spanish Department Senior Project Award. My skills include organization, written and verbal communication, presenting, Microsoft Office, Google Suite, research synthesis, most social media platforms, Spanish (C1 Level), and knowledge organization.

For this project, my contributions principally focused on the interview process and building the dossier content that would be transferred to our website. I participated in both interviews, taking detailed notes of the responses of each librarian and organizing the information into categories that corresponded to what the dossier was looking at. Furthermore, I did ample research on the labor trends for our profession, with statistics that looked at librarians generally as well as that of academic librarians specifically. In this research was where I discovered that our profession is recovering from a decline in job opportunities as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. In addition to this, I also investigated helpful resources to incorporate into our understanding of the profession. It was in this research that I discovered several research guides, articles, and books that were created by academic librarians for academic librarians in order to best prepare and help those in our field. There are a number of helpful frameworks that have been devised with best practices for academic librarians, both those aspiring to do this as a career and those who are well-established in the profession. The wealth of information and resources surrounding information professionals is helpful and also characteristic of our field.