Sarah Severson
Digitization Librarian
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Severson is a digitization librarian with nine years of experience building accessible, well-organized digital collections for academic and media institutions. Currently at the University of Alberta, she blends archival practice, metadata design, and digital asset management to ensure digital surrogates are findable, preserved, and usable. Her background includes coordinating digital library services at McGill, media archiving for Moment Factory and CBC Television, and developing taxonomy and naming-convention strategies in government and corporate settings. Trained in MLIS with a focus on knowledge management and archives, she brings a recurring emphasis on practical workflows—nomenclature, file organization, and preservation policies—that make complicated media projects manageable. Based in Montreal, she pairs curatorial sensitivity from an art-history background with technical rigor, often acting as the bridge between project conception and long-term digital stewardship.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA, Art History & Religious Studies, BA, Art History & Religious Studies at Concordia UniversityMLIS, Knowledge Management & Archives, MLIS, Knowledge Management & Archives at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (15)
network-analysis9
linked-open-data9
website-hosting9
data-management9
api9
digital-humanities9
python8
open-source6
digitization6
calculator5
extensible4
photo-gallery2
content-management-system1
usability1
asset-management1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sarahseverson/wax-bofh
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Demo site to teach myself more about it Wax.
Contributions:69 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
demo-sitemyselfteachwax
sarahseverson/project-managers-toolkit
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
portfolio-managementmanagersforumsharingcommunication
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