Sarah Hamerman

Education

Pratt Institute
MSLIS/MS Art History
May 2017

Duke University
BA Art History
May 2011

Professional Activity: 

• ARLIS/NA Advocacy & Public Policy Committee; member, 2019-present
• Participant, DLF Collective Responsibility Forum on Grant-Funded Digital Labor, 2019-present

 
Awards and Scholarships:

• Pratt Graduate Student Engagement Fund Award, ARLIS/NA 2017 Conference Attendance
  
• Celine Palatsky Travel Award, ARLIS/NA New York, 2016
  
• New York Library Club, Gloria Dinerman Scholarship, 2014

Residency and Study Programs:

• Rare Book School, Introduction to Descriptive Bibliography, August 2018, Charlottesville, VA
• Triple Canopy Publication Intensive, January 2018, Los Angeles
  

Skills and technology:

• Voyager ILS
  
• Millennium ILS
  
• OCLC Connexion
  
• Wikibase / Wikidata
• Filemaker Pro
  
• Adobe InDesign + Adobe Photoshop
  
• Some HTML/CSS
  
• French (proficient)
  
• Spanish (intermediate)

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Work

My work as an art librarian has focused on promoting access to special collections through creating metadata, and assisting with reference and outreach. I pursue an ethical, critical, and inclusive approach to library data that centers the lived experience of library patrons, creators, and communities. I have been fortunate to work in libraries in a variety of museum, academic, and gallery settings: 

Princeton University Library | Princeton, NJ
Project Cataloging Specialist, Rare Books
March 2018-September 2019

Princeton University Library | Princeton, NJ
Poetry Cataloging Specialist
March 2018-September 2019

Whitney Museum Library | New York, NY
Assistant Librarian (Maternity Leave Cover)
June 2017-February 2018

Museum of Modern Art Library | New York, NY
Project Cataloger for Artists’ Books
August 2016-March 2018 

Whitney Museum Library | New York, NY
Temporary Library Assistant, Stacks Shift Coordinator
March 2017-May 2017

Whitney Museum Library | New York, NY
Project Cataloger
October 2016-March 2017

Gagosian Gallery | New York, NY
Library Intern
June 2016 - August 2016

Pratt Institute Libraries | Brooklyn, NY
Graduate Assistant for Cataloging and Metadata
January 2016 - October 2016

Museum of Modern Art Library | New York, NY
Pratt/NYARC Collection Development Fellow
August 2015 - May 2016

Whitney Museum Library | New York, NY
Library Intern
June 2015- August 2015

Pratt Institute Libraries | Brooklyn, NY
Graduate Assistant, Visual and Multimedia Resources
January 2015-May 2015

ARChive of Contemporary Music | New York, NY
Cataloging and Digitization Intern
August 2014-December 2014