Professional Statement:
I am an early career librarian with a passion in ethics, advocacy and library outreach. The projects on this site, which were completed for the Library and Information Science Graduate program at Pratt Institute, were complied to demonstrate my understanding and competency in Pratt’s Learning Objectives, as well as showcase my interests within the field. Prior to studying at Pratt Institute I attained a Masters Degree in History of Art, with a concentration in Contemporary Photography at Birkbeck, University of London and dual Undergraduate Degrees from Fredonia, State University of New York in Art History and Photography.
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Events Attended
NYU Libraries & Institute for Public Knowledge: Digital Praxis: The Role of Libraries in the Digital Age Attending a discussion between Siva Vaidhyanathan, the Director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, with Melissa Morrone, the Librarian at Brooklyn Public Library, and Vicky Steeves, Research Data Management and Reproducibility Librarian at…
LibGuide: History of Family Separation
LibGuide: History of Family Separation For this project I created a lib guide aimed to be the starting point for research into the trauma caused from family separation, specifically within the US, with 2 other students. Our group aimed at identifying which ACRL framework was expressed throughout the project as well as access the important and…
Documentation of Street Art
Documentation of Street Art: How Crowdsourcing and Tagging are Changing the Landscape of the Digital Documentation of an Ephemeral Art https://studentwork.prattsi.org/infoshow/2019/street-art-documentation For this project I worked with 2 other students to explore the ways in which crowdsourcing, the use of online tags and photography can help to create an environment that is not only conducive to…
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This website was created as a portfolio to fulfill Pratt Institute’s learning objective goals.
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Amber Pasiak 