Kathryn Lebere Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Provided research and reference services, such as case law and secondary source research, media monitoring, and document delivery for partners, associates, and students, often on tight deadlines
• Managed the library’s print collection, including acquisition, circulation, distribution, and weeding
• Prepared and distributed daily, weekly, and monthly legislative and current awareness updates to ensure timely and accurate information delivery to Firm members
• Facilitated the completion of major expert-witness requests, including the collection of hundreds of articles, patents, and decisions
• Managed the Research Team’s intranet pages and created libguides for various practice groups
• Co-authored the Research Team’s best practices documentation to ensure consistency in research deliverables and internal and external communication

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Provided research and reference services to lawyers, students, law clerks, and staff
• Helped manage the print collection, including acquisition, circulation, distribution, and weeding
• Prepared and distributed weekly and monthly legislative updates and news alerts to ensure timely and accurate information delivery to lawyers and students
• Collaborated with Records Management on digitization projects

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Collaborated with academics to create a digital edition of John Derricke’s Image of Irelande, encoded in TEI-XML
• Finessed the project’s schema and created custom TEI markup
• Modernized the text for students and lay readers

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Liaised with researchers and academics to develop an RDF vocabulary, declared in SKOS, to support the ontological mapping of cultural heritage datasets to CIDOC CRM
• Created workflows and training materials for 30+ employees to facilitate consistent and timely documentation development
• Wrote, edited, and encoded documentation for 15+ tools to allow diverse users to create and explore linked open data
• Authored the official introduction to linked open data pages to explain important concepts to users, researchers, and students
• Worked alongside the UX team to help design and create accessible images for the LINCS Portal
• Led tutorials on how to use GitLab and write user documentation to facilitate knowledge transfer

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Digitized 300+ conference and seminar materials using FileTrail for records management
• Assisted with collection circulation, legal research, and reference questions

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO):
• Managed 10+ employees, project workflow, and budget to ensure completion of deliverables
• Wrote, edited, and encoded 300+ documents and their metadata in TEI-XML to create interactive and interoperable texts and datasets
• Acted as Remediating Editor of LEMDO’s edition of Othello
• Liaised with 40+ academics and students across North America and Europe to support cross-institutional collaboration
• Co-authored a successful Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant, securing $200 000 in funds

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• Map of Early Modern London (MoEML):
• Managed 10+ employees, project workflow, and budget to ensure completion of deliverables
• Wrote, edited, and encoded 300+ documents and their metadata in TEI-XML to create interactive and interoperable texts and datasets
• Acted as Transcriber, Markup Editor, CSS Editor, and Toponymist for the first digital edition of John Stow’s 1598 and 1633 Survey of London
• Acted as Markup Editor for the first digital edition of London's Mayoral Shows
• Developed a records management system to improve project archival practices

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• Instructed children ages 3-12
• Presented at promotional events

Master Of Library & Information Science - Mlis

Cumulative Average: 91% (Awarded Ruth Cameron Medal for highest graduating average) Coursework: • LIBR 504: Management of Information.

Bachelor Of Arts, Honours With Distinction, History And English

Cumulative Average: 89% (8.24/9.00 GPA) Awards: 13 merit-based scholarships, totaling over $15 000