Sara Allain Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

New Westminster, Bc, Canada

Project management• Oversee multiple projects related to Archivematica for a wide range of international clients, including client proof-of-concept projects, software development projects, implementation projects, and internal process improvement projects• Coordinate meetings, prepare working documents (meeting agendas, project initiation documents, project planning documents), triage project work, and lend digital preservation expertise to project teams• Keep track of project schedules and ensure that invoices are issued as needed and on timeRelease management• Participate in release issue triage and scoping• Maintain release kanban boards and implement incremental improvements to release management processes, in collaboration with Product Owner and other release team members• Manage manual regression testing by archivist staff by developing a comprehensive testing checklist and keeping it up to dateProduct development• Write documentation for new features/enhancements in Archivematica and update and re-write outdated documentation using Sphinx documentation generator and reStructuredText• Developed and implemented style guide for the Archivematica documentation in 2018• Developed public documentation for how users both at Artefactual and external can contribute to the Archivematica documentation• Maintain the archivematica-docs and archivematica-storage-service-docs GitHub repositories, manage pull requests, and provide code review• Train new staff members in Sphinx, reStructuredText, and GitHubClient support• Work with clients to achieve their digital preservation goals, respecting a wide range of client experience, expertise in digital preservation, and budget• Provide timely, courteous, and helpful support to digital preservation hosting and maintenance clients to address immediate needs/concerns

Toronto, Canada

• Plan, craft, and deliver both internal and external communications for the library and archives in order to facilitate awareness and promotion of library resources, services, and support for our user communities• Liaise across campus on a variety of university initiatives, including the launch of the new Student Learning Centre, student experience improvement projects, and outreach initiatives like Open Access Week and Science Literacy Week• Contribute to the strategic development and improvement of the library through membership on the Strategic Planning Working Group, Library Management Group, and the Web Committee, among others• Actively maintain the library’s social media presence via Twitter (@ryersonlibrary) and Facebook and report on current library events via the library news blog, the quarterly library newsletter, and regular correspondence with stakeholder groups via listservs and mass mailing• Provide in-person and virtual reference services for Ryerson students, faculty, and researchers

Scarborough, On

• Member of the Library’s Digital Scholarship Unit, formed in 2010 to create, preserve, and provide access to digital collections that will inspire and facilitate research and knowledge creation for the purposes of teaching and learning• Worked with faculty members as a project manager to develop and implement new digital scholarship projects using open source software, including Drupal and Islandora• Analysed, implemented, and built upon project requirements in order to ensure that faculty projects were feasible, sustainable, and scalable and that they contributed to the overarching curricular and research frameworks already in existence at UTSC• Liaised with project managers and developers at University of Toronto Library’s Information Technology Services (St George Campus) on behalf of the UTSC Library to support tri-campus digital initiatives including Heritage UofT and Collections UofT• Responsible for maintaining social media presence, including Twitter (@digitalutsc) and the unit blog• As Special Collections Librarian, inventoried, arranged, described, rehoused, conserved, appraised, created finding aids, provided access to, and managed digitization projects for all archival and special collections at the UTSC Library• Contributed archival expertise to faculty members and departments on campus that hold historical archival records in order to optimize preservation and discoverability• Conducted all archival reference interviews, via email and in person, to provide access to UTSC’s archival and special collections• Supervised, scheduled, and trained work-study students and research assistants to work on projects within the unit, including digitization, metadata creation, image manipulation, and software usage• Developed training modules to be used by work-study students, research assistants, faculty, and other project partners using a collaborative wiki to facilitate workflows and to ensure the existence of a stable knowledge transference platform

Scarborough, On

• Responsible for arranging and describing all archival collections held by the UTSC Library• Researched and implemented preservation and conservation solutions for a wide variety of documentary formats, including paper, photographs, microforms, maps, and large artefacts• Prepared collections for monetary appraisal and application of the collection to the Canadian Cultural Properties Export Review Board and liaised with external appraisers to determine fair market value for the collection• Planned projects for and supervised eleven undergraduate students over two semesters completing service-learning placements in the archives for credit through the Department of History at UTSC• Created basic archival and care & handling training modules for the students, as well as more in-depth documentation for digitization, metadata creation, and archival processing, as required

Master’S Degree, Library And Information Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Classical And Ancient Studies