Mentors

 

Farah Friesen

Current job title: Manager, Research & Knowledge Mobilization

Preferred pronouns: she/her

Previous work experience: Farah has a Bachelor of Arts (English Literature) and a Master of Information (LIS specialization) from the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. She worked as a Reference Intern at the OCAD U Library and volunteered with the St. Michael’s Hospital Library. Soon after graduation, she lucked into the world of research and has worked as a Research Coordinator, Program Coordinator, Knowledge Broker, and Research Associate and is currently Manager, Research & Knowledge Mobilization. She has 9 years of research experience in health professions education. Farah is passionate about facilitating informed decision-making by integrating diverse perspectives and knowledge into practice (from curriculum development to strategy and policy work). Farah’s main research interest is in critically examining traditional academic performance indicators, encouraging alternative perspectives on metrics, and working towards a broader (re)definition of research and educational impact. (Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=AuqjHZ8AAAAJ&hl=en). She has been part of 21 peer-reviewed publications with a book chapter and additional articles in progress, over 24 peer-reviewed conference presentations, and 19 invited talks and teaching from undergraduate to graduate and faculty development programs. Farah is very open to chatting with those interested in branching out and applying their skills to fields outside of libraryland and looking forward to learning from others to keep building her knowledge of current library and information practices.

Areas of expertise: management (conducting effective meetings, communication skills, project mgmt), services (scholarly communication, research (e.g. REB, developing research Qs, data collection/analysis, manuscript preparation, conference presentations, etc.)), knowledge synthesis

Contact info: Farah.Friesen@uhn.ca


Sarit Glaizer

Current job title: Library Technician

Preferred pronouns: she/her

Previous work experience: Sarit has a background in Linguistics from York University and completed the Library and Information Technician Diploma program from Seneca College. She has been working in the health sciences Library field since 2019, first starting at the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie, ON, where she assisted with weeding, collection development, maintenance of pamphlets, and collating stats. Sarit has a passion for information literacy and advocating for information professionals and for the library space. Her future goal is to complete an MLIS degree from the University of Alberta so that she can take her career further and have greater opportunities to advocate and to educate for libraries and information professionals.

Areas of expertise: vendor relations, cataloguing, collection development & maintenance, invoice processing, managing budget, reference, troubleshooting (printing, software, etc.), collating stats

Contact info: Please contact the THLA secretary if you wish to get in touch with this Mentor and we’ll initiate an introduction


Ani Orchanian-Cheff

Current job title: Information Specialist

Preferred pronouns: she/her

Previous work experience: Ani Orchanian-Cheff, B.A., M.I.St., works as an Information Specialist at the University Health Network (UHN), Toronto. She has over twenty years of experience both in health sciences librarianship and as the hospital’s Corporate Archivist. In her capacity as Information Specialist, Ani provides Clinical Librarian services and training on evidence-based literature searching. Her client areas include, Family & Community Health, Community Mental Health & Addictions, Medicine, and Transplantation. She is also experienced at searching for knowledge synthesis projects and in that capacity has co-authored over 50 publications.

Areas of expertise: knowledge synthesis

Contact info: ani.orchanian-cheff@uhn.ca


Carolyn Ziegler

Current job title: Information Specialist, Library Services, Unity Health Toronto 

Preferred pronouns: she/her

Previous work experience: Information Specialist, Trent University Library; Research Librarian, Medical Library, University of Bern, Switzerland

Areas of expertise: hospital & medical librarianship, literature searching, knowledge synthesis methodology (systematic, scoping, rapid reviews etc.), bibliometrics, instruction.

Contact info: carolyn.ziegler@unityhealth.to


NOTE: There are additional mentors who do not appear on this page. If you are a THLA member, you can email the secretary and request contact details for other mentors.

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