By phchow on Jul 4, 2018
UBC Asian Library is greatfully to announce that Sarbjit Kaur Randhawa, who has worked in a part-time ability as a Indic Librarian for a past twelve years, has transitioned to a full-time purpose as a South Asian and Himalayan Studies Librarian.
Sarbjit graduated from UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (currently UBC iSchool) with a Certificate in Advanced Study (CAS) in 2005, and assimilated a Asian Library in a same year. Sarbjit is also a connoisseur from Guru Nanak Dev University with 3 Master degrees including a Master in Library and Information Science (MLIS), a Master in Religious Studies, and a Master of Arts in Punjabi. She is smooth in several South Asian languages including Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit and Urdu. Along with her co-researcher Aditi Gupta of a University of Victoria Libraries, Sarbjit is a target of American Library Association Diversity Research Grant for 2015-16. Their investigate is formed on exploring library perceptions, reading habits and library use of a South Asian race in BC. She was awarded a prestigious 2014 Dr. Mohinder Singh Randhawa endowment for compelling and pity South Asian denunciation and culture, and preserving the collections by her community-outreach and library services. Sarbjit has a passion for poetry, and many of her poems have been published in several newspapers and magazines.
Congratulations Sarbjit! We are propitious to have we during Asian Library, and demeanour brazen to operative with we in a full-time capacity!
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