Please join us in welcoming Ratna Dhaliwal to the Dalhousie Libraries. Ratna, who is based in the Killam, is the new Collections & Metadata Librarian. Her first day was November 1.

As a member of the Resources team, Ratna will provide leadership and oversight related to metadata, cataloguing, and resource discovery to the Libraries’ community, as well as contribute to collections management decisions. She is a recent graduate of the Master of Information program at Dalhousie University and she holds a Diploma in Library Information Technology from Langara College and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Film Studies from Brock University.

Ratna has previously worked as an eResources Assistant in Collections Services at the University of Saskatchewan, an Information Assistant in Collections Development at the King’s College Library (UK), a Library Technician/Cataloguer at Inspire Health in Vancouver and as a School of Information Management Summer Student in Instructional Development at the Patrick Power Library, Saint Mary’s University. As a Dalhousie graduate student, Ratna also worked as both a teaching assistant and a research assistant.