Librarianship, Teaching & Supervision
With a Bachelor of Science in Communication (summa cum laude) and a Master of Library and Information Studies (magna cum laude) as well as over a decade of diverse experience across the library and information field, Smith has sat on committees, working groups and boards of directors of provincial, national, and international library associations.
Smith’s current role is as supervisory librarian and part of the Library Management Team at Concordia University Library in Montreal, Canada. Providing leadership in defining and developing the Library’s acquisitions processes, Smith supervises a team of library staff and is responsible for overseeing acquisitions operations for all library materials.
Additionally, Smith possesses practical academic experience. She has supervised research assistants and practicum students, and has been both a master’s-level instructor and a guest lecturer in information studies via collaborations with McGill University’s School of Information Studies, Dalhousie University’s School of Information Studies and the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information at l’Université de Montréal.