After four years as Senior Information Specialist with MaRS Market Intelligence, Helen Kula has accepted a new assignment with MaRS. She is now supporting a large-scale data initiative stewarded by MaRS on behalf of the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation. In this new role, Helen will be helping to build out the infrastructure to support the discovery, storage, and reuse of data collected from various government, non-profit, private-sector, and academic sources. She continues her cross-appointment with University of Toronto Libraries and is learning more about DDI, data schema and terminal servers than she thought possible.
This marks long-time editor Frances Wong’s last People on the Move column. We would like to thank Frances for her amazing work on the column over the years ans wish her the best in all her future endeavors.
We’d also like to welcome Kim Stymest as the new column editor. Kim graduated in 2010 from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information and has been working in academic and special/government library settings since. She has experience editing the Faculty of Information Quarterly during “library school,” co-wrote an article with Kate Petch that was in the Summer 2011 issue of the Courier, and writes for her personal blog. She is looking forward to working on the People on the Move column and picking up where Frances left off after her significant contributions to the column and newsletter.
People on the Move is a regular column highlighting the achievements of our members and helping us all keep in touch. Please share your career changes, retirements, life changes, or volunteer work with column editor Kim Stymest.