Sian Evans is an experienced librarian and published author with over 10 years of experience working at ARTstor, where she currently serves as Senior Implementation Manager. She holds masters degrees in Library and Information Science and Art History. Evans has managed relationships with over 35 institutions as clients of ARTstor's Shared Shelf media management software. She is also involved in several professional organizations and has co-organized international Wikipedia edit-a-thons on women in the arts.

1. 342 BOND ST, APT. 3B
BROOKLYN, NY 11231 CURRICULUM VITAE
SIÂN EVANS
T: (516) 672-8862
E: SIAN.K.EVANS@GMAIL.COM
OVERVIEW
Published librarian with 4+ years’ experience impacting learning communities via library information systems and providing
high-quality, up–to–date database resources. Incorporated product management savvy to support the implementation of a
multimedia management system on an institutional basis and market the software broadly. Utilized comfort with metadata,
instruction, and technology to implement Shared Shelf on over 35 campuses in the US and Canada. Conducted research and
published articles on issues around open access and digital humanities. Co-organized an international Wikipedia edit-a-thon that
was covered in over 40 publications such as The Guardian, ARTnews, and LA Weekly and for which was named among Foreign
Policy Magazine’s Leading Global Thinkers, 2014.
RELEVANT SKILLS AND TRAINING
Integrated Instruction / Teaching | Reference/Information Desk Services | Activity Planning | Collection Development |
Committee Involvement | Staff Oversight | Cross–Function Collaboration | Marketing | Account Oversight | Copyright Policy |
Library of Congress Authorities | Getty Authorities | Metadata Management –Dublin Core, VRA Core and PB Core | Talisma
CRM | Lyris List Manager | Adobe Captivate | HTML & CSS | Wiki and Wikipedia Editing | Fluent in French | Reading
knowledge of Latin
and Italian
EDUCATION
MSLIS Pratt Institute, New York, NY
2012 Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship
MA University of Western Ontario, London, ON; Art History
2007 International Graduate Student Scholarship
Department of Visual Arts Travel Grant
BA McGill University (First Class Honours), Montreal, QC; Art History
2005 Paula Bonato Memorial Prize
James McGill Award
Hope Barrington Scholarship
Senator Phillips Lazarus Scholarship in Art History

2. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ARTSTOR
2010-PRESENT
2014-PRESENT
SR. IMPLEMENTATION
MANAGER
2013-2014
IMPLEMENTATION
MANAGER
2012-2013
SENIOR
LIBRARY
RELATIONS
ASSOCIATE
2010-2012
LIBRARY
RELATIONS
ASSOCIATE
 Manage customer relationships with over 35 institutions, from Rice
University to the CUNY system.
 Design and conduct online and video recorded trainings of Shared
Shelf’s cataloging and media management tools. Bolster affiliated unit
knowledge by conducting internal training and providing
communications.
 Manage data migration for web-based service via mapping/crosswalk of
legacy data to schema, partnering with database team.
 Lead presentations and facilitate meetings with key stakeholders such as
acquisitions librarians, university librarians, and CIOs.
 Manage project to develop the plugin for open source CMS, Omeka,
collaborating with George Mason University, where Omeka was
developed.
 Coordinated outreach for Shared Shelf to prospective institutions in the
United States and internationally & represented ARTstor at international
conferences, such as ARLIS/UK & Ireland and IFLA as well as domestic
conferences, such as ARLIS/NA, ACRL, CAA and FATE/MACAA.
 Discover and report bugs and enhancements, partering with the Quality
Assurance team to improve the Shared Shelf software.
 Executed licensing for the ARTstor Digital Library and Shared Shelf.
 Drew up fee estimates for Shared Shelf and liaised with the User
Services and Legal teams in the set-up of institutional access to both the
ARTstor Digital Library and Shared Shelf.
 Prepare and conduct training for new employees in multiple internal
systems and software; manage Strategic Services Assistant in
implementation of new subscribers to Shared Shelf.
NEW YORK
SCHOOL OF
INTERIOR DESIGN
SEPT-DEC 2011
LIBRARY INTERN
 Designed a policies and procedures guide for NYSID Library’s staff.
 Aided in the reclassification of NYSID Library’s collection from the
Dewey Decimal System to Library of Congress.
 Handled in-person and IM reference questions.
 Designed and conducted staff instruction for the ARTstor Digital
Library.
METROPOLITAN
MUSEUM OF ART
APRIL–AUG 2010
ACQUISITIONS
INTERN
 Coordinated research and mailing campaign to solicit contemporary
catalogs from Canadian art galleries.
 Searched book lists and suggested purchases.

3. FORBES
NEWSLETTERS
2007-2010
MARKETING
ASSOCIATE
 Wrote, edited and formatted Art Watch, an online publication on fine
art and collectibles, which reached over 30,000 subscribers on a bi-
weekly basis.
 Reported on and analyzed eight weekly e-letter sends to evaluate the
success of e-letter business.
 Managed advertising sales revenue, invoices, and billing.
 Oversaw Forbes Newsletters’ relationship with customer service
providers, streamlining their service and handling various
escalations.
UNIVERSITY OF
WESTERN ONTARIO
2005-2007
TEACHING ASSISTANT
VISUAL ARTS HISTORY :
EARLY MEDIEVAL ART;
HISTORY OF WESTERN
ART AND
CONTEMPORARY
THEORY
 Organized study groups and library/online research seminars.
Graded and edited undergraduate essays and exams.
 Met with students to discuss course and individual progress.
 Prepared and delivered weekly tutorials on the history of Western
art and contemporary theory.
 Developed a curriculum based on assigned readings in the history of
art theory with the objective of enhancing students’ critical and
theoretical skills as well as their historical knowledge.
UNIVERSITY OF
WESTERN ONTARIO
2006
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
PROFESSOR MADELEINE
LENNON AND KATHRYN
BRUSH
 Compiled bibliographic information in support of forthcoming
publications on Giovanni Morelli and Romanesque sculpture.
 Conducted online and journal research; prepared weekly annotated
bibliographies.
PUBLICATIONS
“‘Why Archive?’ And Other Important Questions Asked by Occupiers.”
Co-written with Anna Perricci and Amy Roberts. In Informed Agitation:
Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond (An Edited Collection), ed.
Melissa Morrone, 2014.
“Alternative Access Models: Enhancing the Discoverability
of Small Press and Avant-Garde Art Journals.”
Co-written with Amy Ballmer. In Art Documentation, 32:1, p. 33-42.

4. “Discovering Open Access Art History: A Comparative Study
of the Indexing of Open Access Art Journals.”
Co-written with Hilary Thompson and Alex Watkins.
In The Serials Librarian. 61:2, p. 168-188.
CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA/PRESENTATIONS
“Art+Feminism and the Gendered Archive,”
Co-presentation with Jacqueline Mabey.
Revising Revisionism Symposium, Brooklyn Museum,
17 May, 2015 (Invited Speaker)
“The Big Picture: Visualizing Data in Your Visual Resources Collections,”
Co-presentation with Erin McCall.
VRA 2015, Denver,
11-14 March, 2015 (Refereed Conference)
“Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thons,”
Co-presentation with Jacqueline Mabey and Michael Mandiberg.
WikiConferenceUSA, New York,
1-4 May, 2014 (Refereed Conference)
“Collaborative Projects in Open Access:
Enhancing the Discovery of Your Collections via the Digital Public Library of America,”
Co-moderator with Ian McDermott.
ARLiS/NA 2014, Washington DC,
1-4 May, 2014 (Refereed Conference)
“Collaborative Cataloging,”
Co-moderator with Amy Ballmer.
Electronic Resources & Libraries, The CUNY Graduate Center,
116-19 Mar, 2014 (Refereed Conference)
“Shared Shelf Workshop: Cataloging Performing Arts.”
THATCamp Performing Arts 2013, The CUNY Graduate Center,
21 June, 2013
“Occupy the Archive: Occupy the archive:
Reimagining power, politics, and the collective voice in contemporary art.”
InterPLAY Between Creativity and Information, York University,
26 March, 2012 (Refereed Conference)
“Mythologizing Meyer: Medieval, Modern, and Postmodern in Meyer Schapiro.”
Neomedievalisms, 22nd International Conference on Medievalism,
University of Western Ontario, 4-6 Oct, 2007 (Refereed Conference)
“The Book of Kells’ Sacred Serpents: The Margins of (Early) Medieval Art.”

5. Medieval Visual Environments and their Reception, Canadian Conference of
Medieval Art Historians, University of Guelph,
9-10 Mar, 2007 (Refereed Conference)
“Collective Identity and Collective Amnesia:
The Case of Josef Strzygowksi and German Art Historiography.”
Graduate Student Conference, Drawing a Blank, Depts. of Theory and Criticism,
Spanish and Comparative Literature, The University of Western Ontario,
22-24 Mar, 2007 (Refereed Conference)
“The Book of Kells’ Sacred Serpents: The Margins of (Early) Medieval Art.”
Graduate Student Conference, Context and Meaning IV, Dept. of Art History,
Queen’s University, 26-27 Jan, 2007 (Refereed Conference)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2010-PRESENT
Member, ARLIS/NA and ARLIS NY
2013-2015 Coordinator for Women and the Arts Special Interest Group, ARLIS/NA
2011-PRESENT
Member, VRA
2014-PRESENT
Co-organizer, international Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon
Named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s 2014 Leading Global Thinkers
Recipient of two Wikimedia Foundation grants (IEG and PEG)
342 BOND STREET, APT 3B| BROOKLYN, NY 112231 | T: (516) 672-8862 | E:
SIAN.K.EVANS@GMAIL.COM