Here is your brief guide to the new librarians joining the York University Libraries team this year.

Haiyun Cao joins the Libraries’ team as Bibliographic Services Librarian. Haiyun graduated in library science at McGill University, and also has a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Her background experience includes teaching computer science, research on OCR software for digitized manuscripts, project management for World Bank projects, and an appointment as Digital Project Metadata librarian at the University of Florida in Gainesville working on original cataloguing and in metadata harvesting projects.

Sarah Coysh joins the Libraries as the E-Learning Librarian.  Sarah has a B.A. in French and Music, B.Ed. and M.Ed. degrees from Queen's University, as well as her MISt from the University of Toronto. Sarah is not entirely new to York: she has been providing reference services part-time at Frost Library during the past year. Sarah’s office location and home department are in Frost Library.

William Denton is the Web Librarian and also a reference librarian at the Peter F. Bronfman Business Library. Bill has a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Trinity College and a Master of Information Science, both from the University of Toronto. Bill comes to York with experience as Web Librarian for Toronto Public Library, Taxonomy and Metadata Specialist at the Hospital for Sick Children and a Senior Programmer from the Canadian telecommunications company Allstream. In these positions he contributed to website development, developed online thesauri, and served as webmaster.

Rajiv Nariani has been appointed as Science Librarian at the Steacie Science & Engineering Library. Rajiv has a B.Sc. in Microbiology from Kolhapur University, India, an M.Sc. in Dairy Microbiology from the National Dairy Research Institute, India, a Masters degree in Environmental Studies from York University, as well as his MISt from the University of Toronto. Previous to his appointment as Science Librarian, Rajiv was employed as a Reference Assistant at the Steacie Library.

Instruction room, Bronfman Library