SarahLouise McDonald

Academic Support Librarian

Biography

Background

SarahLouise works as part of the Academic Support Team to deliver support to Edinburgh Law School, the Centre for Open Learning, and the College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences. As the former Librarian to the Sheriff Courts of Scotland and current convenor of the Scottish Law Librarians' Group she has gained years of experience in law librarianship.

She has a keen interest in the equitable provision of access to information, widening participation and critical information literacy.

SarahLouise was awarded the award for CILIP Scotland's Library and Information Professional of the Year 2022. 

Qualifications

PG Certificate Academic Practice

Chartered member of the Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)

MSc Information and Library Science

MA Hons English and Scottish Literature

Responsibilities & affiliations

Professional Registration (Chartership) Mentor: CILIP

Convenor: Scottish Law Librarians' Group

Lead: ASL Equity, Diversity & Inclusion working group

Papers delivered

Findlay, J. & McDonald, S. 'Courting Failure, Laying Down the Law'. SLA Europe Conference, Cambridge (2019). 

Love-Rodgers, C. & McDonald, S. 'Advance Your Library Research: supporting student dissertation research at the University of Edinburgh Library'. CILIPS Conference, Dundee (2022). 

Love-Rodgers, C. & McDonald, S. 'Catapulted by Covid-19 : hitting new information literacy targets at the University of Edinburgh'. LILAC Conference, Manchester (2022). 

McDonald, S. 'All Librarians are Teaching Librarians'. CILIPS Conference, Dundee (2023). 

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