Education & Professional History
My work at Carleton:
I work in the Library as the Reference & Instruction Librarian for Humanities and Digital Scholarship. As part of that, I help students navigate the library, and find primary and secondary sources for class papers, comps, or independent projects. Come say hi when I’m sitting at the Research/IT Desk or I’m in my office!
I also supervise the Digital Humanities Associates and the Digital Scholarship Interns, and work closely with many other groups around campus and at St. Olaf to help support digital scholarship work. The thing that most excites me about digital scholarship is its potential for improving accessibility of scholarship, both in terms of reaching scholars with disabilities but also helping to cross language and writing system barriers.
Education:
* UW-Madison, MA ’11 (Library and Information Studies – multi-lingual computing and digital humanities)
* UW-Madison, MA ’06 (Languages and Cultures of Asia – history of Thai and Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist literature)
Carleton College, BA ’01 (Religion – Buddhism)
Languages studied:
French, Russian, Sanskrit, Pali, *Sinhala, *Thai, *Hindi
*Much of my graduate study was generously funded by the Madison Title VI (National Resource) Centers for South and Southeast Asia, including multiple rounds of FLAS Fellowships.
At Carleton since 2016.
Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations
Association of Asian Studies (AAS)
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) – South Asia Materials Project (SAMP)
CONSALD (Committee of South Asian Libraries and Documentation), Executive Board 2024-
Full list of scholarly work: https://www.zotero.org/sarahdcalhoun
Selected highlights:
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Pillow, Lisa, Sarah D. Calhoun, Brenda Hellen, and Christopher Eaker. “OER [Open Educational Resources] and
OEN [Open Educational Network].” Presented at the Ed Tech lunches, Carleton College, Northfield MN, April 18, 2024.
- Calhoun, Sarah D. “Spreadsheets! Or, My Path to Becoming Academic Staff.” Invited speaker at the Special Lunch Roundtable: Professional Development Roundtable: Pursuing Careers Outside the Tenure Track presented at the Madison South Asia Conference, Madison, WI, October 22, 2022.
- Anan, Brinna Pam, and Sarah D. Calhoun. “In a Lineage of Friends: What Asian Humanities Gives to Critical Librarianship.” The Journal of Creative Library Practice, December 9, 2021. https://creativelibrarypractice.org/2021/12/09/in-a-lineage-of-friends/.
- Calhoun, Sarah D., Claudia Petersen, and Emily Scharf. “Tracking Information Literacy at Critical Points in the College Experience: New Ideas and Established Projects.” Presented at the Up North: Reflect, Reconnect, Renew: LOEX conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 11, 2019.
- Sharpe, Celeste Tường Vy, Sarah D. Calhoun, and Austin Mason. “Enhancing Undergraduate Digital Research Methods and Skills by Connecting (Co-)Curricular Learning Opportunities.” Short talk presented at the From Evidence to Scholarship: Transforming undergraduate student research in the digital age, Reed College, March 15, 2018.
- Calhoun, Sarah D., Melissa Eblen-Zayas, Iris Jastram, Kristin Partlo, Janet Russell, and Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe. “Perspectives on Connecting SoTL: How to Use Our Distributed Past to Create a Collaborative Future.” Poster presented at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Conference, Bergen, Norway, October 26, 2018.
- Calhoun, Sarah D. “Librarians on the Periphery: Exploring Ways to Facilitate Digital Scholarship with Difficult Sources in a Small School Setting.” Invited Speaker at the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable presented at the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable, Washington, D.C., March 11, 2018.
- Hersey, Denise, Sarah D. Calhoun, Gwyneth Crowley, Jana Krentz, and Melissa Grafe. “Understanding the Research Practices of Humanities Doctoral Students at Yale University.” New Haven, CT: Yale University Library, May 2015.
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Calhoun, Sarah D. “Managing a Digitization Project: Arcadia 4, Old Yale Persian.” Invited roundtable participant, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India, November 6, 2013.
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Richie, Richard [Chair], Sarah D Calhoun [Chair], Mary Rader, Virginia Jing-yi Shih, Azusa Tanaka, and Keiko Yokota-Carter. “Regional and International Noteworthy Library Cooperation Networking Models: Japanese, South, and Southeast Asian Collections.” Roundtable presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, California, March 22, 2013.
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Calhoun, Sarah D. “Learning to See the Satsana as a Religion: Latthi Kho’ng Phu’an (Beliefs of Friends) by Sathiankoset and Nakhaprathip.” University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.