{"id":15707,"date":"2023-12-21T23:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T23:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/?p=15707"},"modified":"2023-12-21T23:59:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T23:59:20","slug":"cass-wilkinson-saldana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/cass-wilkinson-saldana\/","title":{"rendered":"Cass\u00a0Wilkinson\u00a0Salda\u00f1a: Social Sciences Data Librarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/12\/Wilkinson_Saldana_Cass-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"headshot\" class=\"wp-image-15709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/12\/Wilkinson_Saldana_Cass-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/12\/Wilkinson_Saldana_Cass-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/12\/Wilkinson_Saldana_Cass.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Library is pleased to announce the appointment of&nbsp;Cass&nbsp;Wilkinson&nbsp;Salda\u00f1a&nbsp;(they\/them) as the Social Sciences Data Librarian. In this position,&nbsp;Cass&nbsp;will build and strengthen partnerships and provide instruction and research support for programs in Economics, Sociology, Public Policy, and other research areas that rely on numeric, financial, polling, and survey data. This is an exciting expansion of the Library\u2019s team of data specialists!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cass&nbsp;brings expertise working with data in academic libraries, public health, and education. Most recently they have worked as a Research Associate and Data Analyst at Dataspark at the University of Rhode Island Library.&nbsp;Cass&nbsp;worked in Philadelphia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak supporting the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute and as a member of the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health\u2019s Enterprise Data Team. Before moving to Philadelphia, they worked as the Social Science and Geospatial Data Librarian at Cornell University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cass&nbsp;earned their Master of Science in Information from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) with a focus on Library Science and Computational Social Science, and their Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Macalester College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cass\u2019s first day will be Monday, May 15, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library is pleased to announce the appointment of&nbsp;Cass&nbsp;Wilkinson&nbsp;Salda\u00f1a&nbsp;(they\/them) as the Social Sciences Data Librarian. In this position,&nbsp;Cass&nbsp;will build and strengthen partnerships and provide instruction and research support for programs in Economics, Sociology, Public Policy, and other research areas that rely on numeric, financial, polling, and survey data. This is an exciting expansion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/cass-wilkinson-saldana\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Cass\u00a0Wilkinson\u00a0Salda\u00f1a: Social Sciences Data Librarian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-page","category-staff-transitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15722,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707\/revisions\/15722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}