Librarian, Global Law & Language Access
Los Angeles County Law Library
Los Angeles, California, United States
Sarah Martin joined the Los Angeles County Law Library team full-time in January 2023 as the Librarian for Global Law & Language Access after a successful internship the previous fall. They come from a linguistics and legal translation/interpretation background, having gotten their BA in Applied Linguistics from UCLA in 2014 and a Certificate in Spanish/English Legal Interpretation and Translation in 2015 while volunteering as a Spanish interpreter at Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, an immigration-focused legal public interest organization. After a career change to librarianship in 2017, they worked for the Santa Monica Public Library and New York Film Academy library in Burbank, and they recently graduated with their Master of Library & Information Science from San José State University in May of 2023. As part of the Public and Legal Education team, they are now a reference librarian with a specialty in handling the 300k+ materials in the library's Global Law collection. Sarah also is responsible for co-creating and developing global law programming, outreach, and reference. They are an L.A. native and a registered yoga teacher, and enjoy hiking, traveling, and writing.
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FCIL Cool Tools: Existing and Emerging Technologies for Around the World
Sunday, July 21, 2024
11:30am – 12:30pm CDT
Obscenity, Authoritarianism, and Blasphemy: The Global Context of Book Banning
Monday, July 22, 2024
3:30pm – 4:30pm CDT