Congratulations to PAM President Elect Sarah Siddiqui, one of the Special Library Association’s 2023 JAMES M. MATARAZZO Rising Stars!
Sarah is a STEM Librarian at the University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries (RCL) where she supports the research needs for the departments of Mechanical Engineering, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. She has been at RCL since fall of 2018 and currently represents the libraries at the university-wide staff council. Sarah joined SLA within a few months of starting her role and became involved in the PAM (Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics) and Upstate NY divisions. She was the treasurer for UNYSLA in 2019 and is the current president-elect for the PAM Community. Within PAM, she helped with planning sessions and moderated the Physics round tables at previous SLA conferences. Sarah received her MS in Information Science from the University at Albany, SUNY and is pursuing her MS in Data Science at the University of Rochester.