About me
Meet Sorahya
Library cataloguer
The genesis of my interest in library sciences was as an elementary latchkey-kid in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. The library served as my home before home, where I saw firsthand how library services strengthen and educate communities.
My library career began in 2022 as a library aide for Broward County in the small (but mighty) Dania Beach Paul DeMaio Library. During my short tenure, I began a Master of Science in Forest Resources and Conservation program at the University of Florida, with a specialization in Ecological Restoration. It was at the Dania Beach Library that my love for public service was cultivated.
Since then, I have worked in a municipal library as the assistant to the Children’s Librarian, and as a Cataloguer with the University of Miami, which is my current role. Outside of work, I have volunteered and interned with the Library of Congress providing metadata for historic collections such as International Legal Gazettes, served as an Instructional Assistant to an undergraduate Information Policy and Ethics course, and will serve on the University of South Florida’s RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Steering Group for the 2026-2027 school year.
Throughout my exploration, I have grown a deep appreciation and passion for metadata and teaching. I aspire to carry with me the principles of academic librarianship and cataloguing into the next chapter of my career.
All artifacts, reflections, narratives, and examples are mine alone (except where indicated as a group or team project), and have been prepared solely by me.
I am protecting the privacy of the contents of my Portfolio by designating private versus public pages, making it viewable only to those with the link, password protecting it, and/or restricting access to some sections.
Any publicly accessible pages have been deliberately designed and approved by me so that they may be used for potential job search or other public access to my professional portfolio or web page.
Before making my Portfolio public, I will respect the privacy of others by modifying or removing information that could lead to the identity of individuals (team members in group projects, internship supervisors, interviewees, etc.) and institutions.
Sorahya Woods