Amanda Stevens
Director at Anchor Archive Zine Library & Zine Subject Thesaurus
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolAmanda Stevens is a director and information management specialist with over a decade crafting controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and metadata systems that improve discoverability for publishers, libraries, archives, and community organizations. She runs Curious Indexing & Consulting and combines scholarly indexing (notably for recent university press titles) with bespoke thesauri and information architecture work—often for politically sensitive and marginalized subject matter. A longtime zine-maker and co‑operator of the Anchor Archive Zine Library, she has developed the widely used Zine Subject Thesaurus and tailored cataloguing tools for alternative media that resist standard systems. Her background leading publishing services at the Public Knowledge Project shows she balances hands‑on metadata design with organizational strategy, open source platforms, and accessibility. Amanda’s practice is informed by commitments to metadata justice, reparative description, and Indigenous-centered taxonomies, bringing both technical rigor and community-centered care to collection work. Based in Halifax, she welcomes collaborative projects and travel to implement practical, equity-focused discovery systems.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Library and Information Studies, Library and Information Science, Master of Library and Information Studies, Library and Information Science at Dalhousie UniversityBA, English, BA, English at Simon Fraser University
English, French
Github Skills (26)
academia10
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ojs10
user-guide10
open-access10
web-application9
styles8
security8
appearance8
javascript8
citations7
creative-commons6
css6
health6
csl6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
amandastevens/omp
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Open Monograph Press
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 8 months
monographpress
amandastevens/ojs
May 2021 - Oct 2022
Open Journal Systems
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
journal
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