Rafia Mirza
Librarian at SMU Libraries
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafia Mirza is a scholarly communication and digital scholarship librarian with over a decade of experience designing and delivering digital humanities, data literacy, and project planning programs at research libraries. Currently at SMU Libraries, she teaches workshops on data and text mining and serves as a liaison across humanities disciplines, blending instruction, collections, and digital project support. Her background includes a Digital Humanities Librarian role at UT Arlington and a University of Michigan fellowship, giving her deep roots in reference, instruction, and subject liaison work. Rafia recently expanded her technical toolkit with an MS in Data Science from SMU, positioning her at the intersection of librarianship and applied data methods. She is passionate about translating humanities research questions into reproducible digital projects and often guides faculty and students through practical project workflows. Colleagues describe her as a planner-oriented collaborator who brings both domain knowledge and hands-on technical teaching to campus research initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
N/A, University of Minnesota, N/A, University of Minnesota at University of MinnesotaMaster of Science in Information, Library and Information Services (LIS), Master of Science in Information, Library and Information Services (LIS) at University of Michigan - School of InformationB.A, English Literature, American Studies and Psychology, B.A, English Literature, American Studies and Psychology at University at BuffaloMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at Southern Methodist University
Github Skills (21)
digital-humanities8
loops7
spanish7
java7
creative-commons6
python6
stable3
glossary3
data-science3
machine-learning3
data-management3
nltk2
nlp2
text-mining2
mining2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SouthernMethodistUniversity/intro
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
Style guide for the Digital Research Institute curriculum
Contributions:3 releases, 127 pushes, 3 tags in 3 years 6 months
curriculumdigital-researchcssstyle-guideinstitute
librarianrafia/cv
Dec 2021 - Oct 2024
a simple template to write your CV in a readable markdown file and use CSS to publish/print it.
Contributions:82 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 11 months
publishsimple-templatereadablemarkdown-filecss
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