Hannah Sutherland
Open Science & Collections Librarian, Subject Liaison for IoES
Science & Engineering Library
Boelter Hall, Room 8270-J
Los Angeles, CA 90095
(310) 794-0254
hsutherland@library.ucla.edu
Hannah Sutherland (she/her) is the Open Science and Collections Librarian for Engineering and the Physical Sciences and serves as the subject librarian for the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. In her role as an Open Science Librarian, she assists the UCLA community with open access publishing, funder mandate compliance, and open research principles like open data, protocols, methods, and educational resources. For any assistance with IoES projects or assignments, please feel free to email her or schedule a research consultation. She’s available to help with any stage of the research process, including developing a thesis or research question, finding, citing and analyzing sources and creating a literature review.
She also works with the Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and the Cluster program. Prior to this role, she worked for five years as an Instructional Designer at the Library, creating scalable and accessible online learning resources and collaborating with instructors to include information literacy focused learning outcomes in support of assignments. She is particularly passionate about critical pedagogy, Universal Design for Learning, critical access, open research and critical openness.
Hannah is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts where she studied Filmmaking. She also holds an MLIS from UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies with a specialization in Academic Librarianship. In her free time, she’s an avid reader, home cook, backpacker, climber, yoga enthusiast, and board/video game player.