Amina Malik, MA
University Library
Bridge to Faculty Research Scholar
Pronouns: she/her
About
Amina Malik is a Digital Publishing Librarian and Research Associate at the University of Illinois Chicago Library. Malik is a former graduate of the master’s in Library and Information Science program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where she specialized in research data management and South Asia librarianship.
Within area studies, Malik is a member of the Outreach Working Group of the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA), and has supported the amplification of open-accessible South Asian archival materials by way of social media outreach to a community of students, educators, and librarians. During summer of 2023, Malik was selected to be a part of
the Junior Fellows Program with the Asian Division of the Library of Congress (LC), during which she enhanced discoverability of non-English, South Asian Language serials on LC’s online catalog through a detailed inventory of the division’s holdings. Most recently, Malik participated in the Mary and Samuel Somit Preservation internship at the University of Chicago Library, and has conducted a thorough privacy review on a collection of anthropological photographs from South and Southeast Asia to be exhibited on the library’s digital collections platform.
Malik has spent the last two years with Research Data Service (RDS) at UIUC’s library, where she supported the Illinois community of students and scholars with data curation and management. At UIC, Malik’s research aims to examine the impact of research data management across labs and fieldwork, spanning multiple working-groups, institutions, and localities. Furthermore, Malik is interested in researching trends of data management, sharing, and reproduction across countries where academic libraries are not afforded an infrastructure to support scholars in pursuit of academic publishing. Malik hopes to deduce gaps in these services and identify ways in which librarians can access professional development training to advocate for, and implement research data management in their information sharing spaces.