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Sarah Schwartz, Data Specialist, is a second year graduate student at San Jose State University pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science. She previously received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Arizona. She volunteers at the Los Angeles Public Library as a STAR reader, promoting literacy and the joy of reading with children ages 0-9. Sarah is also an active volunteer with Ukrainian Libraries in Wartime archives. She has helped fundraise by organizing a charity show at a comedy venue, as well as collecting children’s books at the 2025 ALA conference that were shipped directly to Ukraine. Her other work involves organizing and uploading metadata documenting the damage and destruction to Ukrainian libraries to an Omeka website, to further educate others on the impact the war has had on civilians and libraries.