Sarah R. Kostelecky is an associate professor and the Director of Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication (DISC) at the University of New Mexico’s College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences She earned her Master’s in Library Science from the University of Arizona and was a Spectrum Scholar and in the Knowledge River program. Previously at UNM she served as the subject librarian for the College of Education and was part of the Indigenous Nations Library Program.

Prior to UNM, Sarah was the Library Director at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM and a youth services librarian in the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library system. Her research interests include Indigenous representation in library collections, outreach efforts to Indigenous communities, and cultural humility in libraries. She is from Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico.