Cataloging and Metadata Services
The Cataloging and Metadata Services (CMS) department creates, enhances, and maintains high-quality descriptive metadata for the digital and physical resources acquired or created by the University of Maryland and high-quality authority records in the LC/NACO authority file. We contribute to the review and enhancement of discovery tools and systems used in the UMD Libraries, enabling access to materials through the creation and manipulation of MARC and non-MARC metadata. We collaborate with stakeholders on metadata needs for new collections and digitization projects, seeking to cultivate a seamless discovery experience. We support the discovery and research process through the use of bibliographic databases and knowledge bases and engage in database corrections and collection relocation. Our decisions and actions are informed by the international Cataloguing Code of Ethics. Through all of these activities, we support the teaching and research programs of the University.
Department members use a variety of schema and standards, contributing to their development and application. We share language and bibliographic format expertise and participate in local, regional, and national cooperative programs including:
- University System of Maryland & Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) Metadata Committee, ILS Migration Cataloging Subject Matter Team, and ILS Migration Electronic Resources Management Subject Matter Team: share expertise in the USMAI consortium
- Big Ten Academic Alliance Cataloging Partnership: share language and format expertise across the consortium
- Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC): contribute high quality records and subject proposals conforming to approved standards, which are shared internationally
- BIBCO – including the Music Funnel: create and enhance bibliographic records for monographs
- CONSER: create and enhance bibliographic records for continuing resources
- NACO – including the NACO Music Project: create and enhance authority records for personal, corporate, series, and jurisdictional names, as well as titles for works and expressions
- SACO: propose new subject and genre headings and classification numbers
- Library of Congress Electronic Cataloging in Publication Cataloging Partnership Program: act as a virtual Library of Congress cataloging section to catalog forthcoming titles
- OCLC Member Merge Project: identify duplicate WorldCat records in the OCLC database and merge them
- PCC Wikidata Pilot Project: create and enhance Wikidata entities related to collections of interest at the University of Maryland while collaborating in a cohort of libraries on common best practices and shared resources
- Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC): edit, merge, and create SNAC records, increasing discoverability of UMD’s archival collections and their relationship to other archival collections worldwide
Personnel
Kathy Glennan
Director, Cataloging and Metadata Services
Beth Guay
Continuing Resources Librarian
Beth Iseminger
IPAM Cataloger
Alice LaSota
Music Cataloging Librarian
Steve Quintilian
Music Cataloging Coordinator
Metadata Creation and Enhancement:
Audrey Chen
East Asian Cataloging Coordinator
Sarah Hovde
Monograph and Media Cataloger
Bobbie Mallett
Special Collections Cataloger
Andrea Schuba
Monographs Cataloging Librarian
Lisa Shiota
Metadata Librarian
Sam Taavoni
Persian Cataloging Coordinator
Metadata Production and Management:
Erica Hemsley
Coordinator, Metadata Production and Management
Paul Bushmiller
Database Editor / Copy Cataloger
Jennifer Doherty
Metadata Specialist Coordinator
Tran Nguyen
End Processing Specialist
Aaron Wilson
Database Editor / Copy Cataloger