Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians English 2009

Priscilla Caplan, one of the nation's leading systems experts, presents a comprehensive and clear description of the various forms of metadata, its applications, and how librarians can put it to work. Both descriptive and nondescriptive forms of metadata are defined (including the TEI header, the Dublin Core, EAD, GILS. ONIX, and the Data Documentation Initiative) and applied to actual I Library functions. Illustrations show how different farms of metadata look, advantages and advantages, and where they're best applied in the library. Geared to librarians who need a Solid Foundation I understanding and using the metadata "efficiently, Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians' the first stop for public and Academic librarians, catalogers, and digital and reference librarians in their journey through the metadata landscape. Priscilla Caplan is assistant director Digital Library Services at the Florida Center for Library Automation in Gainesville, Florida. She was previously assistant director for Library Systems at the University of Chicago Library and head of the Systems Development Division of the Office for Information Systems in the Harvard University Library. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is deeply interested in metadata and Standards issues related to digital Libraries and has been chair of the MARBI committee of the U.S. MARC Advisory Group, chair of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Standards Development Committee, and a member of the Dublin Core Advisory Committee.