An Introduction to Resource Discovery - online seminar

As Collections Manager at Edge Hill University, Anna leads a team dedicated to managing and developing the library collections and University Archive. Prior to joining Edge Hill, she held roles at King’s College London and has over 15 years’ experience in the sector. Anna’s interests include data driven approaches to collection development and evaluation, and the role of libraries in supporting a sustainable transition towards a more open research landscape. She is active in a range of professional networks and groups including the USKG Education and events sub-committee and the Jisc Transitional agreements oversight group.  

Getaneh Alemu completed his PhD from the University of Portsmouth (2014). Since November 2014, he has been working for Solent University as head of the Cataloguing & Metadata team. He co-authored a book entitled “An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata: Enrich then Filter (2015), published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles on metadata, digital libraries, open access, Linked Data and Web 2.0 technologies. He served as a member of IFLA’s Linked Data Technical Sub-Committee (LIDATEC) and programme chair of International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - MTSR-2017 in Tallinn and workshop chair of MTSR-2018 in Cyprus. He is also an editorial board member of the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, and Digital Library Perspectives. Getaneh’s upcoming book is entitled “The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open and Filtered Metadata: Making Sense of IFLA LRM, RDA, Linked Data and BIBFRAME” due to be published on August 11^th 2022.

Manisha Sanghavi has 31 years of experience in Systems Librarianship and Information Technology from TATA to SAGE Publishing. She is a highly motivated and enthusiastic professional with excellent library and information science knowledge. She drives the discoverability of SAGE products in library systems and services for the success of the products with happy clientele across the globe. She has worked through restructures handled multiple projects and achieved success. Thinking out of the box is one of the key strategies she uses to overcome the issues swiftly. On the lighter side, she has become a storyteller with versions of them and courageously passes on the blame to the lockdown. She can share real-life experiences to look at the perspective of all possible dynamics of life along with active listening.

As Collections Manager at Edge Hill University, Anna leads a team dedicated to managing and developing the library collections and University Archive. Prior to joining Edge Hill, she held roles at King’s College London and has over 15 years’ experience in the sector. Anna’s interests include data driven approaches to collection development and evaluation, and the role of libraries in supporting a sustainable transition towards a more open research landscape. She is active in a range of professional networks and groups including the USKG Education and events sub-committee and the Jisc Transitional agreements oversight group.  

Sharon Farnel (MLIS, PhD) is the Head of Metadata Strategies at the University of Alberta Library (UAL) where she works to ensure the discoverability, accessibility, and preservation of cultural resources and knowledge products. She teaches at MacEwan University and the University of Alberta in the areas of metadata, digital libraries, and information organization. Her research interests include community driven knowledge organization, critical approaches to descriptive standards and practices, and linked data as applied in the library context. She is currently a member of the CRKN Preservation and Access Committee, Co-Chair of the NISO Information Creation and Curation Topic Committee, and a Technical Contributor to the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) project. She has a chapter in the forthcoming book Discoverability in Digital Repositories: Systems, Perspectives, and User Studies (Taylor & Francis Group, May 2023).