An Introduction to Resource Discovery - online seminar

Magaly Bascones has more than 15 years’ experience in Discovery, Metadata and Usage in libraries, content providers and a service provider. Magaly has worked in several types of libraries and has contributed to different working groups and committees internationally. Currently, she is Discovery and Usage Manager for Gale, art of the Cengage Group

As Head of Collections and Archives at Edge Hill University, Anna França leads the 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 almost 17 years’ experience in the academic library sector. Anna is interested in the role that libraries can play in supporting a sustainable transition towards a more open research landscape. She is active in a range of professional networks and groups and chairs the USKG Education and Events sub-committee.

Dr Getaneh Alemu is a Cataloguing and Metadata Librarian at Solent University since 2014 and author of books and articles on metadata, including The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open and Filtered Metadata (Facet, 2022) and An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata: Enrich then Filter (2015, Chandos). He served as a member of IFLA's Linked Data Technical Sub-Committee (LIDATEC) and served as the Program Chair for the International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR-2017) and as Workshop Chair for MTSR-2018. He is also an editorial board member of three LIS journals. In addition to his professional roles, Getaneh teaches a metadata and taxonomies module at Dundee University on a part-time basis. He received his Ph.D. in Metadata (Information Science) from the University of Portsmouth in 2014.

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 Head of Collections and Archives at Edge Hill University, Anna França leads the 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 almost 17 years’ experience in the academic library sector. Anna is interested in the role that libraries can play in supporting a sustainable transition towards a more open research landscape. She is active in a range of professional networks and groups and chairs the USKG Education and Events sub-committee.

Magaly Bascones has more than 15 years’ experience in Discovery, Metadata and Usage in libraries, content providers and a service provider. Magaly has worked in several types of libraries and has contributed to different working groups and committees internationally. Currently, she is Discovery and Usage Manager for Gale, art of the Cengage Group

Marshall Breeding is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. He is the creator and editor of Library Technology Guides and the libraries.org online directory of libraries on the Web. His column Systems Librarian appears in Computers in Libraries; he is the Editor for Library Technology Newsletter, published through Library Technology Guides. From 2002 through 2021 he was the editor and contributor for Smart Libraries Newsletter published by the American Library Association, and has authored the annual Library Systems Report published in American Libraries since 2014 and in Library Journal from 2002-2013. He has authored fourteen issues of ALA's Library Technology Reports, and has written many other articles and book chapters. Marshall has edited or authored eight books. He regularly teaches workshops and gives presentations at library conferences on a wide range of topics.

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).

Marshall Breeding is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. He is the creator and editor of Library Technology Guides and the libraries.org online directory of libraries on the Web. His column Systems Librarian appears in Computers in Libraries; he is the Editor for Library Technology Newsletter, published through Library Technology Guides. From 2002 through 2021 he was the editor and contributor for Smart Libraries Newsletter published by the American Library Association, and has authored the annual Library Systems Report published in American Libraries since 2014 and in Library Journal from 2002-2013. He has authored fourteen issues of ALA's Library Technology Reports, and has written many other articles and book chapters. Marshall has edited or authored eight books. He regularly teaches workshops and gives presentations at library conferences on a wide range of topics.

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).

Dr Getaneh Alemu is a Cataloguing and Metadata Librarian at Solent University since 2014 and author of books and articles on metadata, including The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open and Filtered Metadata (Facet, 2022) and An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata: Enrich then Filter (2015, Chandos). He served as a member of IFLA's Linked Data Technical Sub-Committee (LIDATEC) and served as the Program Chair for the International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR-2017) and as Workshop Chair for MTSR-2018. He is also an editorial board member of three LIS journals. In addition to his professional roles, Getaneh teaches a metadata and taxonomies module at Dundee University on a part-time basis. He received his Ph.D. in Metadata (Information Science) from the University of Portsmouth in 2014.

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.