Library Staff—Heather Perkins

Library Responsibilities:

• Maintains Library Catalog so that library patrons can find items that the Library owns.
• Accurately describes books and other materials within the Library.
• Creates metadata for the Library's materials of both print and electronic collections.
• Supervises two technically-trained cataloging assistants.
• Corrects the data in the OPAC database so that it may be used as part of a future relational-database project.
• Inventories the Library's collection at regular intervals.

Contact me with questions or instruction about:

Liaison Areas:

Areas of Interest:

• Database functions and structures
• Controlled Vocabularies
• Folksonomies/Tagging
• Customer Service

Education:

• M.S.L.S., University of North Texas, Denton, TX: College of Information
• B.A., Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA: History

Professional Information:

• 5 years experience in cataloging/metadata management.
• 16 years experience in interlibrary loan.
• Programs used include OCLC, Docline, Ariel, ILLiad, and Microsoft Office programs.
• Member, TexShare ILL Working Group (2000-2006