Metadata & Discovery Systems Librarian
Arkansas State University
Wendy Crist is the Metadata & Discovery Systems Librarian at Arkansas State University. She received her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of South Carolina and began her library career at the University of Georgia Libraries. For the last 9 years she has been active in the ARKLink Library Consortium and serves as the main webmaster for the consortium. She also serves as a member of the ExLibris Voyager Users Group and since 2022 has been active in the ExLibris Summon Users Group serving as a member of the Summon Enhancements Team. Recently, she began serving as the liaison to the ExLibris Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness in Search Advisory Group. The goal of this group is to identify, mitigate and diffuse bias found in metadata and in discovery results when performing searches of academic content within the Central Discovery Index. Recently, she has been researching tools and workflows for ensuring inclusiveness in metadata with a focus on ways for understaffed libraries who lack the budget for outsourcing authority work to manage DEIA in their catalogs and discovery interfaces.
Sunday, June 25, 2023
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CT