Metadata Librarian
University of Central Florida
Sai Deng is the Metadata Librarian and Associate Librarian at the University of Central Florida. She received her M.L.S. from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC GSLIS) in 2005. She was the Metadata Catalog Librarian at Wichita State University Libraries from 2005 to 2012. Prior to coming to the U.S, she was an editor for the Commercial Press International and a newsletter editor for the Sanlian Joint Publishing in Beijing, China.
Sai has served on many ALA committees and interest groups, such as ALA Core/ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Research, Metadata, and Cataloging Norms. She has also been serving on the ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee Subcommittee on Faceted Vocabularies, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Committee for Equity and Inclusion GLAM Diversity subgroup and the Wikidata:WikiProject Chinese Culture and Heritage Group. In addition, she served on the Sunshine State Digital Network Metadata Working Group.
Her scholarly interests are focused on digital libraries, metadata, data documentation and Chinese studies. She has published papers in peer-reviewed journals including New Library World, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, OCLC Systems & Services, the Journal of Library Metadata, and Chinese Librarianship: an International Electronic Journal.
Sunday, June 25, 2023
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CT