As Principal Cataloger at the Duke University Libraries, I provide leadership and cohesion in the application of international cataloging standards and practices in Collections Services. I work to strengthen existing partnerships and work in close collaboration with CS managers across the system who are responsible for original and copy cataloging. In addition, I work with my colleagues to build on Duke’s longstanding participation in national and international programs, such as the Program for Cooperative Cataloging and the OCLC Member Merge program.
I specialize in cataloging monographic materials in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, and related languages. I create and enhance bibliographic records in the global database WorldCat as well as in Duke's library catalog to ensure access to our rich collections of Latin American and Iberian materials by local users and researchers around the world.
Background
I have 30 years of experience as a technical services librarian in large academic libraries, most of which I've spent concentrating on Romance-language materials. Before coming to Duke in 2002, I worked as a Latin American and Iberian resources cataloger at Vanderbilt University and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
I'm a Raleigh native and earned my BA in International Studies and MS in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I've also taken Irish-language courses with Oideas Gael in Gleann Cholm Cille, Co. Donegal, and with the Coláiste na Rinne in Dún Garbhán in the Gaeltacht na nDéise.
