Metadata: Making an Impact

Josie Caplehorne & Clair Waller

Life Before the University of Kent

Josie Bexley Libraries

13 years and 7 months Saturday Assistant, Library Assistant, Senior Library Assistant • • • • • • • Front line experience Managerial duties Events management Stock control Working with general public Outreach visits No cataloguing knowledge

A Bexley Council Primary School

1 and a half years working 1-2-1 with children with Special Educational Needs.

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Clair KCC Libraries

6 and a half years Library Assistant /Admin Assistant Front line experience Stock control Working with general public No cataloguing knowledge

Canterbury Christ Church University

14 months Library Assistant & Senior Library Assistant –Serials • • • • Front of house duties Supervisory role Some metadata work Some acquisitions work

Library team structure

Information Services (IS) Library Services Front Line Services (FLS) Library Collections Lending Services Academic Liaison Services (ALS) and Special Collections Collection Management Digital Resources and Serials Metadata

Tony Whitehurst Clair Waller Josie Caplehorne Maggie Awadalla Rachel Dickinson

Acquisitions and Processing Stock Control

Life at Kent

• • • • Is it what we expected?

How does it feel?

Immediate impacts!

Challenges © Joseph Lee, Evening News, 16 Mar 1936 , British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent

© Joseph Lee, Evening News, 29 Dec 1942, British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent.

Future Gazing

• What’s Next?

• Shout louder!!

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills”

Chinese proverb

© Muggeridge Collection, (Windmill) Hildenborough, Kent, England, 1936, Special Collections & Archives, University of Kent

© Vicky (Victor Weisz), Evening Standard, 06 Jan 1964, British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent.

Clair Waller: [email protected]

(Working with metadata for 20 months) Josie Caplehorne: [email protected]

(Working with metadata for 19 months)