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Barbara Cormack Staff Profile

Barbara Cormack

Program / Service

Discovery & Delivery

Job Title

Senior Metadata Analyst

Pronouns

she/her

Responsibilities

Barbara’s primary responsibility is as metadata analyst for Zephir, the bibliographic metadata management system for HathiTrust.

Education

M.L.S. State University of New York, Albany

M.A. English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

B.A. Medieval Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Background

Prior to joining CDL, Barbara was a project manager for Equinox Open Library Initiative, working with libraries implementing the open source ILS Evergreen. She joined Equinox after working in the UC Berkeley Acquisitions department managing e-resources. Before coming to Berkeley she was with Innovative Interfaces, Inc. for a number of years where she held positions as Data Analyst and Product Analyst.

Professional Interests

  • Metadata standards and management systems
  • ILS software
  • Classification systems

Committees / Affiliations

  • UC Cataloging Metadata Common Knowledge Group
  • Northern California Technical Processes Group