iSchool Capstone

Rainbow Outreach GLBT Center Library Metadata Creation

Project tags:

archives & special collections

equity & inclusion

knowledge organization

Project poster

My project is the Rainbow Outreach GLBT Center Library Metadata Creation for The University of Nebraska Omaha, Archives and Special Collections, Queer Omaha Archives. None of the several thousand books donated had been cataloged prior to the beginning of my project. The sheer volume of material paired with a limited number of staff hampered the efforts to make holdings available to researchers and members of the LGBTQAI+ community. I created constant data and MARC records for the book collection, and over 450 books have been cataloged to date and can now be accessed through the UNO Criss Library catalog.

Project participants:

Maureen McCombs

MLIS