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Dr. Bob Wolverton

Professor / Metadata Initiatives Librarian

Remediate and transform metadata to support resource discovery; provide authority control and database integrity practices for the MSU Libraries and all other libraries in the Mississippi Library Partnership (MLP) state consortium; coordinate MSU Libraries metadata work with policies and programs of the Library of Congress’s Program for Cooperative Cataloging, including: BIBCO, NACO, SACO, and EMCO; create new bibliographic records used by the Library of Congress’s Cataloging in Publication Program (CIP).

Areas of expertise

    • Cataloging and Metadata
    • Authority Control
    • Linked Data
    • Library of Congress's Program for Cooperative Cataloging including BIBCO, NACO, SACO, and EMCO
    • Library of Congress's Cataloging in Publication Program
    • Data Enrichment

Education

    • MLIS (Library and Information Science) 2000 Louisiana State University

    • Ed.D. (Counselor Education) 1990 Mississippi State University

    • M.S. (Personnel Services and Counseling) 1978 Miami University

    • B.A. (English) 1976 Miami University

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