Metadata: Making an ImpactJosie Caplehorne & Clair Waller

Life Before the University of Kent

KCC Libraries6 and a half years

Library Assistant /Admin Assistant

• Front line experience• Stock control• Working with general public• No cataloguing knowledge

Canterbury Christ Church University14 months

Library Assistant & Senior Library Assistant –Serials

• Front of house duties• Supervisory role• Some metadata work• Some acquisitions work

Bexley Libraries13 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 School1 and a half years working 1-2-1

with children with Special Educational Needs.

ClairJosie

Library team structureInformation Services (IS)

Library Services

Library Collections

Academic Liaison Services (ALS) and Special Collections

Collection Management

MetadataTony Whitehurst

Clair WallerJosie CaplehorneMaggie AwadallaRachel Dickinson

Digital Resources and Serials

Acquisitions and Processing

Front Line Services (FLS)

Lending Services Stock Control

Life at Kent

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

• Is it what we expected?• How does it

feel?• Immediate

impacts!• Challenges

Future Gazing

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

• 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: c.waller@kent.ac.uk (Working with metadata for 20 months)

Josie Caplehorne: j.caplehorne@kent.ac.uk (Working with metadata for 19 months)