[Metadatalibrarians] Metadata and Digital Collections: a Festschrift in honor of Tom Turner

[Glen Wiley]

The long-awaited festschrift in honor of Tom Turner is now available:*

Metadata and Digital Collections: a Festschrift in honor of Tom Turner*
Edited by Elaine Westbrooks, Associate Dean of University Libraries at 
the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and Keith Jenkins, GIS/Geospatial 
Applications Librarian at Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library

Ithaca, New York, USA: Cornell University Library, 2009.

The festschrift can be accessed at: *http://cip.cornell.edu/Turner  *

In the words of Janet McCue, Associate University Librarian for 
Teaching, Research, Outreach, and Learning Services at Cornell 
University Library:

"This work was inspired by Tom Turner, a Metadata Librarian at Cornell 
University. Tom was a metadata librarian before it was fashionable to 
have one on the staff. He explored and contributed to the fast 
developing field of metadata standards and applications and then guided 
us into the jungle. Tom was serious with a great sense of humor; he was 
passionate about libraries and poetry; he cared deeply about his friends 
and his family. He died much too young of complications from a malignant 
melanoma. Tom once wrote a note to an aspiring librarian who was curious 
about the role of metadata librarians. Tom said that the goal of all of 
his projects is 'to contribute to our understanding of the most 
effective ways to make use of metadata.' I suspect that the authors of 
these chapters have a similar goal in mind and hope that their writings 
will inspire future metadata librarians."

The contributors for this festschrift include: William J. Kara, Karen 
Calhoun, Martin Kurth, Jon Corson-Rikert, Joy Paulson, Nathan Rupp, Adam 
Chandler, Peter B. Hirtle, Diane I. Hillmann.

Thank you also to Shin-Woo Kim, David Ruddy, and Steve Rokitka for their 
work on making this work digitally available.


-- Glen

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Glen Wiley
Chief Metadata Librarian
Database Management & Metadata Services
107B Olin Library
Cornell University
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