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Selected Works of Sarah H. Theimer

Description and Discovery Strategy Librarian, University of New Hampshire

My interest is in how words and language use impact librarianship. I have compared MARC death to language death and am examining how the power inherent in language is used in metadata and RDA. I have also studying the link between judgment and quality, how these terms are defined individually and institutionally. I also look at creativity and the role it plays in language and the work environment.

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About Sarah H. Theimer

My interest is in how words and language use impact librarianship. I have compared MARC death to language death and am examining how the power inherent in language is used in metadata and RDA. I have also studying the link between judgment and quality, how these terms are defined individually and institutionally. I also look at creativity and the role it plays in language and the work environment.

Present	Principal Cataloger and Metadata Librarian, Acquisitions and Cataloging Department, Bird Library, Syracuse University
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Library and Information Science

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Articles (2)

A Cataloger's Resolution be Become More Creative: How and Why (Sarah H. Theimer) Cataloging and Classification Quarterly (2012)

Creativity is now a core requirement for successful organizations. Libraries, like all organizations, need to produce and utilize new ideas to improve user service and experiences. With changes in cataloging such as Resource Description and ...

What Language Death and Language Planning Tell Us About MARC and RDA (Sarah H. Theimer) Journal of Library Metadata (2012)

All metadata politics is local : Developing Meaningful Metadata Quality Measurements. (Sarah H. Theimer) New Directions in Information Organization (2013)

Cataloging Theory meets the Real World (Sarah H. Theimer) (2012)

Miscellaneous Metadata : blog (Sarah H. Theimer) Libraries' and Librarians' Publications (2012)

Blog about developments in metadata and cataloging, national developments, and changes implemented by the Syracuse University Library.

Linked Data Pilot Project at Syracuse University Libraries (Brian Dobreski and Sarah Theimer) Libraries' and Librarians' Publications (2014)

Provides general information about the semantic web, RDF and the initiation of a pilot project at the Syracuse University Library

Library Publishing at Syracuse University (Yuan Li, Suzanne E. Guiod, Suzanne M. Preate, et al.) Libraries' and Librarians' Publications (2014)

Syracuse University Libraries (SUL) engage in a wide range of publishing activities, including ETDs, journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and grey literature (e.g., working papers and technical reports). This poster focuses specifically on journal publishing at ...

A Hitchhiker's guide to the future of cataloging: Public Services Edition (Sarah H. Theimer) Libraries' and Librarians' Publications (2013)

Provides and overview of changes coming due to the adoption of RDA. Discusses the Bibliographic Framework Initiative which is developing a replacement for MARC.

Wiki start up Advice: using a Wiki for Intra and Interdepartmental Communication (Sarah H. Theimer) ELUNA 2008 (2008)

Will a wiki work? (Sarah H. Theimer) ExLibris Mid-Atlantic User Group (2007)

Cataloging Images: a Collaboration of Technical and Public Services (Sarah H. Theimer, Bobbi Gwilt, Glenn Wiley, et al.) Ex Libris Northeast User Group (2004)

Syracuse University Library has used MARC to catalog slightly over 400 specific images used in teaching a large introductory art history class. As the title suggests this project is of interest from two perspectives: technical ...