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WORK HISTORY
Cornell University; Head of Metadata Services
October 2006-Present
Directs the Metadata Services Department, which provides metadata consultation, design, development, and data conversion services to support the digital collection management efforts of Cornell University Libraries (CUL), Cornell University, and University partners. Serves as Library Technical Services (LTS) principal resource and spokesperson on matters related to metadata solutions for CU digital collections and networked resource. Develops cost models and marketing strategies for department services. Develops and maintains strategic alliances with other CUL units to maintain Metadata Services as an integral component of thedigital collection management services offered by CUL. Works with the head of LTS to contribute to metadata policy development and system-wide implementation.
Cornell University, Library Technical Services at Albert R. Mann Library; Senior Metadata Librarian
August 2005-October 2006
Provides metadata consultation, design, and development services to support CUL digital collection management efforts. Performs a leadership role among metadata librarians with regard to the above services and directly supervises the metadata librarian in the Metadata Services Consulting Unit and a smaller percentage of the network resource librarian in the E-Resources unit of Library Technical Services. Works closely with staff throughout Technical Services and other divisions to provide access to the library’s collections. Serves as a primary metadata contact and library liaison with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Human Ecology faculty and staff; contributes to the library instruction program.
Cornell University, Technical Services, Albert R. Mann Library; Metadata Librarian
August 2000-August 2005
Analyzed new developments concerning metadata standards, and created and maintained repositories of non-MARC metadata i.e. CSDGM, Dublin Core, EAD, and TEI; Served as the metadata specialist for the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository. Facilitated access to resources through original cataloging of materials in various formats according to local and national standards; conducted staff training sessions in areas related to cataloging and metadata; additional responsibilities included library instruction.
University of Pittsburgh, University
Library System; Digital Research Librarian and Latin American Cataloger
September 1998-August 2000
Collected metadata and created the relational database for the Historic
Pittsburgh online plat map collection in the Digital
Research Library; Responsible for encoding archival finding aids to current
standards, applying the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) DTD and the International
Standard for Archival Description-G (ISAD-G); Hispanic/Latin American language
cataloger responsible for original, adaptive, and difficult copy cataloging
of materials in all formats in Spanish, Portuguese, and native Indian languages
chiefly published in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America.
Pittsburgh Public Schools, Belmar Elementary School; Technical Support Specialist
January 1996-June 1998
Monitored the computer network, the school homepage, troubleshooted, and repaired
personal computers. Additional responsibilities included reviewing educational
software, organizing and upgrading hardware and software; conducted technical
and software training for students and teachers.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Music &
Art Department; Clerk III & Clerical Supervisor
September 1991-January 1996
Supervised and managed clerical staff and volunteers. Duties included work scheduling,
managing payroll, timecards and all financial transactions. Monitored circulation
of audiovisual materials.
University of Pittsburgh, University
Library System; Student Assistant
September 1986-August 1991
Transliterated title pages, compiled international bibliographies for exchange,
translated letters, searched and verified bibliographic information on local
and national databases, and completed various clerical tasks in Government Publications,
Technical Services, and Gifts & Exchange.
PRESENTATIONS
•Living the Future 7 Conference, Transforming Libraries Through Collaboration Metadata Infrastructure for Data Curation,” University of Arizona, May 1, 2008.
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Purdue University Libraries, “Data Curation: Problem and Promise,” August 6, 2007.
• Linguistics Society of America Symposium on Language Documentation, Barbara Lust, Elaine L. Westbrooks, Suzanne Flynn, Theresa Tobin, “Developing Adequate Documentation for Multi-faceted Cross Linguistic Language Acquisition Data,” Boston, MA, July 9, 2005. Poster Presentation.
• National Agriculture Library, “Geospatial Resource Control through Metadata Management,” Beltsville, MD, May 5, 2005.
• USGS Policy Forum, “Geospatial Data and Rights: ODRL Geospatial Working Group Activities,” Washington DC, December 9, 2004.
• Dublin Core 2003, “Efficient Distribution and Synchronization
of Heterogeneous Metadata for Digital Library Management and Geospatial Information
Repositories,” Seattle, Washington, September 28, 2003.
Proceedings Available Online: <http://www.siderean.com/dc2003/204_Paper78.pdf>
• LITA National Forum, “Adding Value and Enhancing Access to GIS Repositories,”
Presenting with Jaime Martindale, Norfolk, Virginia, October 3-5, 2003.
• Joint International Conference of the Association
for Computers and the Humanities Association
for Literary and Linguistic Computing, “Creating a Virtual Center
as an International Web-Based Interactive Infrastructure for Research &
Teaching in the Language Sciences: A New Research and Library Collaboration,”
Presented with María Blume & Prof. Barbara Lust, Athens, Georgia,
May 29, 2003.
• Black Caucus of the ALA Presentation,
“Everything You Wanted to Know about Metadata, but Were Afraid to Ask”
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, August 14, 2002.
• Digital Library Forum Presentation “Moving Geospatial Metadata to MARC & OAI: The CUGIR
Model,” Presented with A. Chandler, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 16, 2001.
• CUL Metadata Working
Group Presentation, “Fun with Geospatial Metadata, CUGIR, CORC, MARC,
and OAI - The CSDGM to MARC Grant Project,“ Presented with Adam Chandler,
Vivek Uppal, October 12, 2001.
• Cortland County GIS Focus Group, “Creating and Managing CSDGM,”
2001.
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ACRL Conference Presentation: “E-Black Studies, Reflections on Content
and Composition,” Denver, Colorado, March 15, 2001.
PUBLICATIONS
• Elaine L. Westbrooks and Robert H. W. Wolfe (Editors) Metadata Fundamentals, Chicago: ALA, 2008. Forthcoming
• Elaine L. Westbrooks. Black Studies and Culture on the WWW: A Guide to the Very Best Websites. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2008. Forthcoming
• Elaine L. Westbrooks and Keith G. Jenkins. Metadata and Digital Collections: A Festschrift in Honor of Thomas P. Turner, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Libraries, 2008. Forthcoming
• Elaine L. Westbrooks. “Metadata Was: Memory and the Organization
of Digital Information,” in Metadata and Digital Collections: A Festschrift
in Honor of Thomas P. Turner, Ed. by Elaine Westbrooks and Keith Jenkins, Scholarly
Resources, 2008. Forthcoming
• Barbara Lust, Elaine L. Westbrooks, Suzanne Flynn, Theresa Tobin, “Developing Adequate Documentation for Multi-faceted Cross Linguistic Language Acquisition Data,” Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America Symposium on Language Documentation, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2006.
• National Agriculture Library, “Geospatial Resource Control through metadata Management,” Beltsville, MD, May 5, 2005.
• Elaine L Westbrooks. “Remarks on Metadata Management,” OCLC Systems and Services. 21(1), 2005: 5.
• Diane Hillmann and Elaine L. Westbrooks. Metadata
in Practice: Building the Diverse Digital Library, Chicago: ALA, 2004.
• Elaine L. Westbrooks, “Distributing and Synchronizing Heterogeneous
Metadata in Geospatial Information Repositories for Access” in Metadata
in Practice: Building the Diverse Digital Library, Ed. by Diane Hillmann and
Elaine Westbrooks, ALA, 2004.
• Elaine L. Westbrooks, “A Vision of the Future: Cornell University’s
Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR)” in Innovative
Redesign and Reorganization of Library Technical Services: Case Studies
and Paths for the Future. Ed. by Brad Eden, Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
• Adam Chandler and Elaine Westbrooks, “Distributing Non-MARC Metadata:
The CUGIR Metadata Sharing Project,” Library Collections, Acquisitions
& Technical Services, Volume 26, Issue 3, Autumn 2002, pp 207-217.
• “Documentary Resources for African American History on the World
Wide Web,” M.A.C.: Newsletter of the Midwest Archives Conference, 27(3),
Jan 2000: 11-15.
Recipient of the Cornell University Library System Internal Grant Award, 2000-2001,
“Enhancing Access to CUGIR: CSDGM to MARC/Dublin Core Project.”
MEMBERSHIPS & AWARDS
ADDITIONAL TRAINING & LECTURES
EDUCATION
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Bachelor of Arts: Linguistics, 1998
• Masters of Library and Information Science, 1999
Last Updated: 3-04-2008