Out of all tracks in librarianship, becoming a metadata librarian is not a very common one. This blog post features eight professionals working in the US, reflecting on their paths towards becoming metadata librarians, primarily working with digital object metadata records. Most of us work at a university library or other large institutions with rich digital collections. In this post, you can read about our educational paths, job responsibilities, and a lot of metadata standards jargon – as we love our standards! For more information on each, see the glossary at the end. This blog post is intended to help LIS students and new professionals better understand this path and what it entails.
