The University of Miami Libraries are pleased to welcome Melia Jean-Baptiste as the digital initiatives and metadata librarian for the Department of Metadata and Discovery Services, effective September 12, 2022. In this role, Melia is responsible for creating, reviewing, and editing descriptive metadata for digital collections and research assets. She also contributes to the production of descriptive metadata for physical collections and participates in project planning for digital projects and initiatives, including grant work.
Melia comes to the Libraries with internship experience at the Congressional Research Service, the Solar SPELL Digital Library, and the Law Library of Congress. She has worked directly on various metadata projects and is working with multilingual metadata projects and issues surrounding metadata and diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. She looks forward to implementing new technologies to improve the discovery of the Libraries’ collections through metadata work.
Melia Jean-Baptiste can be reached at melia.jean-baptiste@miami.edu.
