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Darnelle Melvin

Special Collections and Archives Metadata Librarian

  • Unit: Special Collections & Archives
  • Phone: 702-895-2146
  • Email: darnelle.melvin@unlv.edu
  • Mail Stop: 7041

Roles and responsibilities

As the Special Collections & Archives Metadata Librarian, I lead metadata management efforts, design and implement strategies, oversee reconciliation and enhancement activities, and maintain metadata documentation within the division.

Ask me about…

  • Search strategies in the SCA Portal
  • Metadata management
  • Library linked data
  • SQL, SPARQL
  • Database design
  • Data transformations, integration, or reconciliation
  • SCA GIS data

Honors and awards

  • UNLV Libraries McPhee Librarian of the Year Award, 2024
  • BCS Search Industry Awards, Best open-source project, 2023

Service

  • Member, Entity Management Cooperative (EMCO) Early Adopters Phase: Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), February 2025 - Present
  • Chair, Linked Data Advisory Committee: Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), April 2022 - February 2023
  • Chair, Core Metadata Standards Committee: American Library Association (ALA), July 2020 - July 2022
  • Member, Core Interest Group Working Group: American Library Association (ALA), May 2020 - July 2020
  • Partnership Representative, Archives and Special Collections Linked Data Review Group: OCLC Research Library Partnership, October 2019 - April 2020

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