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 Kathy Wisser
Kathy Wisser is the North Carolina Exploring Cultural Heritage
Online Metadata Coordinator at Duke University. She received a BA in History
from Bates College in 1989, completed a MA in History from the University of
New Hampshire in 1997, and an MSLS from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in 2000. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Information
Science at the University of North Carolina, focusing on classification theory.
Wisser
worked in Special Collections departments at the University of New Hampshire
and North Carolina State University. While pursuing her Master’s
degree, she had various assistantships including University of North Carolina’s
Davis Library systems department and for the Association of Library and Information
Science Education. Upon receiving her MSLS, she was a NCSU Libraries Fellow,
where she worked in cataloging and special collections prior to becoming the
NC ECHO Metadata Coordinator.
Since 2000, she has served as a teaching fellow
at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North
Carolina, teaching a required
course on cataloging, the history of libraries, and a special topics course
on archival description. In addition, Wisser taught numerous NC ECHO workshops
on metadata, Encoded Archival Description and related topics throughout the
state of North Carolina. She has served as Chair of the SAA EAD Roundtable
2003-2004 and vice-chair, chair-elect of the SAA Description Section in 2004-2005.
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