Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy Committee (PoCo)

PCC Policy Committee Chair, Chair-Elect, and Past Chair

Chair
University of Victoria

Term: Oct. 2025-Sept. 2026

Dean Seeman
Director, Collections and Digital Infrastructure
University of Victoria Libraries
Victoria, BC
Canada
email: [email protected]

Chair-Elect
Pennsylvania State University

Term: Oct. 2025-Sept. 2026

Elizabeth Hobart
Head, Cataloging and Metadata Services
Penn State University Libraries
University Park, PA
United States
email: [email protected]

Past Chair
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Term: Oct. 2025-Sept. 2026

Myung-Ja (MJ) Han
Andrew Turyn Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
United States
email: [email protected]

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Permanent Members of PoCo

The British Library

Adele Lavery
Head of Metadata
The British Library
United Kingdom
email: [email protected]

Library of Congress

Beacher Wiggins
Director, Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate
Library of Congress
Washington, DC
United States
email: [email protected]

Library and Archives Canada

Thi Bao Tran Phan
Manager (Acting), Bibliographic Description Section
Published Heritage Branch
Library and Archives Canada
Ottawa, ON
Canada
email: [email protected]

OCLC

Morag Boyd
Director of Metadata Services, Global Product Management
OCLC
Dublin, OH
United States
email: [email protected]

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Rotating At-Large Members of PoCo

Cornell University

Term: Oct. 2025-Sept. 2028

Steven Folsom
Head of Metadata Design and Operations
Library Technical Services
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
United States
email: [email protected]

Harvard University

Term: Oct. 2025-Sept. 2028

Isabel Quintana
Head of Metadata Creation
Information and Technical Services
Harvard Library
Cambridge, MA
United States
email: [email protected]

New York University

Term: Oct. 2024-Sept. 2027

Charlene Chou
Head of Knowledge Access
Division of Libraries
New York University
New York, NY
United States
email: [email protected]

Pennsylvania State University

Term: Oct. 2024-Sept. 2027

Elizabeth Hobart
Head, Cataloging and Metadata Services
Penn State University Libraries
University Park, PA
United States
email: [email protected]

University of California Los Angeles

Term: Oct. 2023-Sept. 2026

Hermine Vermeij
Team Leader, Subject Specialist Catalogers; Music Cataloger
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
United States
email: [email protected]

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Term: Oct. 2023-Sept. 2026

Myung-Ja (MJ) Han
Andrew Turyn Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
United States
email: [email protected]

University of Minnesota

Term: Oct. 2025-Sept. 2028

Rebecca Ammerman
Metadata Management and Outreach Librarian
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
United States
email: [email protected]

University of Minnesota

Term: Oct. 2023-Sept. 2026

Christine DeZelar-Tiedman
Cataloging Policies and Practices Librarian
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
United States
email: [email protected]

University of Victoria

Term: Oct. 2024-Sept. 2027

Dean Seeman
Director, Collections and Digital Infrastructure
University of Victoria Libraries
Victoria, BC
Canada
email: [email protected]

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PCC Standing Committee Chairs

Standing Committee on Applications

Term: Oct. 2025-Sept. 2028

Tricia Lampron, Co-Chair
Physical Resources Cataloging and Metadata Librarian
UC Irvine Libraries
Irvine, CA
United States
email: [email protected]

Term: Oct. 2025-Sept. 2028

Erica Zhang, Co-Chair
Metadata Librarian for Open Access
UCLA Library
Los Angeles, CA
United States
email: [email protected]

Standing Committee on Membership and Programming

Term: Feb. 2025-Sept. 2028

Mackenzie Smith, Co-Chair
Head, Integrated Library System Management
University of Georgia Libraries
Athens, GA
United States
email: [email protected]

Term: Feb. 2025-Sept. 2027

Mingyan Li, Co-Chair
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
United States
email: [email protected]

Standing Committee on Standards

Term: Oct. 2024-Sept. 2026

Ivan Kaproth-Joslin, Co-Chair
Catalog Librarian
Eastman School of Music
Rochester, New York
United States
email: [email protected]

Term: Oct. 2025-Sept. 2027

Jacquie Samples, Co-Chair
Head, Metadata & Discovery Strategy Department
Collections Services Division
Duke University Libraries
Durham, NC
United States
email: [email protected]

Standing Committee on Training

Term: Oct. 2024-Sept. 2027

May Chan, Co-Chair
Head, Metadata Services
University of Toronto Libraries
Toronto ON
Canada
email: [email protected]

Term: Oct. 2025-Sept. 2028

Jeanette Norris, Co-Chair
Director, Monographic Processing Services
Yale University Library
New Haven, CT
United States
email: [email protected]

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PCC Liaisons

ALA/Core Liaison

Sofia Slutskaya
Head of Resource Description & Russian Studies Librarian
Emory University Libraries
Atlanta, GA
United States
email: [email protected]

CC:DA Liaison (Committee on Cataloging: Description & Access)

William C. (Hank) Young
Principal Cataloger
Resource Description Services Department
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
United States
email: [email protected]

ISNI Library Sector Steering Group Liaison

Michelle Durocher
Head, Metadata Management
Information and Technical Services
Harvard Library
Cambridge, MA
United States
email: [email protected]

ISSN International Centre Liaison

Dr. Gaëlle Béquet
Director, ISSN International Centre
CIEPS
Paris, France
email: [email protected]

MAC Liaison (MARC Advisory Committee)

Tricia Lampron
Physical Resources Cataloging and Metadata Librarian
UC Irvine Libraries
Irvine, CA
United States
email: [email protected] 

ShareVDE Advisory Council Liaison

Melanie Wacker
Head of Digital Resources Metadata
Cataloging & Metadata Services
Columbia University Libraries
New York, NY
United States
email: [email protected]

SkyRiver Liaison

Hope Harley
Product Manager
Innovative (part of Clarivate)
email: [email protected]

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PCC Steering Committee Members

Chair
University of Victoria

Term: Oct. 2025-Sept. 2026

Dean Seeman
Director, Collections and Digital Infrastructure
University of Victoria Libraries
Victoria, BC
Canada
email: [email protected]

Chair-Elect
Pennsylvania State University

Term: Oct. 2025-Sept. 2026

Elizabeth Hobart
Head, Cataloging and Metadata Services
Penn State University Libraries
University Park, PA
United States
email: [email protected]

Past Chair
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Term: Oct. 2025-Sept. 2026

Myung-Ja (MJ) Han
Berthold Family Professor in Information Access and Discovery
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
United States
email: [email protected]

Library of Congress

Beacher Wiggins
Director, Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate
Library of Congress
Washington, DC
United States
email: [email protected]

OCLC

Morag Boyd
Director of Metadata Services, Global Product Management
OCLC
Dublin, OH
United States
email: [email protected]

PCC Secretariat

Clara Liao
Acting Chief, Policy, Training, and Cooperative Programs Division
Library of Congress
Washington, DC
United States
email: [email protected]

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