Iman Dagher has been the Arabic and Islamic Studies Catalog Librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, since June 2008. She participates in the NACO, BIBCO and SACO programs of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), and served as a member of the PCC Policy Committee from 2018 to 2020. Since 2013 she has been the Arabic NACO Funnel cocoordinator. Prior to coming to UCLA, Iman worked for ProQuest, served as head librarian for the Lebanese National Library Rehabilitation Project, and was a librarian at the American University of Beirut. Denise Soufi began her career in 2009 at Princeton University as the Islamic Manuscript Cataloger under a grant-funded project. She is currently the Middle Eastern Cataloger at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she catalogs materials in Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and other Middle Eastern languages. She also works in Special Collections, where she is working on a project to catalog UNC's collection of Renaissance and early modern European manuscripts.
Iman Dagher has been the Arabic and Islamic Studies Catalog Librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, since June 2008. She participates in the NACO, BIBCO and SACO programs of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), and served as a member of the PCC Policy Committee from 2018 to 2020. Since 2013 she has been the Arabic NACO Funnel cocoordinator. Prior to coming to UCLA, Iman worked for ProQuest, served as head librarian for the Lebanese National Library Rehabilitation Project, and was a librarian at the American University of Beirut. Denise Soufi began her career in 2009 at Princeton University as the Islamic Manuscript Cataloger under a grant-funded project. She is currently the Middle Eastern Cataloger at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she catalogs materials in Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and other Middle Eastern languages. She also works in Special Collections, where she is working on a project to catalog UNC's collection of Renaissance and early modern European manuscripts.
The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) conducted a multi-institution Pilot project to contribute metadata to the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) database. In addition to describing the goals, structure, and activities undertaken in the Pilot, this article examines some of the experiences of PCC metadata practitioners as they sought to incorporate ISNIs into their metadata workflows and pursue a wide range of ISNI use cases. Lastly, the article outlines next steps that flowed from the Pilot as the PCC has parlayed its newly developing identity management expertise into additional PCC program explorations.
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