1. Introduce yourself (name & position).
Gypsy Moody - Cataloging Librarian at Belmont University College of Law
2. Does your job title actually describe what you do? Why/why not?
It describes only a small portion of what I actually do. At this point, my time is spent doing a lot more metadata management and systems work than strict cataloging. I started in this position over seven years ago, when the law school was founded. My duties have grown, developed and evolved as the library has established itself and needs have arisen that I was able to fill. I have learned Qualtrics to run our student satisfaction surveys, tackled a systems migration and configuration to become the Alma Administrator for the Law Library, and manage all aspects of the Law School collections in the Belmont’s Digital Repository.
3. What are you reading right now?
In my quest to better understand Scholarly Communications, I located the NASIG Core Competencies for Scholarly Communication Librarians and have been trying to find the bottom of the Open Access articles rabbit hole...
4. If you could work in any library (either a type of library or a specific one), what would it be? Why?
I believe being a solo librarian would be a fascinating, challenging and rewarding job. I have been given the opportunity to work in so many facets of librarianship and I think there would be something very poetic about wrapping it all up with a nice bow as a solo librarian at a small art college or museum.
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