Authority Control & Production Bios
Candy Riley, MLIS, Manager of Metadata Services
Candy Riley, Manager of Metadata Services, received her MLIS from San Jose State University in 2012. Since she started at MARCIVE in 2011, she has been instrumental in expanding the company’s NACO involvement and currently heads up MARCIVE’s NACO participant section. She has coordinated several large in-house cataloging and authorities projects, providing guidance for staff with complex cataloging questions. She creates training materials and instructs staff on NACO procedures and emerging cataloging guidelines. In addition, she works closely with the development team at MARCIVE to improve current processing and institute new programming as needed as well as any custom programming a library requires.
Candy is a member of the American Library Association and ALA’s Core division. She has been on several ALA and PCC committees, most recently as chair of the ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee. She keeps up-to-date as standards and best practices develop and is active on a number of discussion lists such as PCCLIST, AUTOCAT, RDA-L, OCLC-CAT, MLA-L and MOUG-L.
Lisa Cavalear, MLS, Metadata Librarian
Lisa Cavalear, Metadata Librarian, joined MARCIVE in 2017 and is the point person for authority control projects at MARCIVE, answering questions regarding profile specifications and authority processing as they arise. Lisa received her MLS from Southern Connecticut State University in 2008, but her library work began in 2001 at Yale University Libraries. During her fifteen years with Yale, she served as a cataloging assistant specializing in monographs, serials, and microforms. She was the lead in special projects such as retrospective conversions, database cleanup as part of an ILS migration, and a large scale low-distribution holdings move to off-site storage. She was also responsible for such tasks as quality control for electronic resources and metadata, and doing batch loads from the authority control vendor and OCLC. In her time at Yale, she also served as the Secretary for the Cataloging, Documentation and Policy Committee.
Lisa is a member of the American Library Association. She participates in discussion lists related to the development of standards and best practices such as PCCLIST, AUTOCAT, RDA-L and OCLC-CAT.
