Rebecca Guenther

Rebecca Guenther has 35 years of experience in national libraries, primarily working on library technology standards related to digital libraries. She started her career at the National Library of Medicine as a cataloger and later moved to the Library of Congress. Most of her professional life was spent at the Library of Congress developing national and international standards related to metadata, including MARC, MODS, PREMIS, METS, and ISO language codes. She is currently living in New York, working remotely part-time for the Library of Congress on PREMIS, the Bibliographic Framework Initiative, and MODS. In addition she teaches metadata as an adjunct professor in NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, at Pratt Institute’s School of Information and Library Science, as well as for other clients. She also consults on metadata issues, most recently developing specifications for the description of web archived resources for the New York Art Resources’ Consortium. She serves as chair of the PREMIS Editorial Committee.