Carolyn Hansen is Metadata Librarian at the University of Cincinnati, where her responsibilities include the creation and management of metadata for physical and digital collections. She is a certified digital archivist, co-chair of the ALCTS/LITA MARC Formats Transition Interest Group, and chair of the Project Hydra Descriptive Metadata Interest Group. Carolyn has presented at international and national conferences about metadata standards and best practices, automated metadata transformations, authority control, and cataloging special formats.