cardiCast 95 – Alissa McCulloch and Library Twitter


Hugh speaks with Alissa McCulloch about what it was like to develop a professional identity at the height of “Library Twitter”. What was it that made the experience so intoxicating, and so powerful? What did it do for the Australian library profession? And what dangers were already lurking there, unnoticed?

Alissa is a metadata strategist with responsibility for metadata quality analysis, standards alignment, workflow design, reparative description and data flows beyond the catalogue.

Cataloguing the Universe: a work in progress
@lissertations@ausglam.space

Theme Music by Professor Kliq – ‘Work at night’, sourced from Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence.

Recorded on unceded Wadawurrung and Wurundjeri country.
Edited on unceded Wadawurrung country.