
Brenna Bychowski
Brenna Bychowski is a Catalog/Metadata Librarian at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, where she creates catalog records for a broad range of print and non-manuscript material, including incunabula, comic books, and, once, a bottle of aftershave. Brenna also works on special metadata and cataloging projects such as the Black Bibliography Project and LD4P (Linked Data for Production), which explores practices and workflows for native linked data cataloging. Brenna is active in the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of ALA; for RBMS, Brenna is co-chair of the Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group, which maintains standardized vocabularies for use in special collections cataloging.