User:DeborahLeslie
Deborah J. Leslie has been at the Folger Shakespeare Library since 1999; her current title is Senior Cataloger where she is primarily responsible for cataloging early modern printed books and for authority control in the Folger catalog. She is on the faculty of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, where she has taught Rare Book Cataloging at least once a year since 1998; and occasionally, on the faculty of the Australia & New Zealand Rare Book School. She holds BA and MA degrees in history from California State University, Fresno, and Indiana University, respectively, and an MLS from UCLA. Deborah is actively involved with the American Library Association's Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS), including serving as RBMS chair 2009-2010. As chair of its Bibliographic Standards Committee, she headed the writing and publication of Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) in 2007 by the Library of Congress, and is an editor for [https://bsc.rbms.info/ Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (RDA Edition). Her interests include cataloging policy and standards; controlled vocabularies; teaching and training of rare materials catalogers; the making, publishing, selling, and use of early printed books; and early modern British history.