Steve Kelley
Steve Kelley is the Head of Continuing Resources and Database Management and leads a section that includes three staff members. The section is responsible for serials cataloging, serials receipt, binding and marking materials, authority control, and catalog database maintenance. Steve earned his MLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998 and his BA (history, with a Russian minor) from Washington University in St. Louis in 1991. He began working at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library in 2002. Steve was a cataloging librarian at Ball State University from 1999 to 2002. Steve’s professional achievements include being elected in 2013 to a three-year term as Vice President/President/Past President of NASIG, and elected in 2022 to a three-year term as the Vice Chair/Chair/Past Chair of the Metadata & Collections Section of Core, a division of ALA.
Publications
Kelley, Steve. (2017). Recent Developments and Future Directions in RDA. Technicalities, 37(3), 10-13.
McCallum, Carolyn, Gilbertson, Kevin, Kelley, Steve, & Corbett, Lauren. (2017). Can RDA Content, Media, and Carrier Coding Improve Discovery Facet Mapping?. Library Resources & Technical Services, 61(2), 93-101. https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.61n2.93
Kelley, Steve. (2016). The Smaller Library Staff’s Perspective on BIBFRAME. Technicalities, 36(6), 8-11.
Kelley, Steve. (2016). Possible Major Changes Afoot in the World of RDA. Technicalities, 36(3), 14-17.
Kelley, Steve. (2015). Some Advice for Implementing RDA in Your Library. Technicalities, 35(6), 15-18.
Kelley, Steve. (2015). NASIG at 30: New Initiatives, New Directions. Serials Review, 41(3), 143-145.
Kelley, Steve. (2015). Serials: What’s In a Name?. Technicalities, 35(3), 12-15.
Kelley, Steve. (2015). President’s Corner. NASIG Newsletter, 30(2), 1-2.
Kelley, Steve. (2015). President’s Corner. NASIG Newsletter, 30(1), 1-2.
Kelley, Steve. (2014). The Serialization of (Just About) Everything. Technicalities, 34(6), 12-14.
Kelley, Steve. (2014). President’s Corner. NASIG Newsletter, 29(4), 1-2.
Kelley, Steve. (2014). President’s Corner. NASIG Newsletter, 29(3), 1-2.
Kelley, Steve. (2014). RDA and the Future of Machine-Generated Bibliographic Records. Technicalities, 34(3), 10-11, 16-17.
Kelley, Steve. (2013). Serials Catalogers Should Take the Plunge with RDA. Technicalities, 33(6), 11-13.
Kelley, Steve, McCallum, Carolyn, & Lock, Mary Beth. (2012). The Cataloging of E-Book Readers: A Service Model-Oriented Approach. Serials Review, 38(3), 178-182. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098791312000809
Kelley, Steve. (2011). What Is RDA, and Why Should E-Book Managers Care?. No Shelf Required 2: Use and Management of Electronic Books. American Library Association: Chicago, IL.
Book Reviews
Kelley, Steve. (2025) Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library. Technical Services Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Jan. 2025.
Kelley, Steve. (2021). Maximizing the Impact of Comics in Your Library: Graphic Novels, Manga, and More. Technical Services Quarterly, 38(1), 104-105.
Kelley, Steve. (2020). Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries. Technical Services Quarterly, 37(4), 469-470.
Kelley, Steve. (2019). Graphic Novels: A Guide to Comic Books, Manga, and More, 2nd Edition. Michael Pawuk and David S. Sercahy. Technical Services Quarterly, 36(1), 109-110.
Kelley, Steve. (2016). FRBR, BEFORE AND AFTER: A LOOK AT OUR BIBLIOGRAPHIC MODELS. Karen Coyle. Technical Services Quarterly, 33(3), 345-347.
Kelley, Steve. (2015). Subject Access to Information: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Koraljka Golub. Technical Services Quarterly, 32(4), 461-463.
Kelley, Steve. (2014). Kincy, Chamya Pompey, with Sara Shatford Layne. Making the Move to RDA: A Self Study Primer for Catalogers. Technicalities, 34(5), 19-21.
Presentations
Webb, Meghan, & Kelley, Steve. (2019, October). Alienated Superheroes, Feminist Dystopias, and Graphic Memoirs: Comics in the Academic Library. North Carolina Library Association 63rd Biennial Conference, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Kelley, Steve, McCallum, Carolyn, & Gilbertson, Kevin. (2017, March). Can RDA Content, Media, and Carrier Coding Improve Discovery Facet Mapping?. LAUNC-CH Annual Conference, Chapel Hill, NC. http://launcch.web.unc.edu/events/annual-conference/
Committees & Offices Held
ALA Core Metadata & Collections Section Leadership Team, Past-Chair. (July 1, 2024 – Present).
Co-Chair of NASIG Autumn Virtual Conference Committee (2024).
ALA Core Metadata & Collections Section Leadership Team, Chair. (July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024).
NASIG Conference Planning Committee, Member. (May 25, 2023 – May, 2024).
ALA Core Metadata & Collections Section Leadership Team, Vice Chair/Chair-Elect. (July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023).
NASIG Conference Planning Committee, Co-Chair. (June 9, 2022 – May 25, 2023).
ALA Core Metadata & Collections Section Leadership Team, Member of Leadership Team. (July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022).
NASIG Nominations & Elections Committee, Chair. (May 22, 2021 – June 8, 2022).
Core Metadata and Collections Section Transitional Leadership Group, Member of Leadership Group. (November 25, 2020 – June 30, 2021).
ALCTS Continuing Resources Section, Chair. (July 1, 2020 – September 1, 2020).
ALCTS Continuing Resources Section, Vice Chair/Chair-Elect. (July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020).
ALCTS Cataloging and Metadata Management Section: Nominating Committee, Committee Member. (July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020).
American Library Association Presidential Advisory Council, Member of Council. (December 17, 2018 – June 30, 2020).
ALCTS Organization & Bylaws Committee, Member of Committee. (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019).
ALCTS Cataloging and Metadata Management Section: Policy & Planning Committee, Member of Committee. (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019).
ALCTS Continuing Resources Section: Policy & Planning Committee, Member of Committee. (July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2019).
NASIG Program Planning Committee, Member of Committee. (June 11, 2017 – June 12, 2020).
ALCTS Esther J. Piercy Award Jury, Member. (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017).
ALCTS Continuing Resources Section: Nominating Committee, Member of Committee. (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017).
ALCTS Cataloging and Metadata Management Section: Margaret Mann Citation Jury, Chair. (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017).
NASIG Strategic Plan Implementation Task Force, Member of Task Force. (June 12, 2016 – June 11, 2017).
NASIG Program Planning Committee, Chair. (June 12, 2016 – June 11, 2017).
NASIG, Past President. (May 31, 2015 – June 12, 2016).
North American Serials Interest Group, President. (May 4, 2014 – May 31, 2015).
North American Serials Interest Group, Vice President/President-Elect. (June 9, 2013 – May 4, 2014).
ALCTS Edward Swanson Memorial Best of LRTS Award Jury, Member of Award Jury. (July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013).
ALCTS Continuing Resources Section: Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee, Member of Committee. (July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2016).
ALCTS Cataloging and Metadata Management Section: Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access, Voting Member of Committee. (July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2016).
North American Serials Interest Group, Chair of Membership Development Committee. (June 11, 2012 – June 9, 2013).
Planning Committee for the 2013 Entrepreneurial Librarian Conference, Committee Member. (November 01, 2011 – May 17, 2013).
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, Chair of Esther J. Piercy Award Jury. (July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012).
ALCTS Cataloging and Metadata Management Section: Continuing Education Committee, Member of Committee. (July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012).
North American Serials Interest Group, Vice Chair of Membership Development Committee. (June 5, 2011 – June 10, 2012).
North Carolina Library Association, Exhibits Chair of NCLA Conference Planning Committee. (April 1, 2011 – October 7, 2011).
North Carolina Library Association, Store Chair of 2011 NCLA Conference Planning Committee. (October 1, 2010 – April 1, 2011).
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, Member of Esther J. Piercy Award Jury. (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011).
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, Chair of LITA/ALCTS MARC Formats Interest Group. (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011).
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, Member of Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award Jury. (July 2009 – June 2010).
North American Serials Interest Group, Member-at-Large of Executive Board. (June 7, 2009 – June 5, 2011).
North American Serials Interest Group, Co-chair of Conference Planning Committee. (June 2008 – June 2009).