The Library is pleased to announce that Rebecca Belford as the new Head of Shared Cataloging and Special Formats Metadata.

Prior to joining Brown, Rebecca was the Music Cataloger/Reference Librarian at the University at Buffalo from 2010-2017, with job duties including music formats cataloging, collection development, reference, and instruction. At UB she also taught music librarianship as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Library and Information Studies. Previously, she was Music Librarian at the University of Oregon.

An active member of the Music OCLC Users Group and the Music Library Association, she has presented and published on music in library discovery tools, music cataloging, collection development, and music librarianship education regionally and nationally.

Rebecca holds an M.A. in Musicology, an M.L.S. from the University at Buffalo, and an A.B. in Philosophy from Vassar College.