Abby Dover

Abby Dover (she/they) is the Linked Data Librarian at Northwestern University, a position they have held since late 2022. Prior to that, Abby was Head of Cataloging at Southern Methodist University, and has over 15 years of cataloging experience. She holds a Masters of Library Science from the University of North Texas. Abby took part in the creation of the Cataloging Code of Ethics (2021) and the Queer Metadata Collective’s Best Practices for Queer Metadata (2024). She currently serves as a member of the PCC SCT Task Group on Linked Data Training and is co-coordinator of the NACO/SACO Comics and Fiction Funnel. Before entering the library world, she taught English as a Second Language in Japan and Texas, and enjoys bringing that teaching background to her present-day work in helping catalogers learn about linked data.