Angela Yon
Cataloging & Metadata Librarian
Office
MLB Milner Library 523
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Research Interests & Areas
resource description and discovery, critical cataloging, linked data, open data, digital humanities and digital scholarship
MS Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
College Research Initiative Award
Milner Library
2022
Grants and Contracts
Evaluating AI-Assisted Summarization for Theses and Dissertations
Emily Baldoni, Angela Yon.
University Research Grant. July 2025 - June 2026
Agency Through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books 1875-1925, the final year of the Step Right Up: Digitizing Over 100 Years of Circus Route Books Project
Angela Yon.
Council of Library & Information Resources. 2020 - 2021
Enhancing Catalog Records with Author Characteristics
Eric Willey, Angela Yon, Sandra K. Roe.
University Research Grant. July 2017 - June 2018
Book, Chapter
Strengthening Person-Centered Management through Mentorship: Building Library Community
Angela Yon, Grace Katharine Allbaugh, Susan Rose Franzen.
(2024), 63-73, Person-Centered Management in Academic Libraries, American Library Association
Journal Article
Collection Data: Sharing, Discovery, Inspiration, and Innovation
Angela Yon.
Art Libraries Journal, 49 (3), 85-94, (2024), https://doi.org/10.1017/alj.2024.12
Contextualizing Performers in Circus Route Books: Linked Data Entities and the Open Data Environment
Angela Yon.
Trends and Issues in Library Technology: Agile project management and summer conference issue, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), (Summer June 2023), 41-52, (2023)
Thinking Outside the Dyad: Incorporating Cohort-Based Experiences into Mentorship
Angela Yon, Grace Katharine Allbaugh, Susan Rose Franzen.
Library Leadership & Management, 37 (2), 24, (2023)
Presentations
Accuracy Matters: Evaluating the Value of AI Tools for Summaries in Metadata
Emily Baldoni, Angela Yon.
Core Forum 2025, Denver, CO, November 13, 2025
Looking Beyond Your Digital Repository: Metadata for Storytelling
Emily Baldoni, Angela Yon, Maddi Loiselle.
CORE Forum 2024, Minneapolis, MN, November 15, 2024
Creating Cards and Carving Pumpkins: How Fun Activities at Work Build Morale, Create Community, and Spark Creativity
Grace Katharine Allbaugh, Susan Rose Franzen, Angela Yon.
Illinois Library Association 2024 Annual Conference: Libraries are Lit: Sparking Innovation and Imagination, Peoria, IL, October 9, 2024
Capturing Hidden Narratives with Metadata and Digital Storytelling
Angela Yon, Emily Baldoni, Maddi Loiselle.
Digital Library Federation (DLF) 2024 Forum, East Lansing, MI, July 30, 2024
Social Teambuilding in an Academic Library: Inspiring a Balance between Work and Play
Grace Katharine Allbaugh, Angela Yon, Susan Rose Franzen.
Academic Library Association of Ohio 2023 Annual Conference: Finding Balance - Hybrid Spaces, New Opportunities and Transformed Missions, Columbus, OH, November 3, 2023
Outsiders in Demand: Chinese and Japanese Circus Performers
Angela Yon.
Circus Historical Society Convention, Normal, IL, August 26, 2023
Collection Data: Sharing, Discovery, Inspiration, and Innovation
Angela Yon.
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Satellite Conference - Art Libraries Section: Big Ideas, Challenging Questions, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 17, 2023
The Heart of a Library: Getting to Know Each Other
Grace Allbaugh, Susan R Franzen, Angela Yon.
Illinois Library Association 2022 Annual Conference: At the Heart of It, Rosemont, IL, October 18, 2022
Contextualizing Performers in Circus Route Books: Linked Data Entities and the Open Data Environment
Angela Yon.
IFLA WLIC 2022 (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions World Library and Information Conference 2022), Dublin, Ireland, July 26, 2022
Shelter in the COVID Storm: Building Relationships through Mentoring
Susan R Franzen, Grace Allbaugh, Sharon Van Der Laan, Angela Yon.
Illinois Library Association 2021 Annual Conference virtual: Breaking Down Barriers, Building Up Communities, Online, October 13, 2021
Be Empowered! Take the ‘Scary’ out of Linked Data
April Karlene Anderson-Zorn, Angela Yon.
Midwest Archives Conference Annual Meeting, Online, May, 2020
Wikipedia and Libraries: Improving Metadata Through Collaboration
Angela Yon, Eric Willey.
OCLC Americas Regional Council Conference 2018: Change the Game, Chicago, IL, October 25, 2018
Wikipedia List of African American Writers and Library of Congress Demographic GroupTerms
Angela Yon.
Leveraging Wikipedia to Help Enrich and Improve Library Practices Panel, New Orleans, LA, June 24, 2018