Leaders Council
Anchalee (Joy) Panigabutra-Roberts
Head of Cataloging and Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Anchalee Panigabutra-Roberts has been at the University of Tennessee Libraries since 2016, first as Head of Cataloging and Metadata and now as Head of Cataloging and Associate Professor. In 2025, the UT Faculty Senate honored her as a "Champion of Discovery" for significant contributions to resource discovery and librarianship. She was previously Head of Cataloging and Metadata at American University in Cairo, Egypt, from 2013 to 2016 and was the Metadata & Multicultural Services Librarian at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) from 2007 to 2013, and served as UNL Women's and Gender Studies' subject librarian and faculty from 2008 to 2013. She has worked in Cataloging, Metadata, and Multicultural Services since 2002. Ms. Panigabutra-Roberts' professional focus areas include cataloging, metadata, and knowledge organization, with special expertise in identity management (integrating researcher identifiers like ORCID into library systems) and in promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in cataloging practices.
Ms. Panigabutra-Roberts serves as a councilor-at-large on the Council of the American Library Association from 2019 to 2028, served on the Executive Board of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association, and on several OCLC advisory groups and working groups. She authored a 2025 study on representing researchers in library linked data (using ORCID identifiers), published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. She presents at major conferences, notably a 2019 talk on Wikidata's role in scholarly communication at the ALA Annual Conference, sharing her insights on innovative cataloging practices. Ms. Panigabutra-Roberts has served on OCLC Councils since 2019.
Member institution
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Tennessee, USA
Term end date: 31 October 2026