Mindy Carner received her undergraduate degree from UC Santa Cruz where she studied literature in Ancient Greek, Latin and Middle Egyptian. During the course of her studies, Mindy became an avid library patron and decided to pursue her MLIS. Though she had planned to become a rare books librarian, fate pushed her toward more modern studies in the application of metadata and taxonomy to information systems, but not before she gained experience in archiving, conservation and preservation. This combination of classical preservation theory with modern metadata gives Mindy an insightful combination of perspectives for modern archival practices.