Treshani Perera (she/her) is the Community Coordinator for Library Initiatives with the Big Ten Academic Alliance. Prior to that she served as the Head of Fine Arts Library Technical Services at the University of Kentucky Libraries (2018-2024). Treshani has over ten years of cataloging and metadata experience working with music, fine arts and architecture, and media collections. As a metadata professional, Treshani has worked with library circulating and special collections, archival collections, and digital collections. Treshani’s ongoing research interests include critical cataloging and inclusive description as well as DEI in higher education and academic libraries. Treshani is a member of OLAC and recently completed a two-year term on the Cataloging Policy Committee (CAPC). She continues to serve OLAC as a member of the Task Force on Unified Best Practices using Official RDA Toolkit.