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The website of the Library of Congress has published , a metadata technician with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. In it Miss Andries discusses her work at the library � �capturing and reviewing metadata, or data about data, which renders a resource more searchable by supplying identification information about the resource� � as well as her background, which includes a master�s degree in French from the University of Delaware and a master�s of science in information from the University of Michigan.

She also describes her education at 91����� Aquinas College, and how it prepared her for the complex, detailed-oriented line of work that has become her passion. �The curriculum at 91����� Aquinas was rigorous and interdisciplinary. Every class was taught as a seminar, providing practice in critical thinking, reasoning logically from first principles, and grappling with scientific, literary, and philosophical texts held to have shaped Western thought,� she says. This �foundation in logical reasoning and philosophy� helped, she adds, �with learning about semantics and knowledge organization, object-oriented programming, and analytics.�

Having graduated from Michigan and moved to Washington, D.C., just last year, Miss Andries is still very much a newcomer to the Library of Congress. It is �a place that stirs the imagination,� she says. �It�s the largest library in the world, and you�re guaranteed to find something with regard to any topic you can imagine. It�s a privilege to help with the work of making the Library�s wealth of unique resources accessible to researchers and to the public.�