Dr. Zavalina studies information organization in libraries and archives: metadata management, quality and change, subject representation, collection-level description, Linked Data applications; language archives’ user needs, etc. She has been developing and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on library cataloging and classification, metadata for digital libraries and archives, information and knowledge organization at both UNT and UIUC where she received Master’s and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Zavalina developed and has been teaching since 2016 a professional development course on metadata and Linked Data for the American Library Association, led two workshops on the future of metadata for the Texas Library Association. Dr. Zavalina co-organized the JCDL 2019 and 2020 workshops on organizing information and knowledge in Big Data environments. She has served on the editorial board of the Library Resources and Technical Services and The Electronic Library and is an active peer reviewer for journals, conference proceedings, edited monographs, and textbooks.