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About: Cataloging is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4770 publications have been published within this topic receiving 32489 citations.


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TL;DR: This paper conducted a survey of ARL member libraries to identify the minimum education and experience required of paraprofessional catalogers and found that the educational expectations for copy catalogers are lower than those for original catalogers.
Abstract: The authors conducted a survey of ARL member libraries to identify the minimum education and experience required of paraprofessional catalogers. The majority of surveyed libraries responded that they use paraprofessionals to catalog various types of materials. A higher number of libraries use paraprofessionals in copy cataloging than in original cataloging. Although no single model of education and training for paraprofessional catalogers exists, certain patterns emerge. The educational expectations for copy catalogers are lower than those for original catalogers. Training takes place on the job. The library profession is not as far along in developing structured paraprofessional degree requirements along the same lines as other professions, such as law or medicine.

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TL;DR: This paper reviews library literature on cataloging and classification published in 2005-06 and covers pertinent literature in the following areas: the future of cataloging; Functional Requirement for Bibliographic Records (FRBR); metadata and its applications and relation to Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC); cataloging tools and standards; authority control; and recruitment, training, and the changing role of catalogers.
Abstract: This paper reviews library literature on cataloging and classification published in 2005-06. It covers pertinent literature in the following areas: the future of cataloging; Functional Requirement for Bibliographic Records (FRBR); metadata and its applications and relation to Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC); cataloging tools and standards; authority control; and recruitment, training, and the changing role of catalogers. ********** The literature published in 2005 and 2006 devoted to cataloging and classification reveals a profession in transition. The future of the catalog and cataloging in the Web environment was the focus of severn important discussions, presentations, white papers, reports, conferences, and articles. Another topic attracting attention was the emerging new cataloging standard, Resource Description and Access (RDA). The great importance of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) was emphasized in a number of scholarly publications. Classification schemas, such as the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and the Library of Congress Classification (LCC), continued as a topic in library literature. Other areas of interest included metadata, Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) and the flexibility of Extensible Markup Language (XML), authority control, recruitment, training, and the changing role of catalogers. Research Method A preliminary review of literature on cataloging and classification published in 2005 and 2006 was conducted in two library online databases: Library Literature and Information Science Full Text, and Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstract with Full Text. Other resources, such as the Web-based resources Google Scholar, Google Print, and Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) WorldCat, print library journals, and book reviews in library journals related to cataloging and classification, were also consulted. These resources were searched by keywords or subject headings, or both. The search strategy was limited to journal articles and books in English, and to 2005 through 2006 dates of publication. The search produced a great number of citations (238 items). To deal with the volume of material and the range of topics covered, the author created a spreadsheet of topics derived from the preliminary literature search and the author's knowledge of the current trends in cataloging and classification. The author organized the topics into the following groups: future of cataloging, classification, Library of Congress (LC) series decision, authority control, FRBR, Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2nd ed., 2001 revision (AACB2), RDA, subject headings, DDC, recruitment, training, education, cataloging standards, ISBN13, and metadata. Resulting citations were then entered under each heading in the spreadsheet. Citations under each topic were reviewed to determine if the sources of the publication were scholarly and peer reviewed. In limited cases, the author included non-peer--reviewed sources because they provided valuable and relevant information. Some topics, such as the LC decision about series and ISBN13, were not included because of insufficient scholarly literature. The author read and analyzed the articles and wrote brief reviews for each item. Some articles fell outside the scope of this review and were excluded. The focus of this paper is on substantive contributions to the literature. In a few cases, less significant resources are referenced to provide a context for important themes covered during 2005 and 2006. Some articles may have been omitted unintentionally, for which the author apologizes. The Future of the Catalog and Cataloging The future of libraries in general and of cataloging in particular has been the focus of much of the research in recent years. Speculation about the directions that cataloging is taking, as well as suggestions for ways to revitalize and enhance the catalog and retool the cataloging workforce, filled the pages of many articles and reports in 2005 and 2006. …

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TL;DR: The hypothesis advanced in the present project is that to a considerable degree there is a clearcut right and wrong to LCSH subject heading assignment.
Abstract: Recent papers have called attention to discrepancies in the assignment of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). While philosoohical arguments can be made that subject analysis, if not a logical impossibility, at least is point-of-view dependent subject headings continue to be assigned and continue to be useful. The hypothesis advanced in the present project is that to a considerable degree there is a clearcut right and wrong to LCSH subject heading assignment. To test the hypothesis, it was postulated that the assignment of a subject heading is correct if it is supported by textual warrant (at least 20 percent of the book being calaloged is on the topic) and is constructed in accordance with the Library of Congress Subject Cataloging Manual: Subject Headings. A sample of 100 books on scientific subjects was used to test the hypothesis.

13 citations

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TL;DR: Project Alexandria, one of six National Science Foundation (NSF) digital library initiatives (DLI), has as its objective online access to spatial data in a distributed environment, with search options by areas of interest on a base map or by text, as the user prefers.
Abstract: Project Alexandria, one of six National Science Foundation (NSF) digital library initiatives (DLI), has as its objective online access to spatial data in a distributed environment, with search options by areas of interest on a base map or by text, as the user prefers. The project, which is based at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has partners and participating agencies and libraries throughout the United States. The development of a rapid prototype system began in October 1994 and was completed by the end of February 1995. The testbed system will be operational by late 1997. Map libraries have a reasonably lengthy history of map cataloging; the first map catalog at Harvard University is dated 1831 (Merrett 1976, 3). Extensive employment of map cataloging dates from after World War II, and the practice became especially common with the availability of the USMARC Map format on OCLC. Online shared cataloging brought substantial benefits to map libraries almost immediately by creating and broadening access to cartographic information. Nonetheless, for as long as map cataloging has gone on, it has had as its constant counterpart frustrations known only to the map librarian who, for instance, is asked questions at the map-sheet or air-photo-frame level, but whose collection is cataloged at the map series or flight level (this assumes that the map librarian has cataloging access to remote-sensing imagery in the first place). Over the past two decades air photos have, for several reasons, seldom been cataloged in U.S. map libraries. Air photos held by any given library have tended to be local area photos for which no shared catalog record exists. Cataloging of this material most often requires time-consuming original cataloging, which frequently means that such items will be cataloged last, only after records that derive from shared cataloging or that will be used most heavily in a shared-cataloging environment have been cataloged. Added to the burden of the labor-intensive task of original cataloging is the challenge of describing a graphic object (such as a map) using only text. Even twenty years ago, exasperated rare-map catalogers, buried in USMARC note fields (5XX), were heard to mutter that the best idea was to photograph the map, put the photo in an aperture card with author/title/date/publishing information if any, and be done with it. The Beginnings of Project Alexandria Larry Carver, head of the Map and Imagery Laboratory (MIL) at the University of California, Santa Barbara's (UCSB) Davidson Library, noticed these problems in the late 1960s when he began working with the library's collection (all three map cases and two hundred maps of it). For many years, Carver's focus was developing the collection in the areas of greatest interest to the faculty--remote-sensing imagery and digital data; today, the collection encompasses 5.1 million items. In the mid-1980s, Carver began work on a grant proposal to make spatial data accessible at the sheet/frame level, using a mapsearch interface. The Research Libraries Group (RLG), of which UCSB is a member, became involved in Carver's project and in 1987 the Keck Foundation awarded RLG a grant to produce a design document for such a system (Bloch 1988; RLG 1989). For a variety of reasons, there was no further progress on the matter for several years. ESRI and NSF In the early summer of 1993, Carver met with Jack Dangermond, of the Environmental Research System Institute (ESRI), concerning the possibility of using geographic information systems (GIS), and specifically ESRI's ArcView and Arc/Info GIS softwares, as a method to access spatial data. In one sense, the idea under consideration turned GIS inside-out in that it made use of the attributes for the cataloging fields and the graphic representation for the browse file of the item or (space allowing) the actual spatial data in digital form. At their meeting, an agreement was reached between Carver and Dangermond whereby ESRI would provide software and staff time to work with MIL staff in setting up a prototype. …

13 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202335
2022147
202128
202050
201969
201877