Cataloging

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

Cataloging and Metadata Education: Asserting a Central Role in Information Organization

Abstract: SUMMARY This paper describes challenges in organizing digital resources, the role of cataloging in such an effort, forces that threaten the future of cataloging, and responses from the field. It identifies ten issues for consideration when one designs a future cataloging education program. A model program providing four levels of expertise is presented to illustrate that future cataloging education will have a broader scope, incorporating metadata and various aspects of information organization. The program shows that LIS programs can meet different market demands to cover cataloging and metadata topics adequately to help students and ensure the central role of the profession in future information organization.

Customized metadata for Internet information

Abstract: Several search engines, catalogs, and filtering services aim to help users of the Internet deal with a growing information "overload". However, these tools typically are either generic in scope, or limited to the needs of a particular user without regard for reuse in some related context. We propose an approach and architecture for customized filtering and cataloging which bridges these two extremes. We allow users to create and maintain a metadatabase of information gathered over time by using modular filters created for specific needs or drawn from a standard library. This metadatabase, which may be regarded as a database view of the Internet, can then be accessed to locate information relevant to specific or more generic tasks. Potentially, our approach achieves greater flexibility and specificity as compared to currently available tools. We describe our preliminary design, implementation, and experimentation for our proof of concept prototypical effort.

Why Metadata? Why Me? Why Now?

Abstract: SUMMARY Provides an introductory overview to the subject of metadata, which considers why metadata issues are central to discussions about the evolution of library services-particularly digital library services-and why the cataloging community is, and should be, front and center in those discussions.

Meeting the Needs of Special Format Catalogers: Ideas for Professional Organizations, Library Schools, and Professional Catalogers

Abstract: SUMMARY Catalogers are essential for cataloging and classification of resources in library catalogs to create a resource discovery tool to aid users in their research and public service librarians to assist users. The number of catalogers in libraries has declined in past decades; and many more are on the cusp of retirement, resulting in an impending loss of collective history. Previous literature addressed catalogers in general, the training and recruitment of catalogers, and the expected retirements of librarians in general. The purpose of this study is to assess the specific needs of nonprint or special format catalogers in relation to education, training, and mentorship. A voluntary online survey conducted in 2004 asked questions about special format catalogers' current work, involvement in professional organizations, source of their training, their opinions of library school education, and demographic questions. The survey results indicate nearly half of all special format catalogers will retire with...

Library Management and Emerging Technology: The Immovable Force and the Irresistible Object.

Abstract: SCENARIO: Professor B., a member of the History Department faculty, sits at his PC, located in his departmental office and linked to the campuswide Local Area Network (LAN), to consult the library catalog by scanning the holdings for definitive works in his area of interest. He finds that three items are on the shelf and then he sends a computer message to the library requesting that they be charged out anddelivered to his office. Finding that a fourth item is already charged out to another user, he places a hold on it. He is disturbed to find that two desired books are not in the collection so he files an order request with the acquisitions department. Another book is not in the local catalog, but he is able to switch his request to a national database where he locates the item at Princeton. He then places an interlibrary loan request. He also finds an article in a journal held by the University of Michigan and requests telefacsimile transmission of the article. Without setting foot in the library building, Professor B. has thus perused the holdings of dozens of libraries, has made arrangements to secure desired material, and has received a copy of a pertinent article, all in a matter of minutes. Indeed, he continues by using the library’s online system as a gateway to external full-text databases of interest to him. Libraries and librarians have been involved with automation for decades; the concepts are no longer new, and people now coming into the library profession cannot imagine cataloging books without OCLC or relying only on hardcopy indexes for a reference search. The technologies discussed here are, for the most part, commonplace in mediumsized and large libraries. Technology, once the special preserve of the