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What does the future hold for cataloging education? Written by some
of the best-known authors and most innovative thinkers in the
field, including Michael Gorman, Sheila S. Intner, and Jerry D.
Saye, this comprehensive collection examines education for students
and working librarians in cataloging and bibliographic control,
emphasizing history, context, the state of the art at present, and
suggested future directions. A liberal dose of visual aidscharts,
tables, etc.makes accessing the information quick and easy. From
the editor: The education of catalogers has swung pendulum-like
from on-the-job training to graduate education and back again. The
place of cataloging in the library school curriculum has swung from
one of near pre-eminence to one of near extinction, and has begun
to swing back again. The durability of education for cataloging has
swung from 'In getting your degree you will learn everything you
need to know in your career,' to 'You will have to engage in
continuing education throughout your career, beginning virtually as
soon as you have your degree.' Making informed decisions about how
(and how much) cataloging education is to be provided is full of
pitfalls, some of which the profession has fallen into already.
What is needed now is a reconsideration of how education for
cataloging and bibliographic control is provided. Education for
Cataloging and the Organization of Information: Pitfalls and the
Pendulum addresses four main areas: the ways professionals perceive
the place, nature, and necessity of cataloging education; the
professional, demographic, and academic context within which
cataloging education is provided; education regarding special types
of materials and special aspects of cataloging; and alternatives to
traditional modes of education for cataloging, including: distance
education online mentoring Web-based instruction continuing
education training for (and via) cooperative projects the role of
the community of catalogers in the continuing education of those
who provide intellectual access to the world of information and
much more!
What does the future hold for cataloging education? Written by some
of the best-known authors and most innovative thinkers in the
field, including Michael Gorman, Sheila S. Intner, and Jerry D.
Saye, this comprehensive collection examines education for students
and working librarians in cataloging and bibliographic control,
emphasizing history, context, the state of the art at present, and
suggested future directions. A liberal dose of visual aidscharts,
tables, etc.makes accessing the information quick and easy. From
the editor: The education of catalogers has swung pendulum-like
from on-the-job training to graduate education and back again. The
place of cataloging in the library school curriculum has swung from
one of near pre-eminence to one of near extinction, and has begun
to swing back again. The durability of education for cataloging has
swung from 'In getting your degree you will learn everything you
need to know in your career,' to 'You will have to engage in
continuing education throughout your career, beginning virtually as
soon as you have your degree.' Making informed decisions about how
(and how much) cataloging education is to be provided is full of
pitfalls, some of which the profession has fallen into already.
What is needed now is a reconsideration of how education for
cataloging and bibliographic control is provided. Education for
Cataloging and the Organization of Information: Pitfalls and the
Pendulum addresses four main areas: the ways professionals perceive
the place, nature, and necessity of cataloging education; the
professional, demographic, and academic context within which
cataloging education is provided; education regarding special types
of materials and special aspects of cataloging; and alternatives to
traditional modes of education for cataloging, including: distance
education online mentoring Web-based instruction continuing
education training for (and via) cooperative projects the role of
the community of catalogers in the continuing education of those
who provide intellectual access to the world of information and
much more!
This book offers solutions to the problems of recruitment,
education, and training of cataloging librarians. Sheila S. Intner
and Janet Swan Hill have compiled a series of informative essays
that provide creative solutions on a wide array of issues in the
library cataloging field. These include recruitment methods of
practitioners for future librarians, training strategies to produce
skillful and effective librarians, professional expectations and
satisfaction of librarians, impact of library computer systems, and
the response to the changing organization methods that create good
library service. Cataloging brings to light and proposes solutions
to the complex problems inherent to the library profession.
Offering encouragement to cataloging and library administrators who
are faced with difficult problems in their institutions, this book
will have a direct applicability to the modern librarian's needs.
It will aid library educators in both the design and improvement of
library and information science programs. Cataloging will be an
excellent resource for students of library cataloging and library
personnel management who require a better understanding of critical
issues in contemporary librarianship.
Librarians entering the profession often shun the prospect of
becoming catalogers because they perceive public service
responsibilities as more rewarding than those of technical
services. This is causing a shortage in the area of technical
services in general and cataloging librarians in particular. A
group of concerned professionals decided to investigate solutions
to the problems, thus, the Simmons College Symposium on Recruiting,
Educating, and Training Cataloging Librarians evolved. The editors
have compiled papers presented at the symposium that propose
solutions to the cataloger shortages. . . . Discussions included
topics such as the evolving public/technical services relationship,
the networking of professional librarians to aid in recruitment,
flexible and creative education programs, and the cross training of
library professionals to handle cataloging. The symposium
participants, which included well-known professionals,
administrators, and educators, encourage increased cataloging
knowledge and involvement to support the automation and
technological challenges facing libraries of today. The papers are
well written and easy to read. Recommended. Library Journal
Developed from a recent symposium, this informative book offers
research-based analyses; it also offers realistic approaches to the
concerns of catalogers and the library educators and administrators
responsible for their recruitment, education, and training. It was
written by more than 25 specialists who have developed solutions to
particular problems within these three areas. Solutions are offered
for a wide range of issues, including increased financial pressure
on libraries, recruiting methods, the changing economic and
professional expectations of librarians, the impact of technology,
challenges for the library science curriculum, and training
strategies for large and small institutions. This book will
encourage library administrators to break new ground in applying
creative solutions to the real-life problems of their institutions.
It will help professional educators in designing or improving
library and information science programs, and give students a
greater understanding of critical issues in contemporary
librarianship.
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