Transcending widgets: The nature of technical services

Library Collections, Acquisition and Technical Services

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 377-391

  Hill, Janet Swan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 0345490630     PISSN: 14649055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lcats.2003.09.011     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Joudrey D.N. 2002 A new look at US graduate courses in bibliographic control. Joudrey's detailed survery covers only cataloging-related courses and general courses in technical services. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 34(1/2), 59-101. For evidence of the paucity of courses in acquisitions and preservation, readers are invited to visit library school websites
2. During my two-decade-long engagement with the topic of education for cataloging and technical services, I have often spoken and written about the presentation of these subjects in library schools. Audiences and readers very frequently respond with "horror stories" about how technical services was portrayed to them by the faculty at their library schools
3. Following the original presentation of this paper, two people from the audience volunteered that they, too, had taken career preference tests that suggested they were well suited to become forest rangers
4. American Library Association. Task force on core values for the profession. (2000). Librarianship and information service. A statement on core values 5th draft. (28 April, 2000). http://www.ala.org/Content/ContentGroups/HRDR/1st_Congress_on_ Professional_Education/1st_Congress_Statement_on_Core_Values.htm
5. The term widget is taken from the 1963 movie, "The Wheeler-Dealers", starring James Garner and Lee Remick. Garner plays a Texas Millionaire who plays at investments for the fun of it. One of the investments essential to the plot is a company named "World Wide Widget, " but both the company and the product were fictitious. At one point, Garner exclaims "Widgets! Why, everyone knows widgets went out with the flying clipper!"
6. Gorman M. (in press, 2003). Cataloging in an Electronic Age. In Electronic cataloging: AACR2 and Metadata. Sheila S. Intner, Sally Tseng and Mary Lynette Larsgaard eds. New York: Haworth Press. Cited from manuscript in press. Gorman presents a compelling overall perspective on the recent rapid evolution of librarianship
7. ALCTS was previously named the Resources and Technical Services Division (RTSD)