Supply and demand for catalogers: Present and future

Library Resources and Technical Services

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 250-265

  Leysen, Joan M ^a   Boydston, Jeanne M K ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 28044456514     PISSN: 00242527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/lrts.49n4.250     Document Type: Review

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4. Heidi Lee Hoerman, "Why Does Everybody Hate Cataloging?" Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 34, no. 1/2 (2002): 31-41.
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12. Some of these projects include: Liz Bishoff and William A. Garrison, "Metadata, Cataloging, Digitization, and Retrieval: Who's Doing What to Whom: The Colorado Digitization Project Experience," paper presented at the Library of Congress Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium: Confronting the Challenges of Networked Resources and the Web, Nov. 2000. Accessed Jan. 18, 2005, http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/ bishoff_paper.html;
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17. As examples, see Peter Spyers-Duran, "The Effects of Automation on Organizational Change, Staffing, and Human Relations in Catalog Departments," in Requiem for the Card Catalog: Management Issues in Automated Cataloging, ed. by Daniel Gore, Joseph Kimbrough and Peter Spyers-Duran, New Directions in Librarianship, no. 2 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979): 29-39;
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22. Magda El-Sherbini and George Klim, "Changes in Technical Services and Their Effect on the Role of Catalogers and Staff Education: An Overview," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 24, no. 1/2 (1997): 25.
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25. Roma Harris, "Information Technology and the De-skilling of Librarians; or the Erosion of a Woman's Profession," Computers in Libraries 12, no. 1 (Jan. 1992): 8-15.
26. Hafter, Academic Librarians and Cataloging Networks, 63.
27. Janet Swan Hill, "Transcending Widgets: The Nature of Technical Services," Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services 27, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 377-91.
28. Marilyn Myers, "Who Does What in Acquisitions and Cataloging? Allocation of Duties between Professionals and Paraprofessionals in Library Technical Services: Report of the ALCTS Role of the Professional in Academic Research Technical Services Departments Discussion Group Meeting, American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, San Antonio, January 1996," Technical Services Quarterly 14, no. 2 (1996): 65-67.
29. Peggy Johnson, "Managing Changing Roles: Professional and Paraprofessional Staff in Libraries," Journal of Library Administration 22, no. 2/3 (1996): 79-99.
30. Mary Grenci, "Is Technical Services Being Deprofessionalized?: A Report of the ALCTS Role of the Professional in Academic Technical Services Discussion Group Meeting, American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., June 1998," Technical Services Quarterly 17, no. 2 (1999): 55.
31. Mary Grenci, Technical Services Quarterly Ibid., 52.
32. Sheila S. Intner, "The Re-Professionalization of Cataloging," Technicalities 13, no. 5 (May 1993): 6.
33. Bishoff, "Recruiting, What Next?" 42.
34. Sheila Intner and Janet Swan Hill, eds., Recruiting, Educating, and Training Cataloging Librarians: Solving the Problems, New Directions in Information Management, no. 19 (New York: Greenwood, 1989).
35. Yuan Zhou, "Analysis of Trends in Demand for Computer-Related Skills for Academic Librarians from 1974 to 1994," College & Research Libraries 57, no. 3 (May 1996): 259-72.
36. Zahiruddin Khurshid, "The Impact of Information Technology on Job Requirements and Qualifications for Catalogers," Information Technology and Libraries 22, no. 1 (Mar. 2003): 18-21.
37. Hong Xu, "The Impact of Automation on Job Requirements and Qualifications for Catalogers and Reference Librarians in Academic Libraries," Library Resources & Technical Services 40, no. 1 (Jan. 1996): 9-31.
38. David W. Reser and Anita P. Schuneman, "The Academic Library Job Market: A Content Analysis Comparing Public and Technical Services Positions," College & Research Libraries 53, no. 1 (Jan. 1992): 49-59.
39. Beile and Adams, "Other Duties As Assigned."
40. Abdus Sattar Chaudhry and N. C. Komathi, "Requirements for Cataloging Positions in the Electronic Environment," Technical Services Quarterly 19, no. 1 (2001): 4-5.
41. David Burke, "From Catalogers to Ontologists: Changing Roles and Opportunities for Technical Services Librarians," The Serials Librarian 46, no. 3/4 (2004): 221-26.
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44. Lois Buttlar and Rajinder Garcha, "Catalogers in Academic Libraries: Their Evolving and Expanding Roles," College & Research Libraries 59, no. 4 (1998): 311-21. Ibid.
45. Lois Buttlar and Rajinder Garcha, "Catalogers in Academic Libraries: Their Evolving and Expanding Roles," College & Research Libraries 59, no. 4 (1998): 311-21. Ibid.
46. Association for Library Collection & Technical Services Continuing Education Task Force, "Continuing Education for Catalogers: Summary of Survey Responses," Mar. 2003. Accessed Jan. 18, 2005, http://darkwing. uoregon.edu/~chixson/cetf/surveyresults.html
47. Mary Monson, "A Report of the Meeting of the ALCTS Role of the Professional in Academic Technical Services Discussion Group, American Library Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, June 2002," Technical Services Quarterly 21, no. 1 (2003): 64-68.
48. Christine DeZelar-Tiedman, "ALA Midwinter 2000: Conference Report: ALCTS Role of the Professional in Academic Technical Services Discussion Group," Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services 24, no. 4 (Winter 2000): 482-83.
49. Christine DeZelar-Tiedman, "ALA Midwinter 2000: Conference Report: ALCTS Role of the Professional in Academic Technical Services Discussion Group," Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services 24, no. 4 (2000): 482-83. Ibid.
50. Michael Wright, "Report on the ALCTS Role of the Professional in Academic Technical Services Discussion Group Meeting, American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, San Diego, January 2004," Technical Services Quarterly 22, no. 1 (2004): 61-68.
51. Rebecca L. Mugridge, "Report on the ALCTS Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group Meeting, American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, San Diego, January 2004," Technical Services Quarterly 22, no. 1 (2004): 75-76.
52. As examples, see Norm Medeiros, "Delivering the Goods: Web OPACs and the Expanding Role of the Cataloger," Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Spring 1998. Accessed Jan. 18, 2005, www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/ 98-spring/article3.html. Norman Oder.
53. "Cataloging the Net: Can We Do It?" Library Journal 125, no. 16 (Oct.1, 1998): 47-51;
54. Norman Oder, "Cataloging the Net: Two Years Later," Library Journal 125, no. 16 (Oct. 1, 2000): 50-51.
55. Karen L. Horney, "Taking the Lead: Catalogers Can't be Wallflowers!" Technicalities 15, no. 5 (May 1995): 10.
56. Brian E. C. Schottlaender, "Why Metadata? Why Me? Why Now?" Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 36, no. 3/4 (2003): 19-29.
57. Butterfield, "Cataloged [sic] and the Creation of Metadata Systems"; Simser and Childs, "Revolutionary Relationships."
58. Gloriana St. Clair, "Preface: Chaos, Convenience, and Catalogers," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 30, no. 1 (2000): xix-xxiv.
59. Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, "Cataloging and Metadata Education in North American LIS Programs," Library Resources & Technical Services 48, no. 1 (Jan. 2004): 59-68.
60. Patricia A. Eskoz, "The Catalog Librarian - Change or Status Quo? Results of a Survey of Academic Libraries," Library Resources & Technical Services 34, no. 3 (July 1990): 380-92.
61. Wilder, "Demographic Trends Affecting Professional Technical Services Staffing."
62. Jane Padham Ouderkirk, "Staff Assignments and Workflow Distribution at the End of the 20th Century: Where We Were, Where We Are, and What We'll Need to Be," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 30, no. 2/3 (2000): 346.
63. Kathleen L. Wells, "Hard Times in Technical Services: How Do Academic Libraries Manage? A Survey," Technical Services Quarterly 21, no. 4 (2004): 25.
64. Kathleen L. Wells, "Hard Times in Technical Services: How Do Academic Libraries Manage? A Survey," Technical Services Quarterly 21, no. 4 (2004): 25. Ibid.
65. Kathleen L. Wells, "Hard Times in Technical Services: How Do Academic Libraries Manage? A Survey," Technical Services Quarterly 21, no. 4 (2004): 25. Ibid.
66. Kathleen L. Wells, "Hard Times in Technical Services: How Do Academic Libraries Manage? A Survey," Technical Services Quarterly 21, no. 4 (2004): 25. Ibid.
67. Kathleen L. Wells, "Hard Times in Technical Services: How Do Academic Libraries Manage? A Survey," Technical Services Quarterly 21, no. 4 (2004): 25. Ibid.
68. Kathleen L. Wells, Technical Services Quarterly Ibid., 23.
69. Kathleen L. Wells, Technical Services Quarterly 23. Ibid.
70. "CCS Task Force on Education and Recruitment for Cataloging Report."
71. Association of College & Research Libraries, "Recruitment, Retention, and Restructuring," 14.
72. Wilder, "Demographic Trends Affecting Professional Technical Services Staffing," 53.
73. Hoerman, "Why Does Everybody Hate Cataloging."
74. Evan St. Lifer, "The Boomer Brain Drain: The Last of a Generation?" Library Journal 125, no. 8 (May 1, 2000): 40.
75. Association of College & Research Libraries, "Recruitment, Retention, and Restructuring."
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77. Buttlar and Garcha, "Catalogers in Academic Libraries," 315.
78. Buttlar and Garcha, "Catalogers in Academic Libraries," 315. Ibid.
79. Eskoz, "The Catalog Librarian-Change or Status Quo?"
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81. Buttlar and Garcha, "Catalogers in Academic Libraries."
82. Katherine A. Libby and Dana M. Caudle, "A Survey on the Outsourcing of Cataloging in Academic Libraries," College & Research Libraries 58, no. 6 (Nov. 1997): 550-60.
83. Buttlar and Garcha, "Catalogers in Academic Libraries."
84. For example, Michael German, "The Corruption of Cataloging," Library Journal 120 (Sept. 15, 1995): 32-34.
85. Buttlar and Garcha, "Catalogers in Academic Libraries"; Hosoi, Cataloging Positions in U.S. Academic Libraries.
86. Monson, "A Report of the Meeting of the ALCTS Role of the Professional in Academic Technical Services Discussion Group, American Library Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, June 2002."
87. Mary Grenci, "Library Schools and Education of the Technical Services Professional: A Report of the ALCTS Role of the Professional in Academic Technical Services Discussion Group Meeting, American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Philadelphia, January 1999," Technical Services Quarterly 17, no. 4 (2000): 65-67.
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90. Hsieh-Yee, "Cataloging and Metadata Education."
91. Brad Eden, "Report on the ALCTS Heads of Cataloging Departments Discussion Group, American Library Association Midwinter Conference, Philadelphia, January 2003," Technical Services Quarterly 21, no. 2 (2003): 76-79.
92. Hsieh-Yee, "Cataloging and Metadata Education in North American LIS Programs."