Education and training for cataloguing and classification in the British Isles

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 309-333

  Bowman, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; Cataloguers; Education for cataloguing; Training for cataloguing; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746598652     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v41n03_07     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. CILIP, Accreditation Instrument: procedures for the accreditation of courses. Approved October 1999, revised March 2002 ([London]: CILIP, 2002).
2. A note on terminology here: I shall initially use "Cataloguing" to include classification, though classification will also receive some separate mention. I shall use "library school" as an old-fashioned shorthand term for "institution teaching library or information science or management." I was tempted to use the term "LIS department," but this is sometimes cumbersome and inappropriate. Moreover, most of my respondents used the term "library school," and it was used throughout the special issues of Cataloging & Classification (34, no. 1/2 and 3) that dealt with this topic.
3. See also John Feather, "Whatever Happened to the Library Schools?" Library & Information Update 2, no. 1.0 (Oct. 2003): 40-41.
4. See, for example, Michael Gorman, "Why Teach Cataloguing and Classification," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 34, no. 1/2 (2002): 1-13;
5. Jerry D. Saye, "Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?, or, The changing place of cataloging in the library and information science curriculum: causes and consequences," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 34, no. 1/2 (2002): 121-143.
6. Judith Elkin and Tom Wilson (eds.), The Education of Library and Information Professionals in the United Kingdom (London: Mansell, 1997).
7. Catalogue and Index 148 (summer 2003): 13.
8. CILIP, Accreditation instrument (note 1).
9. CILIP, When information goes wild-take cover or take control! (London: CILIP, 2002). Leaflet.
10. Most respondents wished to remain anonymous, and I have respected their wishes.
11. Loughborough University, Dcpt. of Information Science, Module specification: Information handling. Available at: http://cisinfo.lboro.ac.uk:8081/ci/wr0015.module_spec?select_mod=03ISP402 [accessed 15 Sept. 2003].
12. Information from Peter Lea (e-mail, 1 October 2003).
13. Information from website, at http://www.rgu.ac.uk/prospectus/modules/disp_moduleview.cfm [accessed 17 October 2003].
14. Information from website at http://www.unl.ac.uk/postgradline/ME82P.html and http://www.unl.ac.uk/post.gradline/ME95P.html [accessed 29 September 2003].
15. Information from Nigel Ford, who teaches the module (e-mail, 18 September 2003).
16. "Graduates the Market Needs," Library & Information Update 2, no. 5 (May 2003): 48-50, at p. 50.
17. Information from Mary Jane Steer, who teaches the course (e-mail, 2 October 2003).
18. In relation to cataloguing, see Sheila S. Intner, "Persistent Issues in Cataloging Education: Considering the Past and Looking Toward the Future," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 34, no. 1/2 (2002): 15-29.
19. Information from BDS website, http://www.bibdsl.co.uk [accessed 10 October 2003].
20. Eric J. Hunter, An Introduction to AACR 2: a programmed guide to the second edition of the Anglo-American cataloguing rules, 1988 revision, Rev. ed. (London: Bingley, 1989);
21. J. H. Bowman, Essential Cataloguing (London: Facet, 2003).
22. Personal communication (e-mail, 12 September 2003).
23. German, "Why Teach Cataloguing and Classification?" pp. 2-3.
24. Janet Swan Hill, "What Else Do You Need to Know? Practical skills for catalogers and managers," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 34, no. 1/2 (2002): 245-61, at p. 248.
25. See again Gorman, "Why Teach Cataloguing and Classification?" pp. 10-11.