Fairest of Them All? A Long, Hard Look at Technical Services
The Technical Services Mystique
p. 3
Order and Disorder: Learning from Chaos Theory
p. 10
Get Outta Here and ... Get Me Some Money, Too!
p. 15
Circulation, the Third Service
p. 20
Problems at the Main Interface: The Catalog
Cataloging Myths Debunked
p. 27
Problems With the Catalog
p. 34
Functional Inaccessibility in Libraries
p. 39
Dialectic Retrievalism: Looking Closely at the Objects of the Catalog
p. 45
Solutions for Dialectic Retrievalism
p. 50
The Case for AACR3
p. 55
The American Subject Cataloging Rules (ASCR)
p. 61
Subject Heading Terminology
p. 67
The Fiction of Access to Fiction
p. 72
Access to Serials
p. 77
Serials Catalog Records: Image and Reality
p. 82
Modern Serials Cataloging
p. 88
Rocky Road: Relationships Between Technical and Public Services
Ten Good Reasons Why Reference Librarians Would Make Good Catalogers
p. 95
Public Service Librarians and the Catalog
p. 101
A Question of Medium
p. 106
Technical Services-Public Services: The National Networks
p. 112
Library-Produced Indexes
p. 118
The Self-service Library: Implications for Bibliographic Instruction
p. 123
Bibliographic Instruction: An Informal Survey
p. 129
Bibliographic Instruction and the Technical Service Librarian
p. 135
Future Shock: Policies for the New Millennium
Differences Between Access and Ownership
p. 143
Requiem for a Database
p. 148
Copy Cataloging and the Perfect Record Mentality
p. 154
The Education of Copy Catalogers
p. 160
Bibliographic Policies
p. 166
Bibliographic Triage
p. 173
Bibliographic Triage Revisited
p. 178
Nine Steps Toward Better Recruiting for Technical Service Librarians
p. 183
Theory Into Practice: Making the Transition
p. 191
The Age of Access: Emulating the Real World
p. 196
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future
p. 201
Revenge Theory and the Library
p. 206
Rights of Access: Improving Interlibrary Loans
p. 211
Our Electronic Heritage
p. 217
Implications of Cataloging Interactive Media
p. 223
Index
p. 229
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