Conversations With Catalogers in the 21st

Cataloging is evolving, not going away. Library and information science faculty accept the fact that the catalog of old is no more while they know that the underlying concepts remain valid and vital to the future of libraries and their staff. An appreciation for how information is derived and structured continues to be critical in order to serve users effectively.

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
AACR2 and RDA
Moving Cataloguing Rules Out of the Library: Goodbye, AACR2?	p. 3
AACR and RDA: One Cataloguer's Reaction	p. 13
RDA, AACR2, and You: What Catalogers Are Thinking	p. 20
Visions: New Ideas for Bibliographic Control and Catalogs
A Systems Librarian's Cataloging Daydream	p. 73
A Question of Identity: The Role of Identifiers in Library Catalogs	p. 95
NF: A New Format for Metadata	p. 104
The Single Shared Catalog Revisited	p. 121
Role of the ILS and How Libraries will Purchase and Maintain Their Systems, Including Information from a Vendor Perspective	p. 137
The Cataloging World in Transition
Catalog and Metadata Librarian: A Foot in Both Worlds	p. 147
Facing a Time of Change	p. 159
Judgment and Imagination: Carrying Cataloging Through Times of Change	p. 169
Cataloger Survival in a Sea of Change and a Surfeit of Acronyms	p. 175
Changing Mind-set, Changing Skill Set: Transitioning from Cataloger to Metadata Librarian	p. 181
Realities of Standards in the Twenty-first Century	p. 188
Cataloging and Metadata Librarians: Research, Education, Training, and Recruitment
The Brick Wall: Attracting People to a Career in Cataloging	p. 209
Blogs and Their Place in the Continuing Education of Catalogers	p. 219
Cataloging/Metadata and Library Science Education Programs for Catalogers and Metadata Specialists: Challenges for the Twenty-first Century	p. 226
Chronological Bibliography of Selected Works Related to Cataloging and Libraries through 1800; and, Selected Bibliography of Library and Cataloging History	p. 255
Afterword	p. 269
Index	p. 275
About the Editor and Contributors	p. 279
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