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| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| 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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