Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information: Philosophies, Practices and Challenges at the Onset of the 21st Century

by Carter; Ruth C

• ISBN13: 9780789013125
• ISBN10: 0789013126
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Discover how librarians around the world are responding to the new demands of a fast-changing profession! More computers and fewer staff, more types of resources to catalog and less time in which to study them--these are the problems librarians are facing at the dawn of a new millennium. Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information offers solutions from cataloging and technical services managers around the world. Contributions from Australia, Botswana, Latin America, Canada, and the United States guarantee a truly international perspective. Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information describes new and effective ways to coordinate all aspects of automation, staffing, organization, teamwork, and work flow. These techniques have been tested in libraries ranging from small college libraries to the ancient and revered Bodleian Library and the vast Library of Congress. National libraries, academic libraries, and specialized medical and law libraries are also represented. In Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information, catalogers and technical services managers will find useful suggestions in a number of areas, including: total quality management flexible strategies for cataloging local and remote resources cataloging operations, trends, and perspectives putting cataloging philosophy into practice staff assignments and workflow distribution building team spirit Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information is an invaluable resource for library administrators, catalogers, library educators, technical services managers, and information scientists.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information	xv
Ruth C. Carter
Preface: Chaos, Convenience, and Catalogers	xix
Gloriana St. Clair
NATIONAL LIBRARIES
Managing Cataloging and Cataloging Operations-2000 and Beyond at the Library of Congress	3	(16)
Beacher Wiggins
The National Library of Canada: Organizing Information for the New Millennium	19	(16)
Liz McKeen
Ingrid Parent
LIBRARIES AROUND THE WORLD
Defying Conventional Wisdom: Innovation and Culture Change from Down Under	35	(16)
Jilleen Chambers
Jennifer Martin
Beverley Reynolds
Emerging from the Bibiographic Wilderness: Catalogue Automation in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford	51	(22)
Peter P. Burnett
Technical Processes and the Technological Development of the Library System in the National Autonomous University of Mexico	73	(18)
Carlos Garcia Lopez
Role Changes: Cataloguing, Technical Services and Subject Librarianship at the University of Botswana Library	91	(20)
Rose Tiny Kgosiemang
The Organization of the Cataloguing Function at McMaster University	111	(12)
Cheryl Martin
Classification Systems Used in Latin American Libraries	123	(16)
Filiberto Felipe Martinez Arellano
Orlanda Angelica Yanez Garrido
SPECIALIZED LIBRARIES
Bibiographic Access Management at Lane Medical Library: Fin de Millennium Experimentation and Bruised-Edge Innovation	139	(28)
Dick R. Miller
Technical Services in Twenty-First Century Special Collections	167	(10)
Ellen Crosby
Cataloging @ 2000: Over 100 Years of Change at The University of Colorado Law Library	177	(20)
Georgia Briscoe
Karen Selden
Information Resource Management: Transitions and Trends in an Academic Law Library	197	(20)
Eloise M. Vondruska
ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
Exploding Out of the MARC Box: Building New Roles for Cataloging Departments	217	(10)
Judith Ahronheim
Lynn Marko
Cataloging at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Library	227	(14)
Patricia Banach
Melvin Carlson, Jr
Pursuing the Three Ts: How Total Quality Management, Technology, and Teams Transformed the Cataloging Department at Penn State	241	(40)
Marie Bednar
Roger Brisson
Judy Hewes
Flexibility in the Management of Cataloging	281	(18)
Claire-Lise Benaud
Elizabeth N. Steinhagen
Sharon A. Moynahan
Management by Action: How We're Embracing New Cataloging Work at Tufts	299	(16)
Lyn Condron
Cataloging in Three Academic Libraries: Operations, Trends, and Perspectives	315	(16)
Kuang-Hwei (Janet) Lee-Smeltzer
Cataloging Plus: Philosophy and Practice at a Small College Library	331	(12)
Y. Mei Mah
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	343	(14)
Jane Padham Ouderkirk
The End of an Era Builds New Team Spirit: Team Playing at Its Best	357	(16)
Andrea L. Stamm
Cataloging at Yale University in 2000: Challenges and Strategies	373	(14)
Joan Swanekamp
Index	387