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This book offers solutions to the problems of recruitment, education, and training of cataloging librarians. Sheila S. Intner and Janet Swan Hill have compiled a series of informative essays that provide creative solutions on a wide array of issues in the library cataloging field. These include recruitment methods of practitioners for future librarians, training strategies to produce skillful and effective librarians, professional expectations and satisfaction of librarians, impact of library computer systems, and the response to the changing organization methods that create good library service. Cataloging brings to light and proposes solutions to the complex problems inherent to the library profession. Offering encouragement to cataloging and library administrators who are faced with difficult problems in their institutions, this book will have a direct applicability to the modern librarian's needs. It will aid library educators in both the design and improvement of library and information science programs. Cataloging will be an excellent resource for students of library cataloging and library personnel management who require a better understanding of critical issues in contemporary librarianship.

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Author:   Janet Swan Hill ,  Janet Swan Hill ,  Janet Swan Hill
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume:   No 26
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.441kg
ISBN:  

9780313272547

ISBN 10:   0313272549
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   25 March 1991
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction The Challenge of Excellence in Librarianship by Robert M. Hayes Recruiting Cataloging Librarians The Recruitment Muddle: Entrances and Exits by James M. Matarazzo Recruiting: Analyses and Strategies by Liz Boshoff, D. Whitney Coe, Elizabeth Futas, Fay Zipkowitz, Heidi Lee Hoerman, Thomas W. Leonhardt, James G. Neal, and Marion T. Reid Discussion #1 Educating Cataloging Librarians The Fiction and the Reality of the Stereotypes by Jane B. Robbins The Education of Cataloging Librarians by Michael Carpenter, Carolyn O. Frost, Suzanne Hildenbrand, Sheila S. Intner, Beatrice Kovacs, Joseph R. Matthews, and Francis Miksa Discussion #2 Training Cataloging Librarians The Future of Staff Development by Henriette D. Avram On-the-Job-Training: Issues and Answers by Nancy L. Eaton, Michael Fitzgerald, Maureen Sullivan, and D. Kathryn Weintraub Discussion #3 Selected Bibliography Index

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Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle, edited by Sheila S. Intner and Janet Swan Hill, offers solutions to the problems of recruitment, education and training of cataloging librarians. A series of essays covers recruitment methods of practitioners for future librarians, training strategies to produce skillful and effective librarians, professional expectations and satisfaction of librarians, impact of library computer systems and response to the changing organization methods that create good library service. -Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science ?Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle, edited by Sheila S. Intner and Janet Swan Hill, offers solutions to the problems of recruitment, education and training of cataloging librarians. A series of essays covers recruitment methods of practitioners for future librarians, training strategies to produce skillful and effective librarians, professional expectations and satisfaction of librarians, impact of library computer systems and response to the changing organization methods that create good library service.?-Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science

?Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle, edited by Sheila S. Intner and Janet Swan Hill, offers solutions to the problems of recruitment, education and training of cataloging librarians. A series of essays covers recruitment methods of practitioners for future librarians, training strategies to produce skillful and effective librarians, professional expectations and satisfaction of librarians, impact of library computer systems and response to the changing organization methods that create good library service.?-Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science

Author Information

SHEILA S. INTNER is a Professor of Library and Information Science in the Graduate School of Simmons College. She has authored Circulation Policy in Academic, Public, and School Libraries (Greenwood Press, 1987), and co-edited (with Janet Swan Hill) Recruiting, Educating, and Training Cataloging Librarians: Solving the Problems (Greenwood Press, 1989). She has also written numerous articles on librarianship. JANET SWAN HILL is Associate Director for Technical Services in the University of Colorado Libraries, Boulder. She served as Director of Cataloging at Northwestern University and authored Classification of Library Materials. She has also contributed numerous articles to various scholarly and library journals.

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