"Authored by cataloging librarians, educators, and information system experts, this book of essays addresses ideas and methods for tackling the modern challenges of cataloging and metadata practices"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Moving cataloguing rules out of the library : goodbye, AACR2? / J. McRee (Mac) Elrod -- AACR and RDA : one cataloguer's reaction / Helen Buhler -- RDA, AACR2, and you : what catalogers are thinking / Elaine R. Sanchez -- A systems librarian's cataloging daydream / Jon Gorman -- A question of identity : the role of identifiers in library catalogs / Ed Jones -- NF : a new format for metadata / Bernhard Eversberg -- The single shared catalog revisited / Martha M. Yee -- Role of the ILS and how libraries will purchase and maintain their systems, including information from a vendor perspective / Scott Piepenburg -- Catalog and metadata librarian : a foot in both worlds / Lynnette M. Fields -- Facing a time of change / Halvard (Hal) Cain -- Judgment and imagination : carrying cataloging through times of change / Jay Weitz -- Cataloger survival in a sea of change and a surfeit of acronyms / John F. Myers -- Changing mind-set, changing skill set : transitioning from cataloger to metadata librarian / Christine Schwartz -- Realities of standards in the twenty-first century / James Weinheimer -- The brick wall : attracting people to a career in cataloging / Janet Swan Hill -- Blogs and their place in the continuing education of catalogers / Jennifer Marie Eustis -- Cataloging/metadata and library science education programs for catalogers and metadata specialists : challenges for the twenty-first century / Sylvia D. Hall-Ellis -- Chronological bibliography of selected works related to cataloging and libraries through 1800 ; and, Selected bibliography of library and cataloging history / Elaine R. Sanchez.

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