Description
This text offers solutions to the problems of the recruitment, education and training of cataloging librarians. It contains a series of essays that provide creative solutions on a wide array of issues in the library cataloging field. These include recruitment methods, training strategies to produce skillful and effective librarians, professional expectations, the impact of library computer systems and the response to the changing organization methods that create good library service. “Cataloging” also 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 intends to be directly applicable to the modern librarian’s needs.




