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Comment on The role of the cataloguer in the 21st century by David Bigwood

David Bigwood — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:33:21 +0000

A good but not inclusive list. One nitch I think some catalogers can fill in the community is making the community have more functional metadata and semantic web sites. The local Little League schedule in HTML changed so is can be imported into Google Calendar. The local birding group that can enhance their Christmas Count list by using a API to pull in pictures and info from another site. Or making a local business site more findable. The skills we have in making data useful and findable should not be shut behind the walls of the library but used to enhance the entire community.

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Comment on Introducing… Cat23 Phase One (An announcement at CIG Conference) by venessa harris

venessa harris — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:17:39 +0000

This sounds amazing, and I will be looking out for this. So pleased to see this new initiative.

Comment on A cataloguer by any other name… by Katie Flanagan

Katie Flanagan — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:42:47 +0000

I was a freelance Library Consultant (= cataloguer), an Inventory Assistant (did lots of cataloguing type work), Deputy College Librarian (50% cataloguing) & now Rare Books & Special Collections Librarian (some cataloguing)!

Comment on A cataloguer by any other name… by Louise Anderson

Louise Anderson — Tue, 29 May 2012 17:05:09 +0000

Hi! Good question! I was Project Cataloguer, and the my role was almost entirely cataloguing with some outreach and rationalisation work. Then I became Catalogue Librarian which still had pretty high cataloguing targets but also more preservation, space planning, teaching, and outreach. Now I am AssistantLibrarian, Modern Collections in recognition of my changed responsibilities and we are getting a new Project Cataloguer

Comment on A cataloguer by any other name… by S Durcan

S Durcan — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:54:22 +0000

I’m a Cataloguing and Metadata Librarian in an academic library. Before that I was an Assistant Cataloguer, but those posts are now titled ‘Library Assistant – Cataloguing’.

Comment on A cataloguer by any other name… by orangeaurochs

orangeaurochs — Tue, 29 May 2012 08:36:40 +0000

I’m Head of Current Cataloguing in an academic library. Our cataloguers are Cataloguers. My boss is Head of Cataloguing Operations (which includes acquisitions and non-current cataloguing). There are other sites and sections of the library where staff also do some cataloguing although cataloguing isn’t part of their job title. There is also the separate repository which deals with non-marc/aacr2 metadata which might count as cataloguing but which doesn’t count as cataloguing, depending on how you look at it: it isn’t called cataloguing here.

Comment on A cataloguer by any other name… by Katrina

Katrina — Tue, 29 May 2012 08:18:42 +0000

My official title is Senior Information Advisor (Bibliographic and Metadata) (bit of a mouthful I know!). My role encompasses both cataloguing and editing work on the Research Repository. I’m not on the “contacts” list for the LRC – might have to consider rectifying that… My job title reflects those of everyone else in that your level comes first and then your department comes after in brackets. The subject teams do a little of the more ‘straightforward’ cataloguing – as most of our stock is shelf-ready, it’s normally the ‘tricky’ stuff that’s left…

Comment on A cataloguer by any other name… by John McManus

John McManus — Mon, 28 May 2012 21:31:54 +0000

My official job title is simply Assistant Librarian although I work full-time as a cataloguer in a legal deposit (and academic) library. This would be true of all my colleagues also. It’s really only the name of the department – Bibliographic Data Management – which identifies what we do.

Comment on A cataloguer by any other name… by Lilian

Lilian — Mon, 28 May 2012 21:07:04 +0000

My job title is Senior Library Assistant (Cataloguing). I mainly do cataloguing – I’m the only person who does it as the main part of their job, but in theory I’m supposed to spend half my time working on the institutional repository – also on the metadata side of things. I also work on the library desk, and do ‘roaming’ around the library and assisting with shelving, and being on working non-cataloguing/metadata-related working groups.