Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle (New Directions in Information Management)

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.

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.