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Catalogers get to see the library’s most interesting materials and have to figure
out a) what this thing is, b) who might find it useful, and c) how to make sure they find it.
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04 Jul 12
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Though most catalogers don’t have the luxury of reading everything that comes across their desks, it’s
amazing how much you learn through osmosis while figuring out what a book’s about and how to treat
it.
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23 Jun 12
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The
cataloger’s role in the library is to enforce rules that nobody understands and to make things as difficult
as possible for everyone involved. Right? -
it’s not a tedious, never-ending life of rote application of
rules and punctuation. -
There’s a lot more thought involved than deciding
whether to use a colon or a semicolon, and being a good cataloger actually involves a lot of creativity.
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02 Apr 12
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to learn what topics
their faculty and students are working on and then design work flows that will make these materials
available as quickly as possible. He or she has to work with acquisitions staff to answ
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14 Nov 07
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The Whimsy of Cataloging
by Richard A. Murray“I want to be a cataloger.” For a lot of library school students – and many librarians – that seems to be as appealing a statement of career purpose as “I want to be a crash test dummy” or “I want to clean up after the elephants at the circus.” Many students dread their required cataloging class as if it were a root canal. So why would anyone possibly choose to spend their life as a cataloger?
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by Richard A. Murray Article published Feb 2002 LIScareer.com -- The Librarian & Information Professional's Career Development Center
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