Cataloging Electronic Resources and Metadata: Employers' Expectations as Reflected in American Libraries and AutoCAT, 2000-2005

Hall‐Ellis, Sylvia D.

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“…The literature shows dynamic transformations also happening within several areas more internal to librarianship. The role of cataloguing now transcends the catalogue and encompasses other aspects of metadata and bibliographic control (Chapman, 2007;Hall-Ellis, 2006;Park, Lu, & Marion, 2009). The prominence of electronic resources dramatically increased licensing, contract negotiation, and knowledge management functions (Goetsch, 2008).…”

Section: What Librarians Do: Duties and Roles Of Librarians / Value Fmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Towards sustainable partnership: examining cross perceptions of public and technical services academic librarians. Library Resources & Technical Services,61(4),[198][199][200][201][202][203][204][205][206][207][208][209][210][211] Weng , 1966-2006. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 34(4), 322-331. doi: 10.1016/j.acalib.2008.005 Tables Table 1. Comprehensive literature reviews about perceptions of librarians Citation Description Jackson (1999) Summary of historical perceptions of academic librarians, 1960s-1990s Salinero & Grogg (2005 Longitudinal annotated bibliography, 1986-2004Pagowsky & Rigby (2014 Scholarly monograph with diverse images of information work Table 2.…”

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“…Frederiksen 2005Access services positions, 1977-2004Hall-Ellis (2006 Cataloging and metadata, -2005Kim, Warga, & Moen (2013 Digital curation professionals, Oct 2011-April 2012 Choi & Rasmussen (2009) Digital librarian positions in academic libraries, 1999-2007…”

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Librarian, Faculty, and Student Perceptions of Academic Librarians: Study Introduction and Literature Review

Fagan

Ostermiller

Price

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New Review of Academic Librarianship

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A survey concerning perceptions of academic librarians was conducted at a large, 4-year university with three populations: librarians, faculty, and undergraduate students. The high response rate and the use of an instrument based on previous studies offers the possibility of longitudinal comparison and the identification of relationships between groups within one environment. Results will be presented in a series of articles, beginning with this paper's study introduction and literature review of librarian, faculty, and student perceptions of librarians. Subsequent papers will present results from the three surveys and offer analysis across the three groups. The literature review focused on research studies of U.S. and Canadian academic libraries since 2000 with relevance to these major research questions: perceptions about what librarians know (expertise and skills), what librarians do (role and duties), and what librarians are like (motivations and affective behaviours). Librarians' perceptions of themselves as critically important yet underappreciated seem to have persisted, perhaps because they are the only group to see the university-wide scope of their jobs, whereas, non-librarian faculty and students have a more limited views of the profession. In contrast to previous studies, recent literature suggests that course-integrated information literacy (IL) instruction has increased the visibility of librarians as educators to both faculty and students. The influence of popular media on students' perceptions seems less powerful, opening the door wider for library marketing and branding programs.

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Section: What Librarians Do: Duties and Roles Of Librarians / Value Fmentioning

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“…10 They analyzed the descriptions of jobs, dating from 2003 to 2006, that had titles with the words "metadata, electronic, e-resources, and digital." 11 They discovered that while conventional cataloging tasks and procedures continued to apply and were combined with metadata creation activities, metadata professionals also were required "to be able to adapt to a changing environment and keep abreast of emerging technologies and metadata standards."…”

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The Evolving Role of the Metadata Librarian

Han¹,

Hswe²

2010

Library Resources &Amp; Technical Services

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Metadata librarian positions have been increasing in academic andT he roles and responsibilities of cataloging librarians have evolved alongside changes to both cataloging systems and the resources to which libraries provide access. The appearance of the title "metadata librarian," beginning in the late 1990s, reflects the changing role of cataloging librarians as well as a shift in library resources and technology (e.g., developments in digital library initiatives and information technology (IT) with a concurrent increase in the provision of digital resources).1 While metadata is often defined broadly as "data about data," librarians generally mean descriptive metadata that facilitate discovery and access.2 Thus Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) format records are technically metadata. However, librarians continue to use the term "metadata" to refer to non-MARC descriptive metadata encompassing a variety of standards, schema, and so on. Perhaps because of this ambiguity, the responsibilities and competencies of metadata librarians have yet to be clearly defined, and job descriptions can vary markedly in terms of the requirements and preferred qualifications listed.The purpose of this study was to determine the competencies of metadata librarians in comparison with those of cataloging librarians. The authors sought to answer the following research questions:1. What is the required skill set for a metadata librarian? 2. Has the skill set changed over time, specifically from 2000 through 2008? 3. Has the organizational home for metadata librarians changed over time? 4. What are the differences between metadata librarians and cataloging librarians in terms of competencies and qualifications?

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“…The authors identify a number of issues with an impact on quality including productivity benchmarks (Charbonneau, 2005), outsourcing (Lam, 2005), decline of the number of professional catalogers (those holding a MLIS) (Leysen & Boydston, 2005), and the lack of required cataloging courses in professional preparation programs (Hall-Ellis, 2006). The factors are interrelated.…”

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Cataloging of Original Materials in the 21st Century: Frequency and Preparation Factors

Fuller

2017

Educ. Lib.

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Cataloging and catalogers play an important role in the access to electronic catalogs for users at all levels. Two recent studies investigating the preparation of entry level library media specialists and the frequency they perform original cataloging led to a larger examination of the topic in the context of academic libraries. One factor has been the steady decline in required cataloging courses in ALAaccredited library schools for the past two decades. A second factor is the relative supply of catalogers and how they have been reallocated within the academic library. A third factor is the increasing practice of cataloging outsourcing. Implications of high levels of cataloging by librarians lacking preparation are analyzed. The potential for flawed electronic records being shared and viewed over the Internet has implications for all levels.As the last century ended, the issue of cataloging materials in libraries seemed to be generally settled. Rather than do original cataloging, smaller libraries would purchase electronic records or share cataloging done by expert catalogers in larger libraries to populate their electronic catalogs. If any original cataloging or editing of an electronic record at the local level were to be done, it would be at the copy cataloging level. If a set of data needed to be cleaned up, vendors or data utilities would provide the services to prepare a clean database in electronic format. The approach appeared to be a good match for the abilities and needs of libraries to share electronic data across systems and states.With those procedures in place, fewer schools of library science made cataloging a required course, with the understanding that the basic theory would be included in foundational information retrieval courses. Spillane (1999) reported a decline in required cataloging courses in ALA accredited library schools from being required in 70.2% of the schools in 1986 to 55.4% in 199955.4% in . Saye (2002 verified the trend and the continued drop in his study to 41%. In a review of course offerings in 2006, Fuller identified the percentage of ALA schools requiring a basic cataloging course at 20%. Long-suffering students chose to take other electives rather than cataloging in their preparation program. Union catalogs reduced or laid off cataloging staff responsible for data clean up. As long as librarians could use a standard number to find the appropriate expertly catalogued record, the electronic world would change the approach to preparing new librarians.

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Cataloging Electronic Resources and Metadata: Employers' Expectations as Reflected in American Libraries and AutoCAT, 2000-2005

Cited by 25 publications

References 7 publications

Librarian, Faculty, and Student Perceptions of Academic Librarians: Study Introduction and Literature Review

Librarian, Faculty, and Student Perceptions of Academic Librarians: Study Introduction and Literature Review

The Evolving Role of the Metadata Librarian

Cataloging of Original Materials in the 21st Century: Frequency and Preparation Factors

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