Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle

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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.

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Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle, edited by Sheila S. Intner and Janet Swan Hill, offers solutions to the problems of recruitment, education and training of cataloging librarians. A series of essays covers 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 response to the changing organization methods that create good library service.-Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science
"Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle, edited by Sheila S. Intner and Janet Swan Hill, offers solutions to the problems of recruitment, education and training of cataloging librarians. A series of essays covers 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 response to the changing organization methods that create good library service."-Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science

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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.