Recruiting, Educating, and Training Cataloging Librarians

SHEILA S. INTNER is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of Simmons College. Her earlier works include Access to Media: A Guide to Integrating and Computerizing Catalogs, and she has contributed numerous articles and reviews to American Libraries, Library Journal, RQ, and Information Technology and Libraries, among others.JANET SWAN HILL was head of cataloging at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

• Preface Introduction Keynote Address The More Things Change ... Session on Recruiting Cataloging Librarians Session Keynote Address Recruitment: The Way Ahead Recruiting, What Next? Recruitment, a Positive Process Are We Teaching Dinosaurs to Forage: Recruiting Catalogers to the Profession A Network of Professionals Recruiting (In Lieu of a Staff of Professional Recruiters) Recruiting Catalogers: Three Sets of Strategies The Evolving Public/Technical Services Relationship: New Opportunities for Staffing the Cataloging Function Beneath the Stereotyping: Matching Recruitment to Reality Recruiting Catalogers at the Louisiana State University Libraries Session on Educating Cataloging Librarians Session Keynote Address Educating Cataloging Librarians: Its Art and Craft Making Cataloging Interesting Preaching to the Unconverted: The Cataloging Educator's Challenge The Crisis in Cataloging: A Feminist Hypothesis Responding to Change: New Goals and Strategies for Core Cataloging Courses Alternatives for Educating Catalogers: A Small Library School Perspective Using Computers to Enhance Cataloging Productivity Cataloging Education in the Library and Information Science Curriculum Session on Training Cataloging Librarians Session Keynote Address Developing Catalogers for the Nation: Problems and Issues in Training Cataloging Librarians for the Future The Role of Training in the Changing Cataloging Environment Training and Continuing Education for Catalogers: The Electronic Environment of the 1990s Training the Cataloger: A Harvard Experience Standards, Volume, and Trust in the Shared Cataloging Environment: Training Approaches for the Smaller Library Dollars and Sense: Training Catalogers Using Management Tools for Cataloging Discussions Selected Bibliography Index