Table of Contents
Foreword Michael Gorman vii
Introduction Elaine R. Sanchez xi
I AACR2 and RDA
1 Moving Cataloguing Rules Out of the Library: Goodbye, AACR2? J. McRee (Mac) Elrod 3
2 AACR and RDA: One Cataloguer's Reaction Helen Buhler 13
3 RDA, AACR2, and You: What Catalogers Are Thinking Elaine R. Sanchez 20
II Visions: New Ideas for Bibliographic Control and Catalogs
4 A Systems Librarian's Cataloging Daydream Jon Gorman 73
5 A Question of Identity: The Role of Identifiers in Library Catalogs Ed Jones 95
6 NF: A New Format for Metadata Bernhard Eversberg 104
7 The Single Shared Catalog Revisited Martha M. Yee 121
8 Role of the ILS and How Libraries will Purchase and Maintain Their Systems, Including Information from a Vendor Perspective Scott Piepenburg 137
III The Cataloging World in Transition
9 Catalog and Metadata Librarian: A Foot in Both Worlds Lynnette M. Fields 147
10 Facing a Time of Change Halvard (Hal) Cain 159
11 Judgment and Imagination: Carrying Cataloging Through Times of Change Jay Weitz 169
12 Cataloger Survival in a Sea of Change and a Surfeit of Acronyms John F. Myers 175
13 Changing Mind-set, Changing Skill Set: Transitioning from Cataloger to Metadata Librarian Christine Schwartz 181
14 Realities of Standards in the Twenty-first Century James Weinheimer 188
IV Cataloging and Metadata Librarians: Research, Education, Training, and Recruitment
15 The Brick Wall: Attracting People to a Career in Cataloging Janet Swan Hill 209
16 Blogs and Their Place in the Continuing Education of Catalogers Jennifer Marie Eustis 219
17 Cataloging/Metadata and Library Science Education Programs for Catalogers and Metadata Specialists: Challenges for the Twenty-first Century Sylvia D. Hall-Ellis 226
18 Chronological Bibliography of Selected Works Related to Cataloging and Libraries through 1800; and, Selected Bibliography of Library and Cataloging History Elaine R. Sanchez 255
Afterword Sheila S. Intner Susan S. Lazinger 269
Index 275
About the Editor and Contributors 279
