Re: Does cataloging have value?

From: Pile, Joy <pile_at_nyob> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:17:21 -0500 To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

Yes it still has value. In the digital age, well crafted metadata enables search engines to find items. Traditional cataloging is using a set of rules to apply a standardized set of metadata so that people looking fo a specific item, or information about a particular topic can find it.

  Joy Pile
  Reference and Instruction Librarian for Foreign Languages and Music
  110 Storrs Ave.
  Middlebury College
  Middlebury, VT 05753

  pile_at_middlebury.edu
  tel. 802-443-5140
  fax  802-443-2332

-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU]On Behalf Of Shirley Lincicum
Sent: Tue, February 10, 2009 3:12 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [NGC4LIB] Does cataloging have value?

I just got out of a really frustrating meeting with the director of my
library. I'm left wondering, does anybody out there (other than
catalogers) value anything that catalogers do? Or are catalogers the
main thing holding libraries back in this day and age?

Thanks,

Shirley