'Data wrangler' for those of us out west.
Steve Shadle/Serials Access Librarian ***** shadle_at_u.washington.edu
University of Washington Libraries *** Phone: (206) 685-3983
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On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Weinheimer Jim wrote:
> Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
>
>> For me, those old terms are not in need of being replaced. It is nothing
>> unusual that old words gradually change their meaning, and I think this
>> has happened over the last decades. The debate about this recurs at
>> least once a year in one of the pertinent forums, and there has never
>> been a result.
>
> I don't know if "cataloger" ever had all that attractive of a meaning in the past, and while its meaning may be evolving now, I don't know if it is in a positive way.
>
> Is "one who helps create a catalog" all that impressive today when fewer and fewer people use catalogs or even understand how they differ from the non-catalogs that they use all the time, such as Google and Yahoo? Unfortunately, this is not just a silly exercise since I do think it is an important topic and one that may inadvertently hem us in at a time when we really must look at the possibilities available to us outside of "catalogs" and "libraries." I have seen "metadata creator" but very few understand "metadata." How about "Knowledge systematizer?" or "Information management professional?"
>
> Of course, most probably none of this will change, but there does seem to be some problems of being called "library cataloger."
>
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Received on Mon Dec 07 2009 - 12:12:10 EST