On 20 September 2010, Janet Hill wrote:
> You'd better include technical services folks (catalogers, metadata
> specialists, whatever you want to call them) in your collaborative
> group, since they are the ones who are most intimately acquainted with
> the content ..
"Cataloguers are overlooked and ignored."
It's a fair cop, guv. One of the cataloguers I work with reminded me of
how involved her department had been in the launching of our VuFind
catalogue [1]. They were a crucial part of it.
But in the talk I'm doing we're not talking about implementing a discovery
layer in general, we're focusing on how to use them and build them to
improve information literacy, specifcally ACRL's Information Literacy
Competencies for Higher Education:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm#stan
Granted that of course everyone working together should have the same
overall goals and serve, as best they can in their particular role, the
purposes of the university (in my case) in teaching, learning, and
research. And granted that people working together will talk to each
other, share what they know, collaborate, and shoot the breeze over lunch.
Granted those things, can anyone give me concrete examples of cataloguers
affecting the information literacy program of a library through the
workings of a next-generation catalogue?
This is a genuine question. I would like to hear cases.
Bill
[1] http://www.library.yorku.ca/find/
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Received on Wed Sep 22 2010 - 01:32:13 EDT