{"id":3060,"date":"2018-01-30T15:49:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T20:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-clarivate-innovative.pantheonsite.io\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2019-05-29T13:47:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T13:47:49","slug":"accidental-catalogers-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.iii.com\/whats-new\/accidental-catalogers-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Accidental Cataloger\u2019s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This blog post comes from Martha Rice Sanders, Senior Consultant at Innovative<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Consider these scenarios:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You\u2019re the technical services manager at your library and the last cataloger just retired.<\/li>\n<li>You have started a new job that includes cataloging and are learning on the job.<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019ve just been told to take over cataloging for your library. No one else thinks they can do it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do any of those resonate with you? This is happening in lots of libraries, in public, academic, and special libraries alike. Those who have been doing this work for decades have retired or moved up in the organization. Upper management thinks that they don\u2019t \u2018need\u2019 a new professional cataloger. So you must assign this work to someone in your library. Acquisitions is still ordering new titles, both physical and digital, and bibliographic records need to be added to your system. How else can patrons discover them? You\u2019re experiencing the <strong>Accidental Cataloger\u2019s dilemma<\/strong> \u2013what to do?!?!<\/p>\n<p>Innovative to the rescue! I\u2019ve been practicing and explaining the different factors that go into creating bibliographic records (bibliographic description, classification and subject work, MARC and ISBD encoding) for 40 years both as a practitioner, doing cataloging and authority work, and as an instructor, teaching Technical Services in Libraries for a masters in library science program. I love connecting people to these different elements and standards so they may interpret and create bibliographic records with confidence. It\u2019s a bit like speaking five languages at once. But we can tease apart the pieces and learn how to put them back again to create metadata that supports discovery.<\/p>\n<p>As part of Innovative\u2019s \u201cOutside the ILS\u201d offerings, I\u2019ve developed a new bootcamp, <strong>Cataloging Essentials<\/strong>, where participants will learn about the different aspects of bibliographic records, their history and present reality. Bibliographic metadata is changing rapidly to make room for new standards to enable libraries to share their metadata on the greater Web but this can\u2019t happen until we understand what we have now. Interested? <a href=\"https:\/\/bookwhen.com\/innovative\/e\/ev-sn8c-20180301000000\">Sign up<\/a> for the 4-part bootcamp in March.<\/p>\n<p>Want to know more about our Metadata future? Make plans to join our Metadata pre-conference if you are attending IUG. For personal interaction and opportunities for Q&amp;A with an instructor, you can also attend a real-time <a href=\"https:\/\/bookwhen.com\/innovative\/e\/ev-sfsv-20180509000000\">Metadata Bootcamp<\/a> in May, led by me.\u00a0 You may view our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dxBQR0rvfhY\">Metadata Modernization Basics &#8212; Session 1 video<\/a> online or sign up for our *free* <a href=\"https:\/\/bookwhen.com\/innovative\/e\/ev-s81t-20180717000000\">Metadata Management<\/a> Hot Topic webinar sessions in July, led by my colleague, Nannette Naught. We\u2019re excited to work with you to meet your metadata needs from wherever you are right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your last cataloger retired. Now you&#8217;re learning cataloging on the job and taking it over because, frankly, no one else thinks they can do it. 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