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19 December 2008 17:28

The Perfect Cataloguer

Melissa Torres has sparked an interesting discussion on AUTOCAT this week, simply by asking “how do you see the skills in the cataloging world changing? What are the skill sets that are needed now as opposed to 5, 10, 15 years ago?” [1] Daniel Read More...
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08 December 2008 22:21

“A bit of a crush now, actually”

… of the professional kind. I’ve never been a fan of Management as a discipline within Information Studies, or of the current vogue for leadership in the public sector - too many buzzwords, too many grey men in grey suits pushing old, hackneyed Read More...
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09 November 2008 23:27

It’s the Network, Stupid

Having worked in the Alcohol and Other Drug sector before moving into more general health librarianship this year, I’ve been interested in the growing literature on network theory within medicine. As a non-clinician, it can be a little bit difficult Read More...
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02 November 2008 21:48

Survey on Authority Control in Libraries

This week on AUTOCAT, Judith Kirk (Western Michigan University Libraries, Kalamazoo) shared the results of her recent informal survey of authority control practice. Although the opt-in sample size was small (12 libraries) and entirely US-based, it included Read More...
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24 October 2008 17:56

Three Strikes and Out?

In a recent article in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Lynne C. Howarth and Jean Weihs provide a history of one of the hottest topics in the RDA draft - the demise of the Rule of Three. Beginning with some historical background on the main Read More...
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