2024/05/27 by Libby Hertenstein · 1 voice
Computer Science · Arts and Humanities · #Library Collection Development and Digital Resources #Digital and Traditional Archives Management #Library Science and Information Systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/07317131.2024.2357012
openalex publication_date 2024/05/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/03/09
The education and training of catalogers has been well documented in library literature.However, this literature has tended to focus on the general cataloger and not special collections or rare books catalogers.This article summarizes the results of a survey of current special collections and rare books catalogers on when they decided to enter this library specialization, what skills they needed to succeed, where they obtained those skills, and their opinions on formal versus informal training.The results have implications for those wishing to become a special collections and/or rare books cataloger, those who are already in the profession and being asked to take on special collections or rare books cataloging duties, and finally those who educate and train future specialist catalogers.