Sheila S Intner

Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle Sheila S Intner

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-146) and index. Review Quotes: "Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle, edited by Sheila S. Intner and Janet Swan Hill, offers solutions to the problems of recruitment, education and training of cataloging librarians. A series of essays covers recruitment methods of practitioners for future librarians, training strategies to produce skillful and effective librarians, professional expectations and satisfaction of librarians, impact of library computer systems and response to the changing organization methods that create good library service."-Bulletin of the American Society for Information ScienceReview Quotes: ?Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle, edited by Sheila S. Intner and Janet Swan Hill, offers solutions to the problems of recruitment, education and training of cataloging librarians. A series of essays covers recruitment methods of practitioners for future librarians, training strategies to produce skillful and effective librarians, professional expectations and satisfaction of librarians, impact of library computer systems and response to the changing organization methods that create good library service.?-Bulletin of the American Society for Information SciencePublisher Marketing: This text offers solutions to the problems of the recruitment, education and training of cataloging librarians. It contains a series of essays that provide creative solutions on a wide array of issues in the library cataloging field. These include recruitment methods, training strategies to produce skillful and effective librarians, professional expectations, the impact of library computer systems and the response to the changing organization methods that create good library service.

Contributor Bio:  Intner, Sheila S Sheila S. Intner is professor emerita of the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and was the founding director of its MLIS program at Mount Holyoke College. She teaches cataloging at Rutgers University s School of Communication and Information and the University of Maryland s College of Library and Information Science. In 1989, she was elected an ALA councilor-at-large and president of ALCTS. She has also served as chair of the Cataloging and Classification Section of ALCTS. She has received the Margaret Mann Citation Award, the OLAC Annual Award, the NETSL Annual Award, and the Queens College Distinguished Alumna Award. She has written or edited numerous books, including Cataloging Correctly for Kids, Electronic Cataloging (2003), Metadata and Its Impact on Libraries (2006), and Standard Cataloging for School and Public Libraries (1994, 1998, 2001, and 2007). She joined G. Edward Evans and Jean Weihs in preparing the seventh edition of Introduction to Technical Services (2002) and, with Peggy Johnson, wrote Fundamentals of Technical Services Management (2008).