Readings
for Week Four: Cataloging
The following readings are available for class participants through
our course
page on Oberlin's Electronic Reserve system (ERes). A password
is required.
Berman, Sanford. Prejudices and antipathies. Jefferson,
N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1993.
Read Preface and Introduction (p. 5-24) and pick an additional
chapter.
Berman has been for years the prophet that no one
wants to hear.
Gorman, Michael. "The Corruption of Cataloging." Library Journal
120, no. 15 (1995): 32-34.
Gorman continues to be a leading spokesperson for
cataloging, and writes here to caution against the dangers of
unlimited outsourcing of library work.
Gorman, Michael. "From
card catalogs to webpacs: celebrating cataloguing in the 20th
century." Talk given at the Library of Congress Bicentennial
Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium, Washington,
DC, November 15th, 2000.
A very quick history of descriptive cataloging.
Mann, Thomas. "Is
Precoordination Unnecessary in LCSH? Are Web Sites More Important
to Catalog than Books? A Reference Librarian's Thoughts on the
Future of Bibliographic Control." Paper prepared for the Library
of Congress Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for
the New Millennium, Washington, DC, November 15th, 2000. (Full
text requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
Mann is a reference librarian who understands and
appreciates cataloging from the user's perspective. Skim the first
ten pages.
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