What Catalogers Can Do for Your Library: Advocacy for Catalogers’ Skills and Knowledge

Abstract

Catalogers’ role in libraries has been to provide access to library resources by creating catalog records. However, an increasing number of catalogers work outside the realm of catalog records creation in recent years. Targeted for both catalogers and non-catalogers, the presentation first explores how the skills and knowledge catalogers possess can be instrumental in the operations of a variety of library services and initiatives that have evolved recently. Then it provides insight into advocating the value of catalogers in a library, along with a case study of the efforts undertaken by the Cataloging Department of University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library.