Cataloguing Interviews

This project was set up for a conference paper for the Metadata & Discovery Group Conference in September 2020 - presentation abstract included.

Brief description:

Many library services have reduced in-house expertise in bibliographical cataloguing, in some cases to lone metadata specialist librarians. We are one such small service here in Information Services in Aberystwyth and having been temporally even smaller for six months, we are now in the position to train new cataloguers – one as a permanent part time job-share and two as temporary part time support to tackle our backlog.

This interview project aims to informally document the training process and in so doing, develop an understanding of what librarians new to cataloguing think about metadata and librarianship.

本项目系为2020年9月举办的元数据与发现小组会议（Metadata & Discovery Group Conference）的会议论文而筹备，内含会议演示用摘要。

项目简述：
当前诸多图书馆服务机构的书目编目（bibliographical cataloguing）内部专业能力已大幅缩减，部分机构仅余一名元数据（metadata）专业馆员。阿伯里斯特威斯大学信息服务部便是此类小型服务机构之一，此前半年团队规模甚至进一步缩小，如今已具备培训新任编目人员的条件：拟招聘一名全职兼职轮岗人员，以及两名临时兼职支援人员以处理积压的编目任务。

本采访项目旨在以非正式方式记录本次培训流程，并借此深入理解新任编目馆员对元数据及图书馆事业的认知与看法。