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Alternative Names for Cataloging Departments and/or Catalogers

 

 

What Who suggested it / Notes Where When
Book Wranglers Michael Klossner Autocat* 20050811
was once called Resource Acquisitions and Metadata Services. Then they were Resource Services, and now they are a subdivision of Library Computing and Media Services with acquisitions functions reporting on a different line. Anaclare F. Evans, Ph.D. Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 Autocat  
Back when the dot coms were sprouting like mushrooms, I started saving job apps. Titles such as Taxonomy Administrator, Taxonomy Manager, Ontology Manager, and Knowledge Manager were in vogue ... Academe picked up the jargon (though not the $$$), for example: Information architect/ Cataloger Daniel CannCasciato Head of Cataloging Central Washington University Library Autocat  
At the beginning of 2005 we moved from the conjoined name "Circulation and Technical Services" to a broader one "Collection Services." If we were still seeking a name, I rather like "Collection Support Services." Charles T. Kendall Head of Collection Services Alexandrian Public Library Mount Vernon, IN Autocat  
Quite a few years ago, someone with much too much time on their hands, decided that at our library, the Catalog Department's new name would
Bibliographic Access.
Maxine Sherman, Cataloger Cuyahoga County Public Library 2111 Snow Road Parma, Ohio 44134 Autocat  
to show the essential nature of what we do, how about "Bibliographic Access Creation and Control Services"? Joan LoPear UCLA Music Cataloger jlopear@library.ucla.edu Autocat  
We are using Collection Support Services (CSS). For us, it covers Collection Management, Acquisitions, Cataloging and Distribution to the
Margaret Golovey
Technical Services Librarian
Collection Support Services
Hernando County Public Library System
Autocat  
We just made a change in our department's name. We changed it from the Technical Services Department to the Materials Acquisitions and Processing Services (MAaPS) ... they used to call me asked me how to fix their computers since I was the head of the "Technical Services" Department. Judy Siehl Hill, M.A., M.L.S. Head, Materials Acquisitions and Processing Services Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library Autocat 20051104
Metadata Services Department In use. Departmental web site includes document explaining why they changed their name UCSD  
Department of Metadata and Intellectual Access   VTF 20060707
Metadata Production and Consulting Services   VTF 20060707
Metadata Alchemists ( "Alchemy") ??? Departmental Meeting 20060726
Intellectual Information Services Aubrey? Departmental Meeting 20060726
Data Architect ( "Architecture"?)   Departmental Meeting 20060726
"Bibliography" ("Bibliographic control"?) should be in there somewhere SRA? Departmental Meeting 20060726
       
Cataloging and Metadata Services In use Stanford and MIT  
"Cataloging" department plus "Metadata Resources and Services" department In use Cornell  
Metadata and Digital Library Services In use University of Oregon  
Cataloging Services" plus "Center for Digital Initiatives" In use Brown  
"Bibliographic Control Division" divided into departments: "Monographic Processing Services"; "Original Serial & Monograph Cataloging" and "Special Collections and Metadata Cataloging" In use Columbia  
Information Resource Center seeking Library 2.0 developer International University Bremen Post on Web4Lib 10/10/06  
       
       
       

*Douglas Winship offers a technique for retrieving similar Autocat threads from 1993-2000.


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