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.