Cataloging, Training, and Self-learning

You'll want to read Training-wheels culture over on the Caveat Lector blog. Dorothea Salo weighs in on an issue important to the future of cataloging and metadata education. She writes about librarians who are resistant to self-learning--that is, learning by doing.

I emailed Dorothea to let her know that a lot of catalogers responded to Nicole's survey (it was announced on AUTOCAT). So she might have taken a slightly different take if she knew that at the time of writing.

However, her main point is an important one.