Essential reading: Cataloging and Metadata Education report

I didn't get to read as much as I'd hoped to during the holiday break. One thing I did read that wasn't even on my list was Ingrid Hsieh-Yee's report Cataloging and  Metadata Education: A Proposal for Preparing Cataloging Professionals of the 21st Century [pdf]. (Like the better known Calhoun report its impetus was an action plan that grew out of the Library of Congress's Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium.)

Those of you who are regular readers of this blog know that I have a strong interest in cataloging education (particularly continuing education) and yet this is the first time I've encountered this report originally issued five years ago. So, it's been quietly hovering under the radar in the future of cataloging debate, but deserves to be noticed.

Hsieh-Yee cogently argues for the necessity of all LIS students getting a foundation in cataloging and metadata issues as a prerequisite for understanding information organization in the digital age.

Via Off the Mark

Comments

[Mark]

I love this report! I had a nice discussion with her during one of the poster sessions at ASIS&T this past year and I made sure to to thank Dr. Hsieh-Yee for it.

I sure wish it got even half the attention that the Calhoun report did. :(

That whole conference (BCBC2 as I call it) is an odd duck that I wish I knew much more contextually about. I have read a bit over 1/2 the proceedings so far, and there were several initiatives (besides the Calhoun and Hsieh-Yee report) that came out of it. But there is little that explicitly ties any of it together as a whole. I really wonder if, and if so, how much, of this millennial conference and its aftermath was considered/revisited by the current Working Group.

I would really love to see this report discussed more fully, though. Thanks for pointing it out Christine! It seems more people notice when you point these things out (which is fine with me). :)

[Chris Schwartz]

Thanks, Mark. I bumped into your post when I was trying to see if anyone had blogged about MERIC and I was glad to find this report by Dr. Hsieh-Yee. I know I link to your blog a lot. You read everything!