Roy Tennant's article, The New Cataloger, is from 2006, but I discovered it only recently. In it he describes what the future tasks of catalogers might look like. In very practical terms he lays out tasks that are very different from what we're doing now:
- Working with a variety of non-MARC metadata
- Working with new cataloging tools
- Harvesting, the automated gathering of metadata
- Normalizing and enriching batches of metadata
- Quality control of automated processes
New formats, new tools, new tasks (yikes, this sound like my new job!)
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