Date:         Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:13:07 -0500
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Subject:      Re: Call for participation: Technical Services Ed. SIG
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Similarly at Dominican University.  And for us, "Organization of Information" is one of the core (required) courses.
 
We have also been working on developing career pathways where a package of courses is suggested for students interested in focusing on Cataloging/Tech Services.  Dr. Gertrude Koh, professor in Dominican's GSLIS, has developed three such sample pathways, listing suggested related cataloging/technical services courses for these packages.  A small committee of us is further developing the document so we are not yet "ready for prime time."
 
I know this is expanding the thread a bit but I was wondering if others of you are doing something similar in developing a career pathway of courses for Cataloging/Tech Services,  and would be willing to share your thoughts. 
 
Cordially,
 
Marjorie 
 
Marjorie E. Bloss, Visiting Instructor
Graduate School of Library & Information Science
Dominican University
7900 West Division Street
River Forest, IL  60305
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From: Discussion List for issues related to cataloging & metadata education & training on behalf of Hur-Li Lee
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It depends on what you meant by a cataloging course.  If you meant broadly a
course covering the characteristics of bibliographic info, cataloging
principles (as part of general principles of info organization), components of
a catalog record (and other bibliographic records), tools used in cataloging
(e.g., bibliographic standards, encoding standards, controlled vocabularies),
and classification theory, then, yes, we do have such a required course at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  After all, many faculty members and
students refer to this course (Organization of Information) as a "cataloging"
course.

Hur-Li Lee