One Practitioner's Perspective on Online Cataloging Education

Abstract

Adjuncts teaching cataloging is becoming increasingly popular in library science programs. This article shares the experience of one practicing cataloger invited to teach an online introductory cataloging course as an adjunct. Curricular decisions and pedagogical methods are among the topics explored in this informal article, with emphases on the benefits of learning cataloging from a practitioner and the importance of teaching the practical aspects of information organization.

KEYWORDS:

• cataloging education
• cataloging curriculum
• catalogers
• adjuncts
• online education

Notes

1. Heidi L. Hoerman, “Why Does Everybody Hate Cataloging,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 34, no. 1/2 (2002): 37.

2. Ibid., 38.

3. Sara Thompson, “Communicating Competences and Collaboration,” Info Outlook 6, no. 9 (2002): 28.

4. Elaine Yontz, “How You Can Help Save Library Education,” American Libraries 34, no. 1 (2003): 42.

5. Shawne Miksa, phone call to instructor, January 6, 2010.

6. Deborah S. Grealy and Sylvia D. Hall-Ellis, From Research to Practice: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in LIS Education (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2009), 80.

7. Grealy and Hall-Ellis, From Research to Practice, 81.

8. Ibid., 80.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

11. Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. 2nd ed. (Chicago: American Library Association, 2002).

12. Jane M. Davis, “A Survey of Cataloging Education: Are Library Schools Listening,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 46, no. 2 (2008): 197.

13. Elaine Yontz, “When Donkeys Fly: Distance Education for Cataloging,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 34, no. 3 (2002): 307.

14. Bruce Mann, “Adding Digitized Speech to Web Courses,” in Perspectives in Web Course Management, ed. Bruce L. Mann (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2000), 138.

15. Coral Mitchell and Jim Kerr, “Integrating Virtual and Traditional Instruction,” in Perspectives in Web Course Management, ed. Bruce L. Mann (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2000), 259.

16. John F. Bauer, “Assessing Student Work from Chatrooms and Bulletin Boards,” in Assessment Strategies for the On-Line Class: From Theory to Practice, ed. Rebecca S. Anderson, John F. Bauer, and Bruce W. Speck (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002), 34.

17. Marshall G. Jones and Stephen W. Harmon, “What Professors Need to Know about Technology to Assess On-Line Student Learning,” in Assessment Strategies for the On-Line Class: From Theory to Practice, ed. Rebecca S. Anderson, John F. Bauer, and Bruce W. Speck (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002), 27.

18. Jones and Harmon, “What Professors Need to Know about Technology to Assess On-Line Student Learning,” 27.

19. Bauer, “Assessing Student Work from Chatrooms and Bulletin Boards,” 32.

20. Yontz, “When Donkeys Fly,” 306.

21. A particular favorite YouTube video is “Bram Stoker's Dracula in FRBR Terms,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0vKCFsXPE

22. Sara Kelly Johns, Alice Yucht, Mindy Miner Holland, Steven Nabinger, and Sharon Elswit, “Pass It Forward: Teaching as an Adjunct,” Knowledge Quest 38, no. 5 (2010), 44.

23. Hoerman, “Why Does Everybody Hate Cataloging,” 39.

24. Johns et al., “Pass It Forward,” 40–45.

25. Ibid., 44.

26. Yontz, “How You Can Help Save Library Education,” 42.

27. Yontz, “When Donkeys Fly,” 306.