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Discussion Chapter
Professional Identities
Perfectionism
This being seen as negative by senior managers
metadata staff proud to be perfectionists
Adhering to the rules of cataloguing
Juxtaposition between this and fewer rules in customer service
Fastidiousness and attention to detail
Stereotypes of cataloguers
Last bastions of change
Metadata staff rather than cataloguers
Change in perceptions of role
Are these changes recognised by all actors?
No longer custodians of physical collections
Engaging more with end users
Collaborating and pooling knowledge
Intrinsically linked to identity of LIS professionals wanting to help other people to develop and study
Something that comes naturally
Strong capabilities in sharing and preserving knowledge
Cataloguing being seen as an overhead by ebook suppliers
This causing tensions between metadata staff and managers at suppliers
Concerns abut job security
Do managers have our backs?
Differences in communities of practice depending on consortium
Size of consortium being a factor
Facilitation
Streams of communication
Formal group
Starting a group outside of the consortium
Feeling of mutual trust and sharing
Defining a 'gold standard' record
Different institutions having different requirements
Is it achievable
Is fit-for purpose a more realistic target
Need for accuracy and consistency
Suppliers not meeting requirements
Senior managers not necessarily being aware of the varying standard
LCSH seen as gold standard by suppliers
NAG/SUPC report seeing them as essential rather than desirable
Changing perceptions of collections
Just in case vs just in time
Links back in with metadata and brief records
The digital shift
Accelerated by covid
Changes in stewardship
No longer guardians of physical stock
Inside out
More time spent on metadata for special collections
More metadata jobs split between other roles such as open access and digital repository work
Bypassing the library catalogue through Discovery layers/VLEs/Google Scholar
Is cataloguing still needed to the same extent
Deduplicating and automating workflows
Plan M
Restrictive licences
More suppliers now considering this
Could this be incorporated by SUPC
Sharing with the NBK
Triaging records
Programming LMS to check for errors in records
Having a minimum standard for records
Community Zone
Issues with restrictive licences
Being the wild west
Variable quality of records
Records getting overlaid
Still requiring some human intervention to correct errors
Hidden Services
Being back of house
Divide between customer services and metadata staff
Issues with communication and lack of contact often work in separate areas of the library
Suggestion of having training sessions in the metadata department for other library staff
Not being seen by end-users
Going unnoticed unless there's a problem
Trying to make searching as seamless and frictionless as possible
Invisible infrastructures designed to be this way
Heidegger's 'Present in Hand'
Advocating cataloguing
Metadata Matters project
Collaborating with other collective actors
Lobbying suppliers
Notions of Sufficing
A recognition that it is required
No consensus on what it should entail
Senior managers taking a more pragmatic view
Shirking library budgets
Size of e-book packages and the immediacy of them
Ephemeral collections
Changes in the way end-users search for resources
Libraries no longer the first port of call
Good enough
Links to Svenonius principles of description sufficiency and necessity
Suppliers sending out brief records first
Required because of the immediacy of e-books
Are these fit for purpose?
Just-in-time records for just-in-time collection
Essential and desirable field in records
Rules still need to be adhered to