Our community addresses and improves all aspects of acquisitions, cataloging, collections, continuing resources, metadata, preservation, reformatting, and technical services in all types of libraries. Examples of our work include, but are not limited to:
- Sharing best practices and knowledge in work areas that support collections and discovery;
- Identifying best practices for equity, diversity, and inclusion in the development and description of collections;
- Creation and input on standards and best practices for selection, acquisition, description, access, and preservation of information resources;
- Preservation of both print, media, and digital resources.
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See what's happening in the Metadata & Collections Section
Committees
- Leadership Team
- Acquisitions
- Cataloging: Asian and African Materials (CC:AAM)
- Cataloging: Children's and Youth Materials (CC:CYM)
- Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA)
- Continuing Resources Cataloging
- Continuing Resources Holdings Information
- Metadata Standards
- Preservation Standards and Practices
- Subject Analysis Committee
- Technical Services and Systems
- World Languages Acquisitions
Interest Groups
- Authority Control
- Bibliographic Conceptual Models
- Book and Paper
- Cartographic Resources Cataloging (Core/MAGIRT)
- Catalog Form and Function
- Catalog Management
- Cataloging and Classification Research
- Cataloging Norms
- Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research Libraries
- Collection Development Issues for the Practitioner
- Collection Evaluation and Assessment
- Collection Management in Public Libraries
- Competencies and Education for a Career in Cataloging
- Copy Cataloging
- Creative Ideas in Technical Services
- Electronic Resources
- Faceted Subject Access
- MARC Formats Transition
- Metadata
- Preservation Administration
- Promoting Preservation
- Public Libraries Technical Services
- Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services
- Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries
- Technical Services Workflow Efficiency
Awards
Resources
- 2022 Library Binding Survey
- Cataloging Code of Ethics
- Core Competencies for Cataloging and Metadata Professional Librarians (2023)
- Duplicates Exchange Union (DEU)
- Foreign Book Dealers Directory
- Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries
- Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) journal
- Metadata & Collections Section Handbook (PDF)
- Prices of U.S. and Foreign Published Materials
- SAC Holocaust Denial Classification Response (PDF)
- WMS Sandbox for Core Members