Managing cataloging and the organization of information : philosophies, practices, and challenges at the onset of the 21st century / Ruth C. Carter, editor.

Co-published simultaneously as Cataloging & classification quarterly, volume 30, nos. 1 and 2/3 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: Managing cataloging and the organization of information / Ruth C. Carter -- Preface: Chaos, convenience, and catalogers / Gloriana St. Clair -- Managing cataloging and cataloging operations--2000 and beyond at the Library of Congress / Beacher Wiggins -- The National Library of Canada: organizing information for the new millennium / Liz McKeen, Ingrid Parent -- Defying conventional wisdom: innovation and culture change from down under / Jilleen Chambers, Jennifer Martin, Beverley Reynolds -- Emerging from the bibliographic wilderness: catalogue automation in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford / Peter P. Burnett -- Technical processes and the technological development of the library system in the National Autonomous University of Mexico / Carlos García López -- Role changes: cataloguing, technical services and subject librarianship at the University of Botswana library / Rose Tiny Kgosiemang -- The organization of the cataloguing function at McMaster University / Cheryl Martin -- Classification systems used in Latin American libraries / Filiberto Felipe Martinez Arellano, Orlanda Angelica Yañez Garrido -- Bibliographic access management at Lane Medical Library: fin de millennium experimentation and bruised-edge innovation / Dick R. Miller -- Technical services in twenty-first century special collections / Ellen Crosby -- Cataloging @ 2000: over 100 years of change at the University of Colorado Law Library / Georgia Briscoe, Karen Selden -- Information resource management: transitions and trends in an academic law library / Eloise M. Vondruska -- Exploding out of the MARC box: building new roles for cataloging departments / Judith Ahronheim, Lynn Marko -- Cataloging at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Library / Patricia Banach, Melvin Carlson, Jr. -- Pursuing the three ts: how total quality management, technology, and teams transformed the cataloging department at Penn State / Marie Bednar, Roger Brisson, Judy Hewes -- Flexibility in the management of cataloging / Claire-Lise Bénaud, Elizabeth N. Steinhagen, Sharon A. Moynahan -- Management by action: how we're embracing new cataloging work at Tufts / Lyn Condron -- Cataloging in three academic libraries: operations, trends, and perspectives / Kuang-Hwei (Janet) Lee-Smeltzer -- Cataloging plus: philosophy and practice at a small college library / Y. Mei Mah -- Staff assignments and workflow distribution at the end of the 20th century: where we were, where we are, and what we'll need to be / Jane Padham Ouderkirk -- The end of an era builds new team spirit: team playing at its best / Andrea L. Stamm -- Cataloging at Yale University in 2000: challenges and strategies / Joan Swanekamp.