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Transferring Cataloging Legacies Into Descriptive Metadata Creation In Digital Projects: Catalogers’ Perspective, Junli Diao, Mirtha A. Hernández
Transferring Cataloging Legacies Into Descriptive Metadata Creation In Digital Projects: Catalogers’ Perspective, Junli Diao, Mirtha A. Hernández
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With the emergence of digital collections in libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions, catalogers are redefining their roles by participating in digital projects, creating, maintaining, and developing non-traditional metadata records. This article provides a discussion on how catalogers are ensuring that the cataloging legacies of quality control, authority control, and creative cataloging become important components in the creation of descriptive metadata for digital projects.