cataloger
- noun
- /ˈkætəlɒɡər/
- US
- The cataloger organized the new arrivals by genre to help library patrons easily find their favorite books.
- copy catalogers
- library catalogers
- catalogers and metadata
Examples
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Do we want to work together with catalogers, tapping into their expertise and combining it with our own?
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At the other end of the spectrum is UCCS with only one professional cataloger who handles materials in all formats.
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During the analysis, catalogers also maintained a list of specific problems found in individual records.
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Even for sets with critical errors, catalogers found that most could be fixed without excessive effort.
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With an eye to collaborating with catalogers, this can become a reality in many more public libraries.
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According to McCutcheon, guidance in creating local "best practices" is important for copy catalogers.
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Can readers' advisors and catalogers work together to create strong, interactive, and remote readers' services?
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While readers' advisors know our readers, catalogers understand the collection and how to organize it, no matter the format.
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For the purposes of this article, when I refer to backroom staff, I mean catalogers.
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A dilemma for serials catalogers over the years has been the issue of how to treat title changes.
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Synonyms
A person who makes lists of topics to help find things in books or databases
A person who sorts material by quality in a factory
A person who arranges things into groups
A person who labels things with codes to organize them
A person who sorts things into groups, like items or information
A person or machine that sorts things into groups
A person who creates systems to organize digital information for search
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cataloger comes from catalogue, which goes back to Greek parts kata- meaning 'according to' and logos meaning 'word' or 'list'. So a cataloger is someone who makes and organizes written lists of books or items, which is why the word means a person who classifies and arranges things.