图书馆编目的衰落与转型

The Declining and Transformation of Library Cataloging

图书馆编目的困境和未来到底是什么?卜书庆在分析我国图书馆信息组织工作社会化和馆藏目录机读化、自动化带来的困境的基础上,认为编目工作应为元数据的编制完善与应用拓展而正确转型。程焕文坚定地认为,MARC面临的不是消亡而是发展。文献编目始终是图书馆特有的核心技术方法,图书馆人应该守护图书馆的专业技术领地。顾犇认为,近十几年来图书馆编目工作经历的工作量化、人员流动和边缘化三次阵痛,导致了图书馆编目工作的衰落;并指出当前存在的问题,如标准尚未与国际接轨且国内也未统一,在技术变革面前尚有惰性,研究有教条化和科研具体化的倾向,产业链变化引发的转型等。胡小菁认为编目工作的衰落将无可挽回,但现阶段编目工作的需求仍然存在,编目部门应基于编目工作的专业性主动面向书刊以外的馆藏资源开拓新领域,编目员也需要将自己的编目技能提高并泛化到广义的元数据领域。

What are the dilemma and future of library cataloging at all? Mrs.Bu presents that the cataloging needs transformation for the perfect formulation and application expanding of metadata,by the analysis of dilemmas drawn by the socialization of information organization and the machine-readable and automation of the library catalog.Mr.Cheng believes confirmedly that what does MARC face with is development and not dying out.Document cataloging has always been the core technique of the library,and librarians should guard this area.Mr.Gu thinks that library cataloging has experienced three labor pains just as work quantified,employee turnover and marginalization in the recent ten years.He points out some existing problems in library cataloging just as follows:the standards have not been internationally compatible and not been unified in our country yet;there is sluggishness when facing with the technology change;the researches show the tendency of dogmatization and concretization;the cataloging is facing with transformation because of the change of industry chain;and so on.Mrs.Hu considers that the decline of cataloging is irreversible,but the need for it is still existing at the present stage.The cataloging department should expand new areas of collection resources beyond the books and periodicals actively based on the specialty of cataloging,and the catalogers also should improve their cataloging skills and expand to the generalized metadata area.