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.
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
- Library Binding Survey Project Team
- Metadata Standards
- Preservation Standards and Practices
- Subject Analysis Committee
- Technical Services and Systems
- Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries
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 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
- Newspaper
- Preservation Administration
- Promoting Preservation
- Public Libraries Technical Services
- Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services
- Technical Services Workflow Efficiency