Best of Core Forum: Mapping Your Skill Sets: Understanding and Using the Core Competencies for Cataloging & Metadata Professionals

Description: The Core Competencies for Cataloging & Metadata Professional Librarians provides an important framework to assess professional-level cataloging and metadata skills, knowledge, and behavior. This presentation will introduce attendees to the revised (as of 2023) Core Competencies document and discuss ways it can be utilized for professional growth, mentoring, employee evaluation, and curriculum assessment. The presenters will provide instructions and templates for attendees to use to evaluate their own or employees cataloging and metadata proficiency, as well as examples to help attendees better visualize the end product.

This webinar was previously presented in-person as a session at the 2024 Core Forum. We are hosting this webinar, with the session adapted and presented live as a virtual event, to extend its reach.

 Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this session, the attendee will be able to 

• Identify the Core Competencies for Cataloging & Metadata Professional Librarians 
• Discuss the different ways the Core Competencies can be utilized in workplace and educational environments. 
•  Analyze individual competencies in relation to the Core Competencies.

Who Should Attend: Metadata and cataloging librarians

Presenters:

Bobby Bothmann is catalog and metadata librarian at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he catalogs diverse analog and digital resources. He is on the editorial board for Cataloging & Classification Quarterly and actively serves OLAC in leadership roles, including archivist. Bobby holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MS in Geography and English Technical Communication from MSU Mankato. He also teaches cataloging and classification as an adjunct instructor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Karen Snow is a Professor and the Ph.D. Program Director in the School of Information Studies at Dominican University in River Forest, IL. She teaches face-to-face and online in the areas of cataloging, classification, and metadata, and her main areas of research interest are cataloging ethics, competencies, and education. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Snow has published three books with Rowman & Littlefield, A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Classification (2017), A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Subject Headings (2021), and A Practical Guide to Dewey