FYI on the current library school requirements at the Univ. of
Wisconsin, Madison: all students are required to take a course
entitled "Organization of Information," which is a rigorous
pre-cataloging course covering such ground as MARC tags and
principles of bibliographic description and various control
vocabularies in use. (Hagler is the textbook, with lots of
readings in Chan.) A second requirement is the student's choice
of either Cataloging or Indexing. Cataloging covers LC and
Dewey cataloging in minute detail.
Having gone through the above relatively recently, I'd say
that a VERY healthy dose of cataloging knowledge is still
required for MLS grads at UW. In practice, most students
I knew took either Cataloging or BOTH Cataloging and Indexing
(designed for, e.g., journal indexers or database organizers
or archivists).
It would be interesting to hear from other current LIS students
or recent grads if there are any out there in ARLIS-Land.
Linda Duychak
Reference ;)
Kohler Art Library
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
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