Abstract

This paper examines library literature concerning the conflict in teaching cataloging, between education for librarianship and training for specific tasks performed in the library. The literature reflects fundamental trends in library education; balance between theory and practice, evolution from apprenticeship to graduate school and the role of cataloging in curricula. It has concerned six issues; practitioners as educators, differentiation of professional duties, centralization and cooperation, development of cataloging codes, technological change and anticipated professional functions. A more profound corollary issue is also addressed. Training prepares for the current environment; education prepares for change. The literature presents a dichotomous view, seeking resolution by balancing mutually exclusive elements. An historical perspective suggests a dialectical paradigm, a process of continuous interaction between opposing forces which produce a synthesis.

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